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Strict adherence to the minimum public health standards and the implementation of coronavirus vaccination are the main keys to lower the number of COVID-19 cases, an infectious disease expert said on Thursday, May 6.

Malacañang said President Duterte will still be able to get his second dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine despite his request to China to pull out the said brand from the Philippines.

The governments of the Philippines and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have agreed that there was a need to ramp up their cooperation to address the ongoing threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The Makati City local government will open on Friday, May 7, its first drive-thru vaccination site to accommodate persons with disabilities (PWD) and bedridden constituents.

The government would never lie about the data about the country’s coronavirus situation, including pace of the vaccination drive, President Duterte said Wednesday.

A member of the country’s vaccine expert panel (VEP) is seeing President Duterte’s decision to receive the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine as a boon for the government’s vaccination program, saying it would encourage more people to get themselves vaccinated.

Senator Joel Villanueva has shared the concern that the Hong Kong government’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all domestic workers would be discriminatory against overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

President Duterte has been finally vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine.

The pandemic-hit country inched closer to return to normalcy with plans to administer the coronavirus vaccines to workers in the private sector, according to Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion.

Malacañang asked the government of Hong Kong to not single out overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in its plan to make the vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mandatory.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Sunday said there should be “no singling out of any nationality” in Hong Kong’s plan to inoculate around 370,000 foreign domestic workers before their contracts can be renewed.

Former House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. has called on the government to prioritize the vaccination of all workers in the private and public sector.

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The “symbolic” vaccination of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and minimum wage earners will take place simultaneously in all 17 local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila on Saturday morning, May 1, on the occasion of Labor Day.

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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) lauded the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) for responding to its call to join the growing list of higher education institutions (HEIs) offering their school facilities as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centers.

The Department of Health said 3,025,600 out of 3,525,600 available doses of the coronavirus disease vaccines have already been distributed to different vaccination sites, as of April 27.

The memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the construction of a mobile field hospital and drive-thrrough vaccination site at Rizal Park’s Burnham Green in the city of Manila has been inked, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said Wednesday, April 28.