Some 70 personalities in the arts and entertainment signed a letter that call on global leaders to step up vaccine efforts before the end of 2021. In a letter organized by nonprofit CARE and the org’s global advocate Iman, the appeal came in time for the United Nations General Assembly and the...
San Jose del Monte City Rep. Florida P. Robes on Wednesday, Sept. 22 filed a bill imposing a 30-day prison term for citizens who refuse to get COVID-19 vaccine despite being eligible for the jab. Rep. Florida Robes, Lone District, San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan Robes, chairperson of the House...
In this file photo a healthcare worker fills a syringe with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination event in Los Angeles, California, August 11, 2021. (Robyn Beck / AFP) The country's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has welcomed the latest development in the coronavirus disease...
More than 64 percent of Antipolo City's eligible population had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) bringing the city closer to achieving herd immunity. (NEL ANDRADE/MANILA BULLETIN) The office of Mayor Andrea Bautista Ynares released the city’s Vaccination Progress...
The Makati City local government opened on Wednesday the registration for its free flu and pneumonia vaccine for senior citizens. The city government said that the vaccination aims to protect the city's senior citizens against the harmful effects of flu and pneumonia, especially amid the COVID-19...
There will be an estimated 100 million doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines in the country by the end of October if all the scheduled deliveries are completed, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. disclosed. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (left) and WHO country director Dr. Rabindra...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar Ginni Rometty, the first woman to lead IBM, once said, “The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company”. This idea could not...
A top official of the United States Embassy in Manila on Tuesday said the US is honored to continuously contribute to the Philippines’ COVID-19 response following the latest delivery of nearly 2.6 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to the country. Newly designated US Embassy Charge...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Most people do not yet need vaccine booster shots against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the vaccines remain effective at preventing severe infection, hospitalization, and death, said OCTA Research fellow and molecular biologist-priest Nicanor Austriaco....
Vials of COVID-19 vaccines. (Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) An infectious disease expert on Tuesday, Sept. 21, reiterated that all coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines approved in the Philippines are effective against the severe form of the viral illness. “Ang ating approved...
Nearly 9,000 minors from 12 to 17-year-olds have already signed up for the Muntinlupa City government’s vaccination registration program. According to the city government, from Sept. 14 to 20, or in one week after its launch, 8,812 people belonging to the 12-17 age group are now registered....
Around 9.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were delivered last week, marking the highest number of transported life-saving jabs to the country since February 2021 when the supplies started arriving. Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. (File photo / Screenshot from Kapihan sa Manila Bay livestream) Vaccine...
