Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Philippines is expected to receive one million bivalent Covid-19 vaccines “in the coming months” to be donated by other countries and the global vaccine...
Are yearly shots in the works? CLINICAL MATTERS Do you need a fourth shot? When should you get one? What about a fifth shot? Is this going to be a yearly thing? The resurgence of Covid-19 as a result of breakthrough infections by the variants of concern has tempered expectations on the ability of...
ft.com Around 780,000 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine doses for children aged five to 11-years-old are set to arrive in the Philippines on Thursday, Feb. 3, the Department of Health (DOH) said. The initial Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivery is in time for the rollout of the COVID-19...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) Four coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine brands were authorized to be used as additional doses for fully vaccinated people, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Sinovac could be used as "homologous" vaccinesmeaning the...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the province of Bulacan continue to decline and the Provincial Health Office (PHO) has administered 1,401,593 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Bulakenyos, Governor Daniel R. Fernando said on Monday, Oct. 4. Governor Daniel R. Fernando urges Bulakenyos to get...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Antibody levels following COVID-19 vaccination decrease more rapidly than previously believed, according to a study of staff at a hospital in Stockholm, Swedish Television reported on Tuesday. A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Jakarta,...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand has administered more than 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far, according to official figures released on Sunday. Nearly 40 percent of the country's population have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 18 percent have been fully vaccinated,...
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...
COVID-19 vaccines (Keith Bacongco/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it is not yet recommending the use of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine booster doses. WHO Coordinator for Essential Medicines and Health Technologies Dr. Socorro Escalante said that...
BEIJING, China -- China will "strive to provide" two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate $100 million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said Thursday. Chinese President Xi Jinping (Xinhua/File) The pledge came in a...
Amid looming threat from the more transmissible Delta variant, the country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) thumbed down on Thursday, July 29, OCTA Research’s proposal to shorten the interval between administering the two doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines. (NOEL CELIS / AFP / MANILA...
The country can only win the war against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) if more people get vaccinated against the illness, according to an adviser of President Duterte. A customs agent inspects the shipment of more than 1.5 million AstraZeneca vaccines, procured by the private sector, that...
