Tag: minors

Kids aged 5-11, both those with comorbidities and those without, could get Covid jabs in Feb. 4-11 pilot run

DOH targets to vaccinate 15.5 million kids aged 5 to 11 for entire immunization rollout   (Eagle News) – Children aged five to 11, both those with comorbidities or those with no comorbidities, could get vaccinated during the pilot run of the vaccination of minors in this age group from February 4 to 11, 2022, the Department of Health said. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said that they target to vaccinate 15.5 million kids in this […]

Karamihan ng mga kabataang may edad 12 to 17, fully vaccinated na, ayon sa vaccine expert panel member

58.7 percent mula sa mga ito ang fully vaccinated na, 71.21 percent ang partially vaccinated   Ni Madelyn Villar Moratillo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Karamihan sa mga kabataang nasa edad 12 hanggang 17 sa bansa ay fully vaccinated na kontra Covid-19, ayon sa isang miyembro ng Philippine Vaccine Expert Panel. Sinabi ni Dr. Mary Ann Bunyi, na pangulo rin ng Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines, na 58.7 percent o katumbas ng […]

Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 set to start on Feb. 4, says vaccine czar Galvez

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 […]

Parents urged to limit exposure of minors outdoors even in areas under alert level 2, 3

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has urged parents to limit the exposure of minors outdoors even if they are already allowed to go outside in areas under alert level 2 and 3. The PNP issued the reminder following the Department of Health’s statement that many COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated. According to the PNP, while pediatric inoculation was ongoing in the country, a large number was still awaiting their turn to get inoculated. “We […]

Galvez: Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 could be delayed due need to get differently formulated Pfizer jabs

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 […]

Defiant Maxwell says sex crimes charges ‘not proven’ as defense rests

      by Peter HUTCHISON Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defense wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking for the first time since her sensational trial opened late last month, the 59-year-old British socialite addressed the New […]

Pres. Duterte tells IATF, LGUs to issue restrictions for unvaccinated kids going to malls, public places

Reminds parents not to expose their children below 12 years old to COVID danger after death of 2 year old who got COVID after mall visit     (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte instructed the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases to come out with rules that would not allow minors, especially those below 12 years old, to go to malls and other closed spaces so that they would not be exposed to […]

PHL to start nationwide vaccination of the rest of minors on Nov. 3

  (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. […]

Eleazar says parents can be held liable for minors caught outdoors in Metro Manila amid COVID-19 restrictions

(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar said parents can be held liable for children going out for other purposes other than what are allowed with Metro Manila under a COVID-19 alert level 3. Eleazar said the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has already clarified that children can only leave their homes for medical purposes or if they want some exercise. Even then, the PNP chief the children need to be accompanied by their […]

Vatican teen sex abuse trial ends with acquittals

  ROME, Italy (AFP) — Two priests were acquitted on Wednesday of charges linked with sex abuse at a school for altar boys in the Vatican City, in the first criminal trial of its kind. Gabriele Martinelli, a former pupil at the St Pius X pre-seminary and now a priest, was accused of assaulting a fellow altar boy — years before he joined the clergy. Martinelli, now 29, was tried alongside priest Enrico Radice, the […]

Catholic Pope expresses ‘shame’ at French sex abuse scandal

  VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his personal shame and that of the Church at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, after the scale of the problem was laid bare in a devastating report. “I wish to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma they have suffered,” he said during his weekly audience at the Vatican. “And also my shame, our shame, my shame […]

Awful truth: Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church

  PARIS, France (AFP) — The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sex abuse scandals over the last three decades. An independent inquiry on Tuesday found there were 216,000 victims of French clergy between 1950 and 2020. It is the latest in a series of landmark reports and investigations that have helped lift the “veil of silence” around the crimes. – Australia – After a series of scandals, Australia’s government set up a […]