The local government of Quezon City is preparing for the pediatric vaccination of minors aged 5-11 against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which is expected to take place in February. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier granted Emergency Use Authorization to Pfizer BioNTech's...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano called on the unvaccinated city residents to get jabbed against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after the city’s confirmed cases reached 1,750. Rubiano said based on the report of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU), 452 new cases were...
Parents of children ages five to 11 years old in Malabon City may pre-register their kids to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the local government announced on Monday, Jan 3. The online registration form is posted on the city's Facebook page:...
Nearly 23,000 minors, aged 12 to 17 years old, have been fully vaccinated in Muntinlupa, the city government announced. As of Dec. 26, the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) and Muntinlupa COVID-19 Vaccination Program (MunCoVac) said 22,836 minors got their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, or...
Residents of Manila who want to have their children, aged five to 11, to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can now pre-register them through Manila’s online vaccine registration facility, Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced on Friday, Dec. 24. During a...
More than seven million individuals age 12- to 17-years-old have acquired protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through vaccination. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. attends the "Talk to the People" public address of President Duterte on Dec. 13, 2021. (Screenshot from RTVM...
Amid the growing threat of the Omicron (B1.1.529) variant, the government is targeting to start vaccinating children age five- to 11-years-old against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in January 2022 while the booster vaccination of economic frontliners (A4) and indigent population (A5) may begin...
Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinovac vaccines are expected to be administered to children ages four to 11 as part of the pediatric vaccination program before the end of 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday, Nov. 23. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "I would think before the end of the...
The Taguig City government has vaccinated more than 22,000 minors aged 12 to 17 years old who are residents or non-residents and are studying in Taguig. Taguig started vaccinating minors on Oct. 25, and as of Nov. 18, a total of 22,112 children have received their first dose based on data provided...
Granting COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for children aged 12 to 17 was not yet discussed, the Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Thursday, Nov. 18. (AFP/MANILA BULLETIN) VEP head Dr. Nina Gloriani said while they have yet to discuss the booster...
More than 1.3 million doses of Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine were delivered at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The shipment carrying 1,353,800 doses of the government-procured jabs arrived via China Airlines flight CI703 around 9: 30 a.m....
Minors aged 12 to 17 years old who received the first dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine have reached more than 9,000. According to the Muntinlupa City government, as of Nov. 11, a total of 9,301 minors with and without comorbidities were vaccinated in Muntinlupa. A minor getting...
