The national government is buying an additional 22 million doses of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac to ensure a steady supply of vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. presents updates on COVID-19 vaccination program on July 12, 2021. (Screenshot courtesy...
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Monday, September 6, vowed to specify the projects which will be funded under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict‘s (NTF-ELCAC) Barangay Development Program (BDP). DILG Secretary Eduardo Año (HoR) DILG, a member...
Individuals who are vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may be allowed to do more essential activities as the government recalibrates its pandemic response and tries the enforcement of granular lockdown in the National Capital Region (NRC), an official of a task force on pandemic...
Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday vowed to pursue the realignment of the proposed budget for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) which she sees as potential source of funds for the country’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), cancer treatment...
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, readily responded Thursday night, Sept. 2, when he was bombarded by President Duterte with questions on the government's procurement of personal protective equipment (PPEs) in the early months of the...
More provinces are now getting their supply of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but concerns were also aplenty if local government units (LGUs) in far-flung and geographically-isolated areas are already prepared to handle this sensitive vaccine. An airport employee...
A total of 703,170 doses of Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were successfully delivered to the country on Wednesday night, Sept. 1, and these will be distributed in areas outside the National Capital Region (NCR) as part of the government's "recalibrated" deployment...
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of the Naational Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, disclosed Wednesday, Sept. 1, that he supports the administration of a third dose or "booster shot" of vaccine against the coronavirus disease to the most vulnerable sectors,...
The national government apparently failed to hit its goal of securing 22,726,060 vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for the month of August, data sourced by the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 showed. From Aug. 1 to 31, the country received 18,039,890 doses from the...
Fifteen thousand doses of Sputnik V Component II vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were transported to the country from Russia late Tuesday night, Aug. 31. Qatar Airways flight QR 928 fetched the shipment from Moscow to Terminal 3 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City...
Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech delivered an additional three million doses of its CoronaVac vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the country late Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 31. Three million doses of CoronaVac vaccine made by Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech arrive at Ninoy...
The country is anticipating the delivery of a total 54.5 million vaccine doses against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in September and October, a top government official revealed. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. attends a pre-recorded Cabinet meeting on COVID-19 pandemic response aired on Aug. 31,...