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(Eagle News) — Two COVID-19 vaccines have now been cleared for clinical trials in the Philippines, according to the Food and Drug and Drug Administration (FDA). This was after it had approved on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 the vaccine developed by Clover Biopharmaceuticals AUS Pty Ltd of China, days after it had approved the vaccine made by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. With this development, two vaccines against COVID-19 are now given […]
Galvez: 15,000 participants in Metro Manila set to join WHO Trial (Eagle News) — The Philippines will be one of two countries which will take part in the World Health Organization (WHO) Solidarity Trial this January, according to Philippine vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. The other country to take part in the WHO Solidarity Trial is Colombia. Galvez said 15,000 people from Metro Manila will participate this month in the WHO Solidarity Trial which […]
(Eagle News) — National Action Plan against COVID-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the Philippine government will close a deal within the month with at least seven manufacturers of vaccines against COVID-19. “We are now on the advance stages on negotiations with Novavax, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnsons & Johnsons, Sinovac at Gamaleya. We hope to close the deal with these companies this month,” Secretary Galvez said in a press briefing on Wednesday, […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Two Indonesian militants linked to a 2019 church blast in the Philippines have been shot dead by police, authorities said Wednesday, as officers arrested scores of pro-Islamic State radicals. The shootings came as Indonesia’s counter-terrorism squad, Densus 88, raided a hideout of extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Sulawesi island’s Makassar city, they said. Two suspects were gunned down when they “resisted arrest” and attacked officers, police said, adding that […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang affirmed travel restrictions in 21 countries, including the United States, which have reported the presence of the more infections COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 that was first detected in the United Kingdom. Aside from the UK and the US, other countries included in the list, which the Philippines had imposed a travel restriction on, are the following: Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Australia, Israel, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that the validation of the World Health Organization WHO) of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 for emergency use was “very significant” for a possible grant of emergency use authorization (EUA) in the country. FDA Director General Eric Domingo said that Pfizer submitted its application for EUA on December 23, and so far was the only vaccine maker which had applied for […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the United States as well as other countries which recently reported the presence of the more infectious COVID-19 strain will be included in the temporary travel ban as part of the precautionary measure against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said as a matter of policy, the US should be included in the travel ban where foreign travelers coming from countries confirmed […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law the P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget that provides funds for the government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and infrastructure development for next year. The signing ceremony happened on Monday, Dec. 28, attended by members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. “I stand before you today happy and proud to sign the 2021 General Appropriations Act,” President Duterte said in his message. -P72.5-B budget for COVID-19 vaccine […]
Swab samples taken: 53 test negative; 1 test positive; 23 more awaiting results (Eagle News) – At least 77 travelers from the United Kingdom were able to enter the country before the Philippines imposed a travel ban of UK flights on December 24 after news of a highly infectious virus variant, B.1.1.7, that was first detected in Britain. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the Department of Health is now closely monitoring these […]
Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]
But UK variant not yet observed in present COVID virus samples in PHL, says PGC (Eagle News) – Philippine scientists are monitoring and checking if the reported virus strain in the United Kingdom, variant B.1.1.7, — said to be more infectious than previous COVID-19 mutations — has already reached the country. The scientists at the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) are tracing if the current variants of the COVID-19 virus include that of the UK […]
(Eagle News) – A magnitude 6.3 quake rocked Batangas province on Friday morning, Dec. 25, at 7:43 a.m. local time, data from the US Geological Survey showed. The epicenter of the magnitude 6.3 quake was located at two kilometers southeast of Calatagan, Batangas. It had a depth of 114 kilometers, according to the USGS data. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), also recorded it at magnitude 6.3, but its epicenter was located […]
