Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines Sputnik Light and Sinopharm are now allowed to be used as booster shots, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Friday,...
Several airport personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) were vaccinated with booster shot against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, Jan. 28. The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) starts the booster vaccination against COVID-19 of airport employees at Ninoy...
Four out of five or 80 percent of vaccinated adult Filipinos are willing to get a booster dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed on Thursday, Jan. 27. People waiting for their booster shot in Muntinlupa. (File...
The number of active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Pateros has decreased as the Department of Health (DOH) noted that the cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) continue to drop amid the spread of the Omicron variant. According to the Pateros municipal government, as of Jan. 26, the...
Please don't get coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news or updates from "Marites". (Ben White/ Unsplash) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles made this appeal Tuesday, Jan. 25 as he--for the nth time--tried to dispell misleading information about COVID-19 that's being...
Marikina City, on Tuesday, Jan. 25, launched a walk-in coronavirus (COVID-19) booster vaccination program exclusively for senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs). This is the city’s first walk-in vaccination program since the series of National COVID-19 Vaccination or Bayanihan,...
Education Secretary Leonor Briones encouraged teachers and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) to take their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster shots once they were deemed eligible. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “We are reminding our personnel and offices to not wait...
Malacañang urged the public to not share disinformation about coronavirus (COVID-19) booster shots, stressing that the additional jab provides more protection against disease. People waiting for their booster shot in Muntinlupa. (File photo/Muntinlupa PIO) Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the...
The Municipality of Binangonan has urged its residents to get their COVID booster shots as an added protection against Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to a Facebook post of the office of Mayor Cesar Ynares, it said that residents who are fully vaccinated for the past three months are...
The Pateros municipal government will launch its drive-thru booster vaccination on Jan. 24 to increase the number of people getting the additional shots. Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III announced that the drive-thru booster vaccination is limited to those 18 to 65 years old with no...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) There should be sufficient data first before the government will allow the administration of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for children, the Department of Health...
President Duterte has not experienced any ill effects from his Sinopharm booster shot, Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles said. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Nograles made this revelation Wednesday, Jan. 19 during a television interview even as...