The Manila city government has released 8,000 COVID-19 2nd dose vaccines which will be used for the 1st dose vaccination of the A2 and A4 priority groups in the city on Friday (June 11). (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The COVID-19 vaccines will be deployed in the city's...
Now that a more substantial number of vaccines is set to arrive in the country this month – about 9.95 million as per vaccine czar Calito Galvez Jr. – expect the country’s vaccination rollout to shift to high gear in the third quarter of 2021. As of Wednesday, June 9, 2021, a total of...
The inoculation of Caloocan City residents belonging to the A-4 category or the economic frontliners will continue after the local government received on Wednesday a new supply of vaccines from the national government. The city's public information office said 19,720 doses of COVID-19 vaccine...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Thursday, June 10, reiterated its support to the mass vaccination program of the government. DSWD personnel were inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines during the ceremonial vaccination of essential workers and economic frontliners listed under...
The first shot of any coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine that would be allocated for the Philippine National Police (PNP) under the A4 category will be administered to Police General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, the top official said on Thursday, June 10. The PNP is yet to receive its...
The Makati City local government opened on Thursday its newest vaccination site as it started to inoculate people under the A4 (economic frontliners) priority group. (Photo from Makati PIO) The vaccination site, which is located at the 3rd floor of the Glorietta 5 mall on Ayala Avenue, can...
Philippine Olympic Committee (POCpre) President Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino and the members of the Gilas Pilipinas pool strike a pose after receiving the first dose of the vaccine last Friday. Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Bambol Tolentino announced Thursday, June 10, that...
Malacañang explained that there was no inequality in the distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the country, saying it has always been based on science. Workers wait for their vaccination inside SM Manila cinema that has been converted into a COVID-19 vaccination site on June 8, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/...
Manila temporarily halted its first dose mass vaccination as the city ran out of vaccine supply. (MANILA BULLETIN) Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said there will be no first-dose mass vaccination starting June 10. “Wala na po tayong bakuna. Magaantabay po ulit tayo ng resupply...
Around 1,500 barangays in the Philippines have been identified as the focus of the vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the national governments started the inoculation of economic frontliners, or those under the A4 classification. This developed as one million doses of Sinovac...
Of substance and spirit Diwa C. Guinigundo Last January 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was quoted by BBC News saying that it was not fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to be vaccinated before the older, more vulnerable people in poorer...
Lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Department of Health (DOH) not to roll out the US-made Pfizer BionTech COVID-19 vaccines to children even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed it for emergency use on minors 12 to 15 years old. 1-PACMAN party-list Representative Eric Pineda...
