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by Joseph BOYLE with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse Health officials have rolled out more than 510 million coronavirus vaccine doses around the world, but with big gaps between countries the WHO on Friday appealed to richer nations to donate vaccines to help poorer ones start inoculations. Despite the huge effort to get jabs into arms, the pandemic is still surging in Europe and Latin America — where Brazil has now passed 300,000 deaths and […]
by Agence France Presse Bureaus SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — The global Covid-19 vaccination drive gained pace Sunday as Brazil gave its first injections and India pushed on with its massive campaign, while European authorities sought to allay concerns about delays in supplies. Brazil’s health regulator gave the green light for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and China’s CoronaVac to be used as the Latin American giant suffers a devastating second wave of the coronavirus. Monica […]
(Eagle News) — Magsasagawa ng malawakang immunization ang Department of Health (DOH) sa gitna ng dumaraming kaso ng tigdas. Layunin ng nasabing hakbang na maprotektahan ang mga komunidad laban sa tigdas. Tatagal ng isang taon ang massive immunization sa buong bansa, sa lahat ng mga bata at sa mga lugar na may naitalang kaso ng tigdas na isang supplementary immunization activity bilang proteksyon laban sa naturang sakit. Paliwanag pa ng opisyal, sa kabila ng pagkabahala […]
(Eagle News) — Former Health Secretary Janette Garin has filed criminal charges against her successor, Paulyn Ubial, over the Dengvaxia mess. In a complaint filed before the Department of Justice, Garin sued Ubial for reckless imprudence resulting in homicide, apparently blaming her for the deaths allegedly associated with the controversial dengue vaccine. Garin took note of Ubial’s move to expand the dengue immunization program from a school-based program to a community-based project. According to Garin, “deaths were […]
Symptoms felt “may or may not be related to vaccine,” PNP hospital official says (Eagle News) — Over 60 policemen who were administered the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine had to seek treatment in the hospital after complaining of body pain, among others. But Philippine National Police General Hospital chief Senior Supt. Reimound Sales clarified that the symptoms felt by the 61 policemen as of March 1 “may or may not be related to the vaccine.” Apart from […]
