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Says this is “no reason to suspend vaccination” (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) reported that one of those who received the COVID-19 vaccine had died, but said that this “serious adverse event (was) not connected to the vaccine.” The death occurred on March 15. The individual “received the COVID-19 vaccine and subsequently tested positive for COVID 19,” noted a DOH statement on Tuesday, March 17. The DOH, however, did not identify […]
DOH and FDA: “No indication for the PHL to stop rollout of AstraZeneca vaccines” despite suspension of AstraZeneca use in Europe (Eagle News) – The current 525,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines will be used as the first dose for health care workers to further expand the coverage of the country’s vaccine roll-out, according to the Department of Health (DOH). The DOH also assured that it would be closely monitoring the vaccines used in the […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine will be getting almost a million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines by March 22 at the earliest or early April at the latest, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez. Galvez reported to President Rodrigo Duterte that an additional 1.4 million doses of Sinovac vaccines from China will be arriving in the country this month. In total, the expected vaccines to be coming in would be 2.3 million doses, he […]
Roque holds Palace press briefing; says he’ll continue to discharge functions remotely (Eagle News) – When Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque reported for work in Malacanang on Monday, March 15, and was just about preparing for the usual Palace press briefing, he did not know that he would be part of the news. But just before the noon press briefing, at 11:29 a.m., he got the “shock” of his life after receiving the results of […]
More COVID-19 cases with UK and South African variants also detected (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed Saturday, March 13, a new variant of the coronavirus called P.3 which was first found in the Philippines, as it also detected the first case of the Brazilian variant in the country. Because of this, all three highly infectious variants – the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the South African variant (B.1.351 variant) and the Brazilian […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains will persist in the Philippines today, March 13. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, and CALABARZON will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. PAGASA said the conditions were due to the Low Pressure Area estimated 210 km southeast of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains […]
(Eagle News) — Japanese health authorities have detected a new COVID-19 variant in a traveler who came from the Philippines. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases said in a bulletin posted on Friday, March 12, that the mutated B.1.1.28 strain, which carries the E484K and N501Y mutations, was collected from the traveler on Feb. 25. “This variant isolate also has the P681H mutation in the spike protein as with B.1.1.7 lineage (VOC-202012/01) which is suggested […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, and CALABARZON will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the low pressure area 80 kilometers southeast of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Batanes and Babuyan […]
“Be careful because we might not be able to make it,” Duterte tells fellow seniors President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City on March 8, 2021. RICHARD MADELO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to all Filipinos to strictly follow minimum health protocols as […]
(Eagle News) – Some 1.4 million additional doses of Sinovac vaccines are expected to arrive in the country this month, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. In an interview over government television PTV-4 on Sunday night, Galvez said that 317,359 doses or more than half of the initial 600,000 doses delivered on Feb. 28 of the Sinovac vaccines had already been deployed nationwide to health workers as their first dose. The second dose […]
With arrival of 38,400 add’l doses, total AstraZeneca doses in PHL reach 525,600 (Eagle News) – The second batch of AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the COVAX facility of the World Health Organization arrived on Sunday night, March 7, completing the promised 525,600 initial doses of the vaccine. There were 38,400 AstraZeneca doses that arrived on Sunday night, shortly after 7 p.m. Added to the March 4 delivery of 487,200 doses, the total AstraZeneca doses […]
(Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 cases added today Saturday, March 6, reached 3,439, the highest number of daily cases so far this year. This is also the second consecutive day that the Philippines logged more than 3,000 daily cases. On Friday, March 5, the Department of Health noted 3,045 new cases. As of Saturday, March 6, total active cases in the country so far reached 43,323 as more highly infectious new variants […]
