Twenty residents in Muntinlupa City, who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, won 25 kilos of rice each in a raffle draw that aims to encourage more people to get the jab. One of the winners (left) of the “Bigas sa Bakuna” raffle promo held in Barangay Sucat Sunday (Barangay Sucat / MANILA...
Individuals who will be caught selling coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine slots should be punished and given with lethal injection, a "joking" Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Sunday, May 30. Secretary Eduardo Año (Photo courtesy of DILG)...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III frowned upon the suggestion to have President Duterte and Vice President Leni Robredo in a single public service announcement to boost public confidence in vaccination. Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Senate of the Philippines) In a radio interview Saturday,...
Senator Cynthia Villar is pushing the government to allow fully vaccinated senior citizens to go out by June 1. Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate agriculture and food panel, during the hybrid hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on the government's decision to open up the...
A medical group on Saturday, May 29, has welcomed the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to place family members of health workers in the A1 group in its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination drive. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Philippine Medical...
The MARINO Party-list has called for the immediate acquisition of Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose vaccines for Filipino seafarers and other land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to expedite their deployment. In this file photo taken on February 23, 2021, vials of the CoronaVac vaccine,...
Google has rolled out the "Get the Facts" campaign as part of its commitment to help build trust in vaccines by promoting authoritative information across its products including Search. A Cebuano resident under the priority list receives a jab of Pfizer biontech Covid-19 vaccine in Cebu City held...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid We thought that the main hurdle in the current mass vaccination program, the most ambitious health project we’ve ever undertaken, was the slow pace in the administration of the vaccine. It was at the beginning, but the low rate of acceptance of COVID-19...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto I belong to the A3 priority category, so I have already received two shots of Sinovac's Coronavac spaced four weeks apart. With that said, let me tell you about my COVID-19 vaccine experience. The process is quite simple and straightforward, and I am so happy that the...
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Prevention is better than cure -- but when it comes to COVID, what happens when people can't get the vaccine, don't want it, or they're immune suppressed and it fails to stop infection? The hunt is on for a coronavirus treatment that can be taken as a pill...
The United States government has included the Philippines among the countries to receive the first batch of coronavirus vaccines as earlier promised by US President Joe Biden, Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C. Jose Manuel Romualdez said Friday. (via www.whitehouse.gov) In an interview over...
Senators do not find anything wrong with giving incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A resident of Parañaque City gets vaccinated against COVID-19 on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/MANILA BULLETIN) This, as Las Piñas City Representative...
