The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is ready to open its own probe into the reported wastage of 44 million doses of COVID-19 shots and to look into the documents pertaining to the purchase of these vaccines, Senator Francis Tolentino said on Sunday, December 4. Tolentino said also said he supports the...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday, Dec. 2 that Covid-19 vaccine wastage has reached 44 million. Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) In a press conference, DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin, a former Department of Health (DOH) secretary, believes that Covid-19 vaccines wastage in the country is actually worse than what's being reported. Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin In an interview over CNN's The Source on Thursday, Dec. 1, Garin floated...
BEIJING, China -- China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions. Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting...
The refusal of some people to be inoculated against the Covid-19 is the main reason in the expiration of the multi-billion peso worth of vaccines, Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) President Dakila Carlo Cua said on Wednesday, Nov. 23. In an interview with ABS-CBN, Cua said that...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The country’s Covid-19 vaccine wastage is still within the acceptable threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Health (DOH) said on...
A Makabayan lawmaker is up in arms over the reported 31 million doses or P15.6 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines that have gone to waste. Covid-19 vaccines (MANILA BULLETIN) "The government should not take the over 31 million doses of wasted Covid-19 lightly. This wastage is worth an estimated...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday, November 21, said he is in favor of the Commission on Audit (COA) summoning members of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration to shed light on the non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine procurement. As chairman of...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, November 21, urged the Department of Health (DOH) to do its best to prevent vaccine wastage saying the Philippines cannot afford to lose billions of funds amid an economic crisis and the need to fund essential government programs. Hontiveros said the DOH itself...
Following reports that the Philippines has wasted 31.3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion said it was becoming more evident that pre-registering vaccinees will be the best method to avoid wastage in future vaccination efforts. (Pixabay) Concepcion said this after...
A total of 15,249 doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered by the Philippine Red Cross in Marawi City since 2021. Courtesy of Philippine Red Cross The vaccination effort was spearheaded by PRC Mobile Bakuna Team who has fully vaccinated 7,657 individuals from the city. PRC Chairman and...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark's Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, said Thursday it had signed a deal to supply European nations with up to two million doses of the jab. A joint procurement agreement was penned with the European Commission's...
