DAVAO CITY - The City Health Office (CHO) has started the inoculation of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) and jail personnel at the Davao City Jail (DCJ) last week. According to Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the COVID-19 Task Force, the CHO is targeting to vaccinate 1,000 jail personnel...
In line with its efforts to ramp up its vaccination activities, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) opened its first “Bakuna” Center in Mindanao. The Philippine Red Cross opens its first 'Bakuna' Center in Mindanao (Photo from PH Red Cross) The PRC confirmed this in a statement issued Thursday, July...
As it continues to ramp up its vaccination efforts, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Wednesday, July 14, said that it has vaccinated over 28,000 people against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Philippine Red Cross, led by its Chairman and CEO Senator Richard Gordon, continues to ramp up its...
Education Secretary Leonor Briones urged the employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) as well as the general public to get vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DepEd and Pasig City collaborate to vaccinate education frontliners against COVID-19. (Photo from DepEd) Briones, in...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has a total of nine “Bakuna” or vaccination centers established in Metro Manila and Luzon. Philippine Red Cross continues to strengthen its vaccination efforts against COVID-19. (Photo from PH Red Cross) As of July 8, the organization’s vaccination centers...
Total vaccine administered as of July 8, 2021 (Source: DOH) The Department of Health (DOH) said that more than 12 million doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines have already been administered nationwide. A total of 12,703,081 Filipinos have already already been vaccinated against the...
The Pateros municipal government has vaccinated 73 percent of its target population with the first dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine and is aiming to reach 100 percent this month. As of July 8, 35,937 individuals in Pateros have received the first dose, or 73.34 percent of the...
More than 800 employees of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Central Office in Batasan Hills, Quezon City have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DSWD personnel receive their first dose of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during a...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, July 8 urged the Inter-Agency Task Force to accelerate its COVID-19 vaccination rollout to gain momentum against emerging new variants of the coronavirus. Hontiveros lamented that the current pace of the national vaccination program in the country remained...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) An official of the World Health Organization (WHO) has commended the Philippines’ COVID-19 vaccination rollout as more than 11 million vaccine doses were already...
The local governments of Muntinlupa and Pateros have suspended the vaccination of people for the first dose due to lack of new vaccine supply from the national government. In an announcement Monday, the Muntinlupa City COVID-19 Vaccination Program (MunCoVac) said the first dose vaccination will be...
The Muntinlupa City government has completed the first-dose vaccination of 39 percent of its target population. Based on data as of July 3, a total of 151,664 individuals have received their first dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19 vaccine, equivalent to 39.3 percent of the total target...