Data source: Food and Drug Administration | Pubmat: Manila Bulletin Five months since the country's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination drive started, more than 24 million vaccine doses have already been administered. The Philippines' COVID-19 vaccination drive started last March 1,...
Another huge shipment of Sinovac vaccines--two million doses in all--has arrived in the Philippines on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 12. (Photo from MIAA) The shipment was flown in 5:50 p.m. Thursday at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 by Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight PR 359. The...
(NOEL CELIS / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) The country's vaccine experts are still studying whether it will recommend or not the use of Sinovac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine for children, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. "Our experts are taking a very close look at the data," said...
All patients and their families in the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Dialysis Center located in Port Area, Manila are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). COVID-19 vaccination at the PRC Hemodialysis Center in Port Area, Manila (Photo from Philippine Red Cross) PRC made this...
Vice President Leni Robredo has lauded the national government’s vaccination efforts but stressed the need to administer one million COVID-19 vaccine doses per day amid the new mutations of the coronavirus. Vice President Leni Robredo (FEDERICO CRUZ / MANILA BULLETIN) "That's big. Several months,...
The country will receive delivery of around 2.8 million doses of coronavirus vaccines this week to beef up its vaccination drive amid the surge of COVID-19 cases, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced on Monday, August 9. From a cold storage facility, the COVID-19 vaccines are ready to be...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said there should be no discrimination against travelers who received Chinese-made coronavirus vaccines, saying it was the first brand to be made available. The country's vaccine stockpile reaches 30.9 million with the delivery of one million doses of...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. lauded China’s coronavirus vaccines, dismissing claims of its lower efficacy rate compared to Western-made vaccines and hailing the Asian economic powerhouse for making the vaccines available to developing countries like the Philippines. Foreign...
Bureau of Customs (BOC) personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have facilitated the clearance of the latest batch of Sinovac vaccines to arrive in the country. (Photo from BOC-NAIA) (Photo from BOC-NAIA) One million doses of the anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from...
The country has received an additional one million doses of the anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine CoronaVac, which were transported by Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech on Friday morning, July 30. The country receives an additional one million doses of CoronaVac vaccine against the...
Another one million doses of China-made Sinovac vaccines arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) The life-saving jabs were flown in by Cebu Pacific flight 5J 723 at 7:35 a.m. Friday, July 30. Department of Health (DOH) Secretary...
The country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) will likely come up with “some recommendations” next week on the use of coronavirus disease (COVID) booster shots for those fully vaccinated individuals, particularly the country's healthcare workers and those who are immunocompromised. A staff member...
