President Duterte reiterated his order to prioritize the police and military men in the ongoing vaccination program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), underscoring their important role in keeping the country safe amid the pandemic. President Duterte delivers his public address (File Photo:...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" believes that herd immunity can be achieved in the country by September this year through continuous vaccination. (Photo by Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The city government broke its own record with 15,763 vaccines deployed in a single day on Monday...
The Manila City Health Office has apologized to those who lined up but were not able to receive their Pfizer vaccine during the last day of rollout yesterday (May 18). Residents wait in line to be inoculated at Manila Prince Hotel on Tuesday. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “Kami po ay humihingi ng...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, May 19, all police regional and provincial directors to start coordinating with the Department of Health for the identification of police camps that could be used as vaccination sites amid the...
To help ensure that education services and processes will not be further delayed and disrupted, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday, May 18, pushed for the vaccination of at least 150,000 individuals who are part of the skeleton workforce in higher education institutions (HEIs)....
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday announced that 73 percent of the Senate’s employees are already vaccinated. “As of today, the Senate has all the employees vaccinated at 73 percent. In other words, 73 percent of the Senate employees are already vaccinated, for the record,” Sotto...
As the government ramps up its vaccination efforts, President Duterte has appealed to the country's well-off citizens to let their poor fellowmen get ahead of the coronavirus vaccination line. A health worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a Manila resident while others wait for their turn at...
Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday said presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s attempt to accuse the opposition of praying for the failure of the government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination roll-out is nothing but a ridiculous and shameless statement. De Lima, a vocal critic of the Duterte...
Coronavirus vaccines should be given for free especially since commercial sale of such medication is not yet allowed in the country, Malacañang announced Tuesday, May 18. Coronavirus vaccines are ready to be administered to recipients at the Manila Prince Hotel on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila...
Amid the government’s plan to construct a mega COVID-19 vaccination site at the reclaimed Nayong Pilipino grounds in Parañaque City, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines said “all solutions to help end the pandemic should work with nature and not against it.” In a statement, WWF...
The country has administered a record-high 120,000 vaccinations in a single day as it marked the administration of more than three million doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jabs, a National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 official said. Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. attends Pres. Duterte's "Talk...
Getting vaccinated may not be a guarantee of avoiding a coronavirus infection especially with the threat posed by new variants, according to President Duterte. A resident of Makati City gets vaccinated at a health facility on May 12, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) Even as he urged people to get...