US biotech firm Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be 100 percent protective against severe cases of the disease, including hospitalization and death, the company said Thursday following trials. In this file illustration picture shows vials with COVID-19 vaccine stickers attached and syringes...
The business sector is asking the government to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination because they are already in the “last phase,” stressing that adding six months or one year more of quarantine would mean closures of most enterprises to the detriment of more Filipinos, especially the poor. ...
Health workers in the City of Manila who are 60 years old and above were given COVID-19 vaccines made by British-Swedish bio-pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca at the Ospital ng Maynila on Tuesday, March 9. ASTRAZENECA JABS — Manila Mayor Francisco 'Isko Moreno' Domagoso observes as Dr....
Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana The Philippines is once again making headlines in the vaccine world in an unfortunate follow-up to the infamous Dengvaxia fiasco. The latest reason is the decision by our Food and Drug Administration to limit the use of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine (Coronavac) among...
The Philippine COVID-19 vaccination program is finally underway. For weeks, we could only read about some countries like the United States innoculating hundreds of millions of their people. The Philippines has now joined their ranks as it began its own mass-vaccination program last Monday,...
Rep. Alfred Vargas Rep. Alfred Vargas of the 5th District of Quezon City has lauded Mayor Joy Belmonte for including 300,000 senior citizens, 20,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) and 703,000 indigents under the QC ProtekTodo plan. “Being one of the biggest cities in Metro Manila, we must all...
If you must go out, do so responsibly It’s been over a year since the coronavirus outbreak. Much has happened, thousands of lives lost, lockdowns imposed, barring us from having social gatherings and travel—some of the few things that make our stressful lives more bearable. March is a month of...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Over 7 billion human beings need the COVID-19 vaccine, and there are only a handful of people who manufacture them. There is a global vaccine shortage, hence the need to prioritize high-risk groups, especially medical frontliners. With demand vastly exceeding supply,...
President Duterte urged Filipinos to get vaccinated, assuring the public that the vaccines certified by the Food and Drug Administration for immunization against COVID-19 are safe and effective. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by British-Swedish...
All the 300 doses of Sinovac vaccine allocated by the national government to Makati City were administered to health workers at the Ospital ng Makati (OsMak) during the first day of vaccination rollout on Friday (March 5), Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay said. (MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Vergel P. Binay,...
There’s an online tool that predicts when you are likely to get the jab It’s called the Vaccine Queue Calculator and it estimates how many people are ahead of you in the queue It will also predict how long you might have to wait to get the vaccine jab The much-awaited vaccination drive against...
A total of 2,290 military healthcare workers have already been inoculated with CoronaVac vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd. since the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) began administering jabs against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the military has announced. A health worker...
