Fully vaccinated senior citizens can now claim their P1,000 gift certificates (GCs) from the Makati City local government in two malls -- Ayala Malls Circuit and Glorietta 2. According to the city government, fully vaccinated senior citizens must bring their vaccination cards and their white card...
The Taguig City government will start Friday (July 2) the vaccination of people belonging to the A5 priority group or the indigent population. Using its vaccination bus, the city government will hold a symbolic vaccination of A5 group at Bagong Lipunan Condominium Tenement in Brgy. Western Bicutan....
Much ado about vaccine passports, even if they aren’t quite new. In the pilgrimage town of Pandharpur in Bombay, India, shortly after a vaccine for plague was developed in 1897, authorities required proof of vaccination as a condition of entry for the pilgrims who would flock to Pandharpur every...
Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary and treatment czar Leopoldo Vega said on Thursday, July 1, that mixing and matching different coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines pose an advantage to countries where vaccine supplies are limited. (KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual Palace...
The Muntinlupa City government has already vaccinated 36 percent of the target population as it continued to ramp up its daily output. As of June 30, a total of 139,942 individuals received their first dose of the vaccine, equivalent to 36.28 percent of the target Muntinlupa population of 385,725,...
Makati City Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay said fully vaccinated senior citizens in Makati City will receive P1,000 worth of gift certificates from the city government. (Photos from the local government unit of Makati City) The local government of Makati City seeks to entice senior citizens in the...
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said Wednesday, June 30, that the government should give wider vaccine choices for Filipinos as more anti-coronavirus shots of different brands are being made available to the Philippines. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Manila...
The Manila city government resumed its mass vaccination for A1 to A5 priority groups on Wednesday, June 30. (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso said that the Certificate of Analysis (COA) for the vaccines has been received by the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- American biotechnology company Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine showed promise in a lab setting against coronavirus variants, including the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India. The results came from vitro neutralization studies of sera...
The vaccine recipient in the viral video had asked the local government unit (LGU) of Makati City not to give the volunteer nurse severe punishment for not being able to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Abigail "Abby" Binay said on Tuesday (June 29). The mayor said that the nurse and the...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday, June 29, called on the government's pandemic task force to impose sanctions on health workers and other vaccinators involved in the misadministration of coronavirus vaccines to the public, which he said, also happens in Quezon City and "all over" the...
Education, not threats, is what will solve the vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos, a youth group told President Rodrigo Duterte. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement Monday night, June 28, Juan Health PH, condemned Duterte's threat to arrest Filipinos who refuse to get inoculated against...
