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Expected vaccine supplies can be used to vaccinate up to 12 million children, says vaccine czar (Eagle News) – The Philippine government might just open vaccination for children aged 12 to 17 years old by mid-October as the country receives more supplies of vaccines. This was raised by National Task Force Against COVID-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., during the Sept. 22 Talk to the People of President Rodrigo Duterte. “We are proposing […]
(Eagle News) – Some 502,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses, procured through a public-private partnership, arrived in the country on Friday, September 10. The country is expecting to receive an additional half a million AstraZeneca doses next week. The vaccines were procured by local government units and the private sector through the “A Dose of Hope” initiative spearheaded by Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder Joey Concepcion, according to the National Task Force against […]
Booster shots to be allocated initially for A1 sector or the health frontliners, says Galvez (Eagle News) – The Philippines is preparing to buy additional vaccines as booster shots as the highly infectious Delta variant is declared as the dominant COVID-19 variant driving infections in the country. National Task Force Chief Implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito G. Galvez, Jr., said the NTF has started to negotiate with four different manufacturers that produce COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News) – Some three million doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived in the country on Thursday, Aug. 19, becoming the largest delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day. The three million Sinovac doses which were purchased from China arrived just a day after 365,040 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country. The latest deliveries bring to almost 46 million doses the total vaccines delivered so far. The Philippine Airlines aircraft carrying the […]
(Eagle News) – About 470,000 doses of the American-made Moderna vaccines arrived in the country on Sunday, Aug. 15, bringing to almost 4.3 million the total Moderna doses for the Philippine vaccination drive. The Singapore Airlines flight carrying 469,200 Moderna doses arrived at Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday. “Of these doses, 319,200 doses were procured by the Philippine government, while 150,000 were purchased by the private sector led by […]
Over 5.85M vaccine doses delivered in 2 days bringing total jab doses in PHL to over 26M (Eagle News) In a span of two days, the Philippines received over 5.85 million doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines including the 3.2 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot Janssen vaccines that arrived on Friday, July 16, and Saturday, July 17. Among the recent vaccine deliveries were the 1.15 million AstraZeneca doses which arrived on Friday morning, and […]
US also donating close to a million vaccine doses to the PHL set to arrive by July https://youtu.be/2_0XQHlDvSk (Eagle News) – The Philippines will be receiving at least 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States, including the 40 million Pfizer doses that were finalized through a bilateral deal, according to Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez. In an interview with the Eagle News Service program Balitalakayan on […]
(Eagle News) — The number of vaccinated Filipinos have breached seven million, with close to 2 million already fully vaccinated. This is according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr, in a recent Senate hearing on the vaccine procurement of the Philippine government. As of June 14, the number of those who received vaccines were 7,087,256 doses. Those who are fully vaccinated already reached 1,922,447, while those who received the first dose of the […]
Galvez says 10 million more vaccine doses would be delivered this month (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated some six million individuals against COVID-19, with some 1.5 million getting full vaccination after the second dose of the jab. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the six million vaccine doses administered would be breached by Tuesday at the earliest or this week. He said that there are around 10 million vaccine doses […]
Galvez said bulk of vaccines to be brought to Visayas in Mindanao areas with high COVID cases (Eagle News) – Another million doses of Sinovac vaccines from China arrived in the country on Sunday morning, June 6, bringing the country’s total of vaccine doses so far delivered at around 9.3 million. This is the first shipment of vaccines delivered for the month of June. This also brings to 6.5 million the total Sinovac doses that […]
PHL achieves 150k jabs a day, 1M per week; over 5M doses already administered (Eagle News) – The Philippines has been able to administer over 5 million vaccine doses before the end of May, and has vaccinated over three million individuals, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. In his report to President Rodrigo Duterte, Galvez said that the country was also able to triple the number of people vaccinated this May compared […]
Palace says directive is in accordance with COVAX guidelines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said the Pfizer vaccines donated by the COVAX Facility should be reserved for indigent Filipinos in accordance with the conditions set by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the vaccines’ delivery. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., said that the instructions were given amid the reported preference by many, especially the well-off for the Pfizer doses that have been donated […]
