Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the monitoring on the use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the inoculation program against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is currently ongoing. Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...
The Department of Health (DOH) said it is now checking the health statuses of the close contacts of the two returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) who were detected to have the B.1.617 variant of coronavirus. DOH/MB DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said a total of 32 close contacts were...
La Salle St. Benilde gym In support of the country's efforts towards herd immunity, La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) opens its campus as a vaccination center to serve the residents of Barangay Wack-Wack Greenhills East. The initiative assists the Department of Health (DOH) to increase the number of...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) detected 4,842 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, raising the Philippines' overall tally of confirmed infections to over 1.1 million. For two consecutive days, the DOH reported more than 4,000 new coronavirus infections. The case bulletin released on...
The country is aiming to inoculate more than 70,000 people per day next month as more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines have arrived in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said. A health worker prepares to inject a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination hub in Makati City (ALI VICOY...
The Department of Health (DOH) said that it will recommend to impose stricter border control measures for passengers coming from the Middle East as the Philippines recorded two cases of B.1.617 variant of coronavirus. Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE...
The Department of Health (DOH) said that the over two million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines that recently arrived in the Philippines will be administered as first dose as these are set to expire in June and July. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (Photo from PCOO/ Manila Bulletin File...
The Department of Health (DOH) tallied 4,734 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours. DOH/MB This is the lowest number of new cases reported in a single day since March 17, wherein 4,387 cases were detected then. Based on Tuesday's case update, the country's total caseload...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, May 11, defended the Department of Health (DOH) on its plan to apply for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine made by China's Sinopharm. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director General Eric Domingo...
Malacañang on Tuesday, May 11, said it has yet to be determined whether there is community transmission of the Indian COVID-19 variant B.1.617 in the country to warrant the extension of the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) in the National Capital Region Plus (NCR Plus) bubble....
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, May 11, announced the presence of the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in the country. DOH/MB DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the variant was detected in two returning overseas Filipinos through the conduct of genome sequencing. "Nais...
More Filipinos will now be inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DOH/MB This in view of the arrival in the country on Monday, May 10, of the first 193,050 doses of donated Pfizer vaccines from the World Health Organization-led Covax facility. The national government led by the...
