The COVID-19 candidate vaccine of British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca would still undergo the country’s regulatory process before it can be used in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Department of Health (DOH) (MANILA BULLETIN) On Nov. 27, the government and private...
An Aeroflot delivery of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to EU member Hungary last week has sparked new criticism at home and abroad of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's go-it-alone policies. This handout image released by the Hungarian Foreign Ministry on November 19, 2020, shows Hungarian...
As an unusual term comes to a close and Christmas holidays draw closer, students at the University of St Andrews in Scotland filed in and out of a sports hall that has been transformed into a mass coronavirus testing centre. Third-year medical students from the University of St. Andrews, wearing...
Parts of Europe will reopen stores on Saturday in time for the holiday season after progress in containing the coronavirus, but Los Angeles will halt nearly all gatherings with the pandemic surging across the United States. In this file photo taken on November 14, 2020 This aerial view shows cars...
COVID-19 vaccine supply agreement inked by Galvez, Concepcion, AstraZeneca The national government on Friday signed a tripartite agreement with over 30 private sector representatives, led by Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion, and United Kingdom-based...
The Department of Health recorded 1,631 new COVID-19 infections Friday, bringing the country's caseload to 425,918. Department of Health (DOH) (MANILA BULLETIN) The DoH noted that 91 percent of the nationwide tally has already recovered or 387,616 survivors. There were 370 new recoveries recorded...
A Mindanao lawmaker stressed Friday the importance of being able to produce and store vaccines for COVID-19 within the Philippines. "Vaccines need specialized, temperature-controlled containers for proper transport. Our country must have enough of these cold storage containers and facilities so...
One of the developers of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine announced Friday that India-based drugmaker Hetero will produce over 100 million doses of the jab. In this file photo taken on September 10, 2020, a nurse prepares to inoculate volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus...
DAVAO CITY - The number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases here continued to rise with 119 more recorded on Thursday, according to the COVID-19 Regional Case Bulletin. This accounted for a majority of the 165 new infections that were reported by the Department of Health (DOH) Davao Center for...
The British government said on Friday it has asked its independent medicines regulator to assess AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine as part of the formal approval process for the drug to be rolled out by the end of the year. An undated handout picture released by the University of Oxford on November...
DAVAO CITY - The Department of Health (DOH) Davao Center for Health Development reported 70 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the region on Tuesday, bringing the total number of active cases to 2,513. The DOH said the 70 cases were among the 1,009 persons who were tested. It said 45...
Ruben Vazquez lives in fear of dying before he gets a new kidney -- just one of thousands of organ transplant operations put on hold in Mexico due to the pandemic. A state health worker collects a swab sample from a woman to perform a COVID-19 test at the Santa Cruz Atoyac neighborhood, in Mexico...
