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(Eagle News) – The Philippines has administered more than 14 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Wednesday, July 14, with more than 10 million Filipinos having received the first dose, and over 4 million already fully vaccinated. This was announced by Malacanang on Thursday, July 15. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that those given first doses (10,026,772) already covered 14.32 percent of the country’s targeted population. While those given second doses (4,047,792) were 5.78 […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least eight staff at a Japanese hotel hosting Brazil’s Olympic judo team have tested positive for coronavirus, local officials said Thursday. Health and sports officials at Hamamatsu city, west of Tokyo, said virus screenings were done before the judo delegation of around 30 members arrived there on Saturday. None of the infected individuals came in contact with the athletes, they said. The news comes as Tokyo prepares to host […]
(Eagle News) – Another 1 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccines against COVID-19 arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday, bringing to more than 21.7 million doses the total jabs delivered to the country since Feb. 28. The 1 million Sinovac doses delivered this morning is part of the 26 million CoronaVac doses that have been purchased by the Philippine government for this year. With the delivery, there are now 13 million Sinovac doses in […]
(Eagle News) — The country recorded its highest number of vaccines administered in a day at 375,059 jabs on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. According to the National Task Force against COVID-19, this is the highest number of vaccines administered in one day since the country started its vaccine roll-out in March this year. As of Tuesday, at least 13,817,358 Filipinos have received their COVID-19 shots in 4,360 vaccination sites throughout the country. “Of this number, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqe4xOWHHP8 (Eagle News) — Balitalakayan interviews San Juan City mayor Francis Zamora on Wednesday, July 14, on the achievement of having vaccinated 70 percent of the city’s populaton with the first dose. Zamora also answers questions about his father, Rep. Ronaldo Zamora, who had been vaccinated both with Sinopharm and Pfizer doses. For the full interview, click the video above, or the link here: Interview with San Juan City mayor Francis Zamora | Balitalakayan […]
Senior citizens to be prioritized for single-dose J&J jab (Eagle News) — More than 3 million doses of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the COVAX Facility would be delivered to the country by July 19, further boosting the vaccine rollout. Because J&J vaccines only require a single for full vaccination, this means faster period for more Filipinos to be fully vaccinated. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, the chair of the National Vaccination Operations […]
(Eagle News) – The country has fully vaccinated more than 3.5 million Filipinos as of Monday, July 12, while those given just first doses reaching 9.6 million. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, who also chairs the National Vaccination Operations Center, said that more than 13.1 million so far have been administered vaccines against COVID-19. She said that by end of July or in August, the country can administer 200,000 to 300,000 jabs per day. In […]
Malacanang lauds the country’s historic initial victory against the COVID-19 pandemic (Eagle News) – San Juan City announced it had already vaccinated with the first dose 70 percent of its population, representing the initial victory of the country against the COVID-19 pandemic. With this declaration, San Juan City is the first ever city in the country to achieve the vaccination of its target population using the first dose. It also aims to achieve herd […]
(Eagle News) – More than three million Filipinos are now fully vaccinated, according to Malacanang. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that 3,089,976 Filipinos have been given the complete two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines as of July 7, 2021, based on data from the National COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard. “Conservative number pa po ito at inaasahan natin na tataas pa ang bilang kapag dumating na ang mga numero mula sa mga lokal […]
5,675 new cases bring total active infections to less than 50k, or just 3.4 percent of total COVID-19 cases (Eagle News) – The Philippines recorded 5,675 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing to 1,467,119 the total confirmed cases recorded so far in the country since the pandemic began. Of this number, only 3.4 percent are active cases, or a total of 49,968 which is one of the lowest percentages so far of active cases since […]
by Agence France Presse Bureaus Agence France Presse The Spanish region of Catalonia was on Saturday set to reimpose virus restrictions in the face of rising coronavirus infections, as the highly contagious Delta strain forced nations worldwide to put the brakes on a long-awaited return to normalcy. The highly transmissible Delta variant, first detected in India, is sweeping the globe as countries race to inoculate their populations to ward off fresh outbreaks that are […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Health workers in coronavirus-hit Indonesia will get a third booster jab using the Moderna vaccine, authorities said Friday, after several fully inoculated medics died from Covid-19. The Southeast Asian nation, battling its most serious outbreak to date driven by the Delta variant, has relied heavily on the Chinese-made Sinovac jab in its vaccine roll-out. But out of 1,000 medical workers who have died of Covid-19, more than a dozen were […]
