The Bureau of Customs - Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) has cleared the three latest importations of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines totalling 3,074,410 doses, which arrived between June 9 and 10. (Photo from BOC) The first importation consisting of 111,150 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccines arrived...
Over 1.1 million coronavirus disease vaccines have arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in a span of less than 12 hours. (Ariel Fernandez / MANILA BULLETIN) At around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 10, one million doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived at NAIA Terminal 2 on board Cebu...
Around 1,500 barangays in the Philippines have been identified as the focus of the vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the national governments started the inoculation of economic frontliners, or those under the A4 classification. This developed as one million doses of Sinovac...
How did Sinovac become the first vaccine to be available in the Philippines? Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana On June 1, 2021 the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the inclusion of Sinovac (Coronavac) in its COVID-19 vaccine Emergency Use Listing (EUL). The EUL is a list of vaccines reviewed by...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, June 7, welcomed China’s approval on the emergency use of Sinovac’s vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for children. Last week, China has authorized the emergency use of Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccines, CoronaVac, for persons aged...
Cebu Pacific airlines (CEB) carried another batch of one million doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.-manufactured vaccines from Beijing to Manila on Sunday, June 6. (Ariel Fernandez / MANILA BULLETIN) (Ariel Fernandez / MANILA BULLETIN) The vaccines were safely flown in temperature-controlled containers...
The Philippines has received one million more doses of CoronaVac vaccines, which were procured by the national government from Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech. The shipment was loaded on a Cebu Pacific plane via flight 5J671 which fetched the vaccines from Beijing, China. It arrived at Bay 49...
Coronavirus vaccines developed by China's Sinovac (Chinese Embassy in Manila/Twitter) Filipinos have become more receptive in getting the COVID-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac Biotech after it was approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO), an official of the Department...
The first phase study on the real-world effectiveness of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines will kick of at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), the project leader said Thursday, June 3. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Regina Berba, head of PGH's infectious control unit, said the study...
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, welcomed on Wednesday, June 2, the World Health Organization's (WHO) approval of the CoronaVac vaccine made by Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech for emergency use against the...
In this file photograph taken on March 1, 2021, a health worker holds up a vial of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during the first phase of vaccinations for health workers at a hospital in Manila. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN) The World Health Organization (WHO)'s approval on the COVID-19...
Malacañang was happy with the inclusion of the coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac made by Sinovac in the emergency use list (EUL) of the World Health Organization (WHO), saying this would further boost the public's confidence about the shots. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a vial of coronavirus...