The Metro Manila Council (MMC) said it is not yet the right time to implement a vaccine pass policy that will only allow fully vaccinated individuals to enter indoor establishments. (BLOOMBERG) MMC Chairman and Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the policy will be “unfair” given that only few...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" believes that herd immunity can be achieved in the country by September this year through continuous vaccination. (Photo by Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The city government broke its own record with 15,763 vaccines deployed in a single day on Monday...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) directed the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) on Wednesday, May 19, to coordinate with the Department of Health (DOH) and the local government units (LGUs) to expedite the delivery of vaccines to the...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, May 19, all police regional and provincial directors to start coordinating with the Department of Health for the identification of police camps that could be used as vaccination sites amid the...
More than 1.5 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been injected into people's arms around the world, six months after the vaccination drive started, according to an AFP count. Buddhist monks are injected with the Sinovac Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Priest Hospital in Bangkok on May...
The world's largest vaccine maker said Tuesday it hopes to resume delivering COVID-19 jabs to Covax and other countries by the end of this year, after India restricted exports to combat a massive rise in infections at home. The Serum Institute of India has been producing hundreds of millions of...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno'' Domagoso said on Tuesday (May 18) that he was just expressing an honest opinion when he mentioned the "super slow" deployment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines to local government units (LGUs). Manila City Mayor Francisco Isko Moreno Domagoso (Manila...
The vaccination of economic frontliners (A4) and indigent population (A5) have been approved by the national government and it could start immediately after this month, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. revealed on Tuesday, May 18. Galvez, vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force...
SANTIAGO, May 17 (Xinhua) -- An updated study showed that the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac is 65.3 percent efficacious in preventing COVID-19, Chile's Health Ministry said on Monday. A medical staff member administers a dose of the coronavirus CoronaVac vaccine...
National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon said on Tuesday, May 18, the crowded Pfizer vaccine rollout in Parañaque showed that vaccine confidence among Filipinos is "increasing." (Photo from Chinggay Kanapi) On Monday, May 17, Parañaque residents flocked...
Sharon Cuneta In a new video uploaded on Instagram May 18, megastar Sharon Cuneta received her first jab of Moderna vaccine in the US. "Vaccinated! Got my first dose of Moderna Vaccine! Thank you so much, Nurse Trixia!" Sharon wrote in her caption for the video. View this post on Instagram Sharon...
The Department of Health (DOH) reminded the public to first secure an appointment before heading to the vaccination site to receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. Coronavirus vaccines are ready to be administered to recipients at the Manila Prince Hotel on May 18, 2021. (Ali...
