Editorial At the height of the pandemic, the Philippine government had to take out loans just to have the available funds for crisis spending. At first glance, there is nothing wrong here — cash is needed to purchase life-saving vaccines, procure medicines for the critically ill, and stock on...
The National Development Company (NDC), the government investment arm attached to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), said it is currently exploring collaborations for potential investments in the establishment of a fill and finish facilities, and eventually bulk vaccine production plants....
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved on third and final reading a measure that would mandate the establishment of a vaccine and virology institute that would lead the country’s defense against public health emergencies like the Covid-19 pandemic. (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) House...
CAMP Marcelo A. Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Almost all policemen in Region 2 or Cagayan Valley have been inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine. DE GUZMAN Col. Jonard de Guzman, chief of the Regional Medical and Dental Unit 2, said 99.93 percent or 14,703 police personnel in the region...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is ready to open its own probe into the reported wastage of 44 million doses of COVID-19 shots and to look into the documents pertaining to the purchase of these vaccines, Senator Francis Tolentino said on Sunday, December 4. Tolentino said also said he supports the...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday, Dec. 2 that Covid-19 vaccine wastage has reached 44 million. Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) In a press conference, DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin, a former Department of Health (DOH) secretary, believes that Covid-19 vaccines wastage in the country is actually worse than what's being reported. Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin In an interview over CNN's The Source on Thursday, Dec. 1, Garin floated...
BEIJING, China -- China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions. Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting...
The refusal of some people to be inoculated against the Covid-19 is the main reason in the expiration of the multi-billion peso worth of vaccines, Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) President Dakila Carlo Cua said on Wednesday, Nov. 23. In an interview with ABS-CBN, Cua said that...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The country’s Covid-19 vaccine wastage is still within the acceptable threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Health (DOH) said on...
A Makabayan lawmaker is up in arms over the reported 31 million doses or P15.6 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines that have gone to waste. Covid-19 vaccines (MANILA BULLETIN) "The government should not take the over 31 million doses of wasted Covid-19 lightly. This wastage is worth an estimated...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday, November 21, said he is in favor of the Commission on Audit (COA) summoning members of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration to shed light on the non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine procurement. As chairman of...
