Citing the death of around 800 unvaccinated children who died due to complications caused by measles in 2019, the executive director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV) said disinformation about vaccines can kill people. A girl gets her Covid-19 vaccine in Muntinlupa City. (File...
During the celebration of World Immunization Week, the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, April 25, rolled out the second Covid-19 vaccine booster shot for immunocompromised individuals in different vaccination sites of the National Capital Region (NCR). (UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) DOH said the...
The Quezon City Jail Male Dormitory (QCJMD) on Monday, April 25, has conducted Covid-19 vaccination inside the jail facility in Kamuning, aiming to inoculate close to 2,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs). Jail Senior Supt. Michelle Bonto, QCJMD warden, said that they are targeting to vaccinate...
As the government intensifies its inoculation efforts, Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III on Monday, April 25, bared that 95 percent of Covid-19 deaths in the country are unvaccinated. Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III (Malacañang Photo) “We have had reports, the DOH (Department of...
The Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) on Sunday, April 24, expressed support for the second booster shot program of the Department of Health (DOH), noting such is very beneficial to senior citizens and immunocompromised who are more vulnerable to contracting severe Covid-19. (AFP/MANILA...
PARIS, France – Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb every year to malaria, an age-old mosquito-borne scourge that worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 627,000 people died of malaria in 2020, the...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Ninety-three percent of the people in Cambodia, aged 3 years old and over, have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccines, Health Ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said on Saturday. The southeast Asian nation launched a national vaccination...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the country's Covid-19 vaccine wastage has been minimal so far— at less than two percent. “This is lower than the 10 percent that the WHO (World Health Organization) has given as a standard for the vaccine wastage all over...
In this file photo taken on February 17, 2021 a nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly patient at the Dunkirk hospital. French Prime Minister announced on March 12, 2022 the opening of the fourth dose of vaccine "to the over 80s who have received their booster dose for more than three...
In this file photo taken on May 07, 2021, Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccines are seen on a table in Los Angeles, California. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the use of Janssen Covid-19 vaccine as booster shots among fully vaccinated...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- More than a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one dose of the first anti-malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The "breakthrough" RTS,S vaccine was pioneered in Malawi in April 2019 and found to be safe and to...
CAVITE - The provincial government is gearing up in case of a possible spike in Covid-19 cases in May. On April 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about the possibility of at least 300,000 active cases by mid-May if the public continues to neglect minimum health and safety protocols....
