CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt has received the first batch of the raw materials to manufacture China's Sinovac vaccine, said the Chinese embassy in Egypt on Sunday. Along with the Sinovac raw materials, a new shipment of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines also arrived at the Cairo International Airport on...
Marikina City’s Pfizer COVID-19 facility was lauded by the Department of Health (DOH) for being ideal for the temperature-sensitive vaccine. (JEL SANTOS/MANILA BULLETIN) The fully air-conditioned vaccination facility for Pfizer was built by the local government unit (LGU) of Marikina in the...
The fifth batch of government-procured vaccines from China arrived in the country on Friday morning, May 7, with the delivery of 1.5 million doses of CoronaVac from its manufacturer Sinovac Biotech. National Task Force Against COVID-19 Chief Implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. and Health Sec. Francisco...
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian on Friday said it is normal for neighbors like China and the Philippines to have differences as he expressed his belief that the coronavirus pandemic is a “test of friendship” between the two countries. Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines...
A police lieutenant who had been inoculated last month with one dose of the China-made CoronaVac vaccine has died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Friday, April 30. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) The 50-year-old fatality was an officer...
A Cebu Pacific flight (5J671) carrying 500,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.-made anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay City on Thursday morning, April 29. (Photo by Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) The aircraft, which came from...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is urging local government units (LGUs) in the provinces to include the agency's frontliners in their vaccination programs against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Mufid Majnun/ Unsplash) BI Spokesperson Dana M. Sandoval explained that immigration...
All the 300 doses of Sinovac vaccine allocated by the national government to Makati City were administered to health workers at the Ospital ng Makati (OsMak) during the first day of vaccination rollout on Friday (March 5), Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay said. (MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Vergel P. Binay,...
