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4th national vaccination campaign set from March 10 to 12 to increase vaccination numbers (Eagle News) – Philippine officials observed that less Filipinos are now going to vaccination centers as they noted that country seemed to have reached its saturation point in terms of its vaccination. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that this February, there were only 8.7 million people who had been vaccinated. Compare this to the numbers in November when […]
Specially formulated Pfizer jabs for 5-11 age group to arrive on Feb. 2 (Eagle News) — The Philippine government set February 4 and 5 as the vaccination days that would target children aged five to 11 in Metro Manila, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. During the vaccination rollout for the five to 11 year-old kids, at least 24 hospital and non-hospital based facilities would be participating. Specially formulated Pfizer vaccines for […]
Plan is to have two sites per city in NCR, initially, and then expanded nationwide in pilot sites (Eagle News) – Starting February, the Philippine government will begin administering COVID-19 jabs to children aged five to 11 years as the specially formulated vaccines for this age group is set to arrive next week. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the pediatric vaccination could start on Feb. 4. He said that the National […]
Specially formulated Pfizer vaccines for young kids might arrive by the end of January 2022 (Eagle News) – Vaccines to be used for the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 could be delivered before the end of the month but the vaccination of this age group could experience delays, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. Galvez, the chief implementer of the National Task Force Against Covid-19, said that the vaccines for minors […]
National Vaccination Day to be set this November targeting 5M Filipinos (Eagle News) – The Philippines has received over 110 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19, pushing vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., to have a more aggressive vaccination rollout. On Saturday, Nov. 6, an additional 866,970 doses of Pfizer vaccines procured by the government arrived in the country. This brought the total number of COVID-19 vaccines delivered so far to the country at […]
(Eagle News) – More than 100 million COVID-19 vaccines have already been delivered to the Philippines as of Thursday, Oct. 28, as officials announced the country had breached its target a few days earlier than the set end-of-the-month deadline. The country received a total of 100,528,240 COVID-19 vaccine doses after the delivery on Thursday of 976,950 government-procured Pfizer-BioNTech jabs. “Today, we celebrate another milestone in our national vaccination program. Initially, there were those who […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government will start vaccinating the rest of the country’s minors – aged 12 to 17 – on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., who is also the National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer, announced this amid the second phase of the vaccination for pediatric A3, or adolescents with comorbidities in Metro Manila. The first phase started on Oct. 15, and the second phase on Oct. […]
More than 96.7 million vaccine doses already delivered to PHL (Eagle News) The Philippines received another 3 million doses of Sinovac vaccines on Sunday, October 24, considered the country’s 100th shipment of COVID-19 vaccines since the first delivery this February 28. This was according to the National Task Force against COVID-19. This latest shipment brings the total vaccine doses to of 97,678,340 as of Oct. 24. “Of this latest shipment, 1 million doses were […]
Those with comorbidities to be prioritized; first phase of pilot implementation to start with those aged 15 to 17, followed by 12 to 14 age group Vaccine czar Secretary Carito Galvez Jr., speaking during the Oct. 4 briefing on COVID-19 vaccines. (Screenhot of PCOO/RTVM video/ courtest PCOO/RTVM) (Eagle News) – The Philippine government bared plans for the vaccination of adolescents, saying that the first phase would be the inoculation of those aged 15 to 17 […]
Galvez says those with comordibities, and children of health workers to be prioritized for vaccination by October (Eagle News) – At least 29 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been allotted by the Philippine government for the inoculation of adolescents, or those aged 12 to 17, that will start by October. This was according to National Task Force Against COVID-19 Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., who said that those who will be prioritized are adolescents with comorbidities […]
Total COVID vaccine doses delivered to the country as of Sept. 30 at over 71 million (Eagle News) – The country received more vaccines against COVID-19 with the delivery of over 1.23 million Moderna doses on Thursday, Sept. 30, and nearly 400,000 Pfizer doses on Wednesday night, Sept. 29. This brings to over 71.3 million doses the total number of COVID-19 vaccine supplies so far delivered to the country as the government prepares to vaccinate […]
President Duterte approves vaccination of children and general population by October, says Roque (Eagle News) – Malacanang is encouraging parents to enlist their children aged 12 to 17 years old for COVID-19 vaccines after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the administration of vaccines for children and for the general population by October. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the President’s approval of vaccination for children and for the rest of the population […]
