The national fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) is planning to launch an education drive among fishermen about the necessity of COVID-19 vaccines. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) This, as the group appealed for free and massive...
President Duterte warned the United States that he will proceed with the abrogation of their Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) if it fails to produce 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the Philippines. Duterte made the statement as he met with the government's pandemic task force and other...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking lawmakers’ imprimatur for it to be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccine tax-free as these doses will be used for its employees. NGCP President Anthony L. Almeda said with this gesture from the State, businesses would...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar admitted that farmers are not a priority in the government-led distribution of COVID-19 vaccine, but vowed to look for vaccines for the agriculture sector where players are also considered frontliners....
To fight COVID-19 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a loan program that will support developing countries in procuring and delivering effective and safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines. Masatsugu Asakawa, ADB president (Photo credit: https://www.adb.org) In a statement,...
Importation of critical medical medicines, including vaccines, are exempted from value added tax under the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act starting January 1, 2021, according to Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez. Lopez said at the Health and the Economic...
Life would not probably get back to normal until 2022 as COVID-19 vaccines may not be enough to enable people to return to business as usual by next year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. A resident rides her bicycle past armed soldiers along a street in Navotas in...
WASHINGTON (AFP) – To find out whether experimental Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective, researchers design clinical trials involving thousands of volunteers, divided into groups that receive either the drug under investigation or a placebo. Data from such trials have shown that two vaccines...
MIAMI (AFP) – A key facet of the global mad scramble by Pfizer, Moderna, and other pharma groups to develop a viable coronavirus vaccine is the recruitment of tens of thousands of volunteers willing to participate in clinical trials. AFP’s correspondent in Miami, Leila Macor, took part in such...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will extend technical assistance to developing countries, like the Philippines, to help them secure access to a coronavirus vaccine as well as in their distribution. In a statement, the Manila-based multilateral institution said it earmarked $20.3 million...
State-owned trading arm Philippine International Trading Corp. (PTC) has been tapped to procure the COVID-19 vaccines as early as before the end of this year as the government pursues negotiations with foreign manufacturers. Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez Trade and Industry Secretary...
Before this, the fastest vaccine developed was for mumps, for four years Coronavirus vaccines are rapidly advancing through the development pipeline. The University of Oxford’s vaccine is in large trials in Brazil, Britain, and South Africa. In the US, researchers just began enrolling around...
