After months of delay, the country has finally purchased 40 million doses of Pfizer vaccines to boost its efforts in combatting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a landmark move that saw the government's biggest vaccine procurement this year, the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19...
"Relax ka lang (Just relax)." A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a resident in Manila on June 16, 2021 as the inoculation program expanded to cover people belonging to the A5 priority group in the city. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) This was the message of Chief Presidential Legal...
A standard quarantine protocol for Filipinos who are vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) here in the country and in abroad is now being formulated by the technical working group (TWG) of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19. (File Photo/ JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN)...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. was elated with the recent arrival of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that were procured by the private sector, as it will further bulk up the country's jab supply. A total of 1.5 million doses of CoronaVac-Sinovac vaccines from China arrived at NAIA in Pasay...
Additional 1.5 million doses of vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was delivered on Thursday, June 17, as the national government attempts to inoculate millions of Filipinos this year The delivery of 1.5 million doses of Sinovac from China brought to more than nine million the total...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. promised on Wednesday, June 16, that he would allocate more vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mindanao after a lawmaker expressed frustration over the apparent lack of supply despite the surge of cases in the region over the past weeks. Vaccine...
Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III should disclose the prices of COVID-19 vaccines and submit to the Senate Committee of the Whole the supply agreements the Philippines has signed with vaccine manufacturers for scrutiny. Drilon made the call ahead of...
With many of his constituents and even relatives dying of and currently afflicted with the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez slammed national government officials for their alleged slow response to the immediate needs of Mindanao to...
The Philippines received on late Friday night, June 11, a shipment of 100,000 doses of government-procured Sputnik V--the single biggest shipment of the Russian coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to arrive in the country. A total of 100,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia arrive in the...
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...
The insufficiency of vaccines slowed down the immunization program of the national government against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. disclosed Monday night, June 7. Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. bares on June 7, 2021 that the lack of vaccines slowed down the weekly...
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...
