President Duterte ordered the withdrawal of China-made Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines from the Philippines because they have not been granted an emergency use authorization by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his “Talk to the People” on May...
Parañaque City residents are no longer selective when it comes to the brand of vaccine they are getting against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Wednesday, May 5. (Edwin Olivarez / MANILA BULLETIN) Olivarez, in an interview with DZMM, said that people have been...
The impending jump in the delivery rate of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines starting this month will make a huge impact on the government's mass inoculation program, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said late Monday night, May 3. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. poses for a photo with the 500,000...
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...
Cebu Pacific (CEB) Thursday (April 29) delivered its first government-procured vaccine shipment of 500,000 doses of Sinovac from Beijing, China to Manila. The vaccine shipment, made in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH), arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
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...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday, April 23, reported that 24 deaths have been recorded following vaccination in the country. But the country’s food and drug regulatory agency noted that most of the fatalities were classified as “coincidental” and unrelated to the vaccination....
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III received his first dose of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine on Friday, April 23. Health Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo administered the China’s Sinovac vaccine to Duque at the DOH Gymnasium, according to the livestream of state-run...
The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 has allocated the lastest batch of 500,000 doses of CoronaVac brand vaccines to the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus and other areas experiencing a surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, as well as in economic centers. In a statement Friday,...
A woman is inoculated with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac laboratory against COVID-19, at a vaccination centre mounted at Carrasco airport in Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones in Uruguay on April 08, 2021. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) South American footballers will be given...
