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NCR plus areas, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao and other areas with high COVID cases prioritized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9LMq7IP_uk (Eagle News) – The Philippine government had its ceremonial vaccination of A4 or economic frontliners’ group on Monday, June 7. The event was held at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City. Initially those targeted for the ceremonial rollout are economic frontliners in Metro Manila. Health Undersecretary Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, in an interview with the Eagle News Service […]
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 […]
Dr. Salvaña cites study in India that covered community health workers (Eagle News) – A member of the Department of Health’s advisory group vouched for the reliability of wearing face masks together with face shields to prevent transmission of COVID-19, as well as being infected with the virus. Dr. Edsel Salvaña, a member of the DOH’s Technical Advisory Group (DOH-TAG), said that the use of face shield together with a face mask has been […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepal has reported its first death from mucormycosis or “black fungus”, the highly deadly infection affecting thousands of coronavirus patients in neighbouring India. Health ministry spokesman Krishna Prasad Poudel told AFP that there are now at least ten cases in Nepal, which like India has been hit by a huge Covid-19 surge. The 65-year-old man who died was being treated at the intensive care unit at a hospital in western Nepal […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Chile on Thursday became the latest country to limit use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, linked to rare blood clots, when a 31-year-old man developed thrombosis after being immunized. Pending further investigation and as a “preventative and proactive measure,” the shot will in future be administered only to people 45 and over, the health ministry of the South American country said. It did not give details on the condition of the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo is donating more than one million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to Taiwan, Japan’s foreign minister announced Friday, as Taipei struggles to secure jabs, accusing China of interference. The move is likely to stir controversy with Beijing, which views democratic and self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and works to keep the island diplomatically isolated. “We have received requests from various countries and areas for the provision of vaccines,” […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AFP) — The head of a Pakistani province ordered Thursday that government employees who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 would not be paid from next month. Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah announced the move after meeting with health officials to discuss the first cases of the delta variant detected in the province, which includes the megacity of Karachi. “Any government employee who is not vaccinated should have their salary stopped from […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — The UN’s health agency on Thursday said it had detected a surge late last month in coronavirus cases in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “An exponential rise in the spread of SARS-Cov-2 virus has been recorded in Kinshasa,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a weekly report, as a DRC health ministry official confirmed “the third wave of Covid-19 is already there — it’s the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — More than two billion Covid-19 vaccines have been given across the world, according to an AFP tally Thursday drawn from official sources. The milestone comes six months after the first vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 began. At least 2,109,696,022 shots have been given in 215 countries and territories, according to the count from an AFP database taken at 0915 GMT. Israel, which has led the race from the start, is still out […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy, one of the European nations hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, on Thursday opened vaccinations for everybody over the age of 12. Each region can adapt the national rules but technically anyone registered with health authorities can sign up — including teenagers, after the European Medicines Agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech jab for 12 to 15-year-olds last week. “It’s a beautiful day,” enthused Luigi de Magistris, the mayor of Naples, saying […]
by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax vaccine program secured another $2.4 billion from donors on Wednesday, but underlined it was still struggling to get enough doses to help poorer countries fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The scheme is trying to get enough vaccines for 30 percent of the population in 92 of the poorest participating territories — 20 percent in India — with donors covering the cost. But despite raising more than the […]
SAINT-CIRQ-LAPOPIE, France (AFP) — France will start offering Covid-19 vaccines to all young people aged 12-18 years starting on June 15, President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. During a visit to the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in southern France, Macron also noted that 50 percent of French adults have now received at least one Covid vaccine jab, calling it “truly a turning point” in the country’s inoculation drive. Vaccine supplies have increased sharply recently, prompting officials to […]
