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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 […]
Number of participants can’t be disclosed yet as part of agreement https://youtu.be/mCzpknTBj-w (Eagle News) — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine formulated by Johnson and Johnsons’ Janssen Pharmaceuticals are set to start in the coming weeks. DOST Secretary Fortunato dela Peña said that the local government units and hospitals where the clinical trials will be done have already been informed about this. Initially, the areas where […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson on Thursday submitted an application for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine with US health authorities, the company said in a statement. The process could take several weeks, but at the end of it the vaccine would be the third authorized in the United States, after those of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. J&J subsidiary Janssen Biotech “has submitted an application to the US Food and […]
Vaccine also prevented 85 percent of severe Covid-19 cases across all regions by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine has an overall efficacy of 66 percent, the company said Friday after a huge multi-continent trial, but the shot does not protect as well against a variant first detected in South Africa. Encouragingly, the vaccine was able to prevent 85 percent of severe Covid-19 cases across all geographical regions however — […]
(Eagle News) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that three clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines which it had earlier approved are about to begin in the country. These are the Phase 3 clinical trials for the vaccines developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals of Johnson and Johnson, Clover Biopharmaceuticals, and Sinovac. “So wala na po tayong pending ngayon na mga applications for clinical trials with FDA, and all these three clinical trials have been […]
(Eagle News) – Only the Chinese biotech firm Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine has so far passed the Philippine vaccine expert panel’s pre-screening for possible clinical trials in the country, according to the Food and Drug Administration. FDA Director General Eric Domingo said that only the vaccine from Sinovac has passed the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) vaccine expert panel, while two other COVID-19 vaccines – one by Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen pharmaceuticals, and Sputnik […]
