Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Tuesday the construction of a mega vaccination facility in Nayong Pilipino would be favorable not only for his city, but for the entire National Capital Region (NCR) as well. (Nayong Pilipino Foundation website / MANILA BULLETIN) Olivarez said the mega...
US biotech firm Novavax on Monday said it had positive results from preclinical studies of a shot combining its influenza and COVID vaccine candidates. (FILES) This file photo illustration picture shows vials with COVID-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes with the logo of US biotech company...
The WHO chief took on so-called "vaccine diplomacy" on Monday, slamming countries for using Covid-19 jabs to gain competitive advantage rather than engaging in true cooperation to end the pandemic. "Vaccine diplomacy is not cooperation," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the World...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 years old. (FILES) In this file photo taken on March 4, 2021 vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 are seen as elderly people are inoculated amid...
The United States on Monday welcomed the successful delivery of 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines. The 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Monday night. (U.S....
President Duterte said that China can shower the Philippines with coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines all it wants but he will never surrender the country's claim to the West Philippine Sea. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement following criticisms of his remarks...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, May 10, said 25 percent or 501,600 of the more than two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in the country last Saturday from the Covax Facility have been allocated to the National Capital Region (NCR). (DOH / MB) In a virtual forum, Health...
Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco received his second dose of CoronaVac vaccine on Monday afternoon at San Jose Academy. (NAVOTAS LGU/ MANILA BULLETIN) In a facebook post, Tiangco shared that he waited for 28 days to receive the second dose of China’s Sinovac Vaccine. “Fully vaccinated na po tayo...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III called for the just and equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines to ensure the access of lower-income and developing countries to life-saving medical interventions amid the prolonged pandemic. At the recent 54th Annual Meeting of the Asian...
The government has to inoculate at least 6 million people in Metro Manila before it could see a significant reduction in the number of coronavirus cases (COVID-19) cases by the end of the year, OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said on Monday, May 10. (PIXABAY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
Vice President Leni Robredo is exploring to turn her Swab Cab project into a “vaccine cab” that will go around communities to vaccinate people who cannot register online for the vaccination program in their areas. The vice president said her office is always willing to help the government roll...
The University of the Philippines Diliman's (UP Diliman) task force monitoring the community's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation expressed on Monday, May 10, its support to proposals to suspend patent rights and intellectual property rule to allow the Philippines and other developing...
