Senate President Vicente Sotto III has urged authorities to rethink their approach in addressing the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly in relying on vaccines to shield the population from the virus. Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Senate PRIB) Sotto believed the government should "change its...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, September 6, said the lifting of immigration bans on 10 countries by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases is ‘’reckless, if premature.’’ Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) Travelers from Bangladesh,...
The Quezon City government on Saturday started inoculating expecting mothers against COVID-19. (QUEZON CITY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE/ MANILA BULLETIN) Pregnant women who are in their second and third trimesters are allowed to be vaccinated. Before the vaccination, they will be checked up...
Labor groups urged the national government to speed up the rollout of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program of workers. (JUAN CARLOS DE VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) In a joint statement, the Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines (MWAP) and the Institute for Occupational Health...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri has praised the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) issuance of an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Moderna vaccines for children aged 12 to 17. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel 'Migz' Zubiri (Albert Calvelo/Senate PRIB) "I want to thank FDA Chief...
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccines that arrived in the Philippines are not included in the batches under investigation in Japan, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assured Friday, Sept. 3. A Manila health worker prepares to administer a single-shot Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus vaccine...
CAVITE - The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here has recorded 16,459 active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases as of 2 p.m. on Friday (September 3), its highest count so far. According to the report from PHO's Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (PESU), Bacoor City tops the local...
Low-cost airline Cebu Pacific said it continues to actively transport COVID-19 vaccines across the country as it brought more than 8.5 million doses to 25 provinces since March this year. (File photo by Cebu Pacific) Alex Reyes, Chief Strategy Officer at Cebu Pacific, said more than 900,000 vaccine...
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) flock at the Matina Town Square in Davao City during the vaccination rollout for OFWs. (Keith Bacongco / MANILA BULLETIN) The country’s vaccine expert panel (VEP) is set to decide next week whether to recommend giving booster shots or a third shot of the...
The United States has delivered an additional 188,370 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Thursday, Sept. 2, as part of its worldwide effort to help the country in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. US Embassy officials join Philippine government officials in...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Britain will send four million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Friday, as his country raced to halt a deadly virus outbreak. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines (AFP) The Australian leader said the planes delivering Pfizer vaccine doses were...
More provinces are now getting their supply of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but concerns were also aplenty if local government units (LGUs) in far-flung and geographically-isolated areas are already prepared to handle this sensitive vaccine. An airport employee...
