The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 319 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, July 1. The number of active cases is now at 6,945, leading to a total of 4,165,076 cases nationwide since the pandemic began. The health department also advised that the number of recoveries climbed to 4,091,647 with no new...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reminded in a media briefing on Friday, June 30, that a doctor's prescription will be required for purchasing bivalent Covid-19 vaccines once they become available in the country. The supplies will be sold by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, but the price and...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has recognized a Filipino-British nurse, who administered the world's first Covid-19 vaccine, for bringing honor to the country. President Marcos and Filipino-British nurse May Richell Cestina-Parsons meet in Malacañang on June 29, 2023. (RTVM Screenshot)...
Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna- Pangan urged the public to get the second Covid-19  booster shot ahead of the rollout of bivalent vaccines for the general public. In her social media address, The Capital Report, on Thursday, June 29, the  mayor lamented the low turnout in booster...
The Covid-19 vaccines will remain free for poor Filipinos even after the country's public health emergency is lifted in the future, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro "Ted" Herbosa said on Tuesday, June 27. Courtesy of DOH Secretary Teodoro "Ted" Herbosa Facebook "Magiging libre siya sa...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Four Mayon Volcano evacuees have tested positive for Covid-19. The Albay Provincial Health Office (PHO) said the latest to catch Covid was an evacuee from Malilipot, this province, on Monday, June 26. Jan Edmund Bailon, Albay Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the application and granted a Certificate of Product Registration (CPR) for the Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty. Courtesy of Unsplash According to the European Medicines Agency, Comirnaty contains tozinameran, which is an mRNA molecule with...
The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 521 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, June 25. Photo courtesy of Pixabay This results in a total of 8,244 active cases in the country, the health department advised. DOH noted that these cases are those that tested RT-PRC positive by a DOH-Research Institute for...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The head of US intelligence said Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government's Wuhan research lab. In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they had no information...
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, June 22 that there is an ongoing negotiation with the Covax facility to facilitate the country's request for two million doses of Covid-19 bivalent vaccines. *A vial of a Bivalent COVID-19 vaccine used for the A1 category at the FilOil EcoOil Centre...
BATANGAS CITY – The Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) has started inoculating individuals belonging to the A1 and A2 populations with bivalent Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, June 20, at the Batangas Medical Center...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Wednesday, June 21, hailed those behind the manufacturing and administering of the Covid-19 vaccines as he credited them for allowing society to return to normalcy. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his speech during the launch of the bivalent...
