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Palace says new guidelines to take effect on Feb. 15 (Eagle News) — The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases has approved the relaxing of restrictions for religious gatherings in areas under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) and is now allowing up to 50 percent of the venue’s seating capacity. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that this would take effect starting Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. “Inaprubahan po ng inyong IATF ang pag-relax o […]
(Eagle News) — The 60-day price cap for pork and chicken not only covers public markets, but supermarkets in Metro Manila as well, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced on Thursday, Feb. 4. Roque said that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will also subject imported pork and chicken being sold in supermarkets to a price cap. “Nangako po ang ating DTI sa pamamagitan ni Secretary (Ramon) Lopez na henceforth, unang-una magkakaroon po ng […]
Over 9.4-M vaccine doses to arrive under WHO’s COVAX Facility by second quarter (Eagle News) — Malacanang said that around 5.6 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and AstraZeneca would be arriving in the country this first quarter, with the first batches to arrive this February in preparation for the Philippines mass vaccination drive against COVID-19. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced this on Monday, Feb. 1, saying that this was the “very good news” he wanted […]
PHL is 2nd ASEAN country with most COVID-19 cases after Indonesia (Eagle News) – The Philippines has dropped to no. 32 among countries with the most number of COVID-19 cases from 19th place four months ago. This was according to the virus dashboard of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on Monday, Jan. 25. The country has 513,619 COVID-19 cases and 10,242 deaths as of that date. Even the Philippine government has observed that the […]
Millions of vaccine doses can be stored in current facilities (Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the country will have enough cold chain storage facilities for the expected doses of COVID-19 vaccines expected to arrive starting next month. The storage facilities currently in the country already have the capacity to store millions of doses of vaccines which have a temperature requirement of between 2°C to 8°C, between -15°C to -25°C, and […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang defended the Philippine government’s bilateral negotiations on COVID-19 vaccine acquisition for the country, saying that almost all countries are doing the same thing. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that with the current global health emergency on the virus pandemic, the centralized acquisition of vaccines through the government is needed to systematize the procedure and to get the best possible deal. “Una, bakit gobyerno ang nag-aangkat ng bakuna? Well, tatandaan natin […]
PHL partners with Serum Institute of India which will produce vaccines (Eagle News) — The Philippines has secured 30 million doses of the vaccine, Covovax, which was developed by Novavax Inc, a biotechnology company based in the United States, and is set to be produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII). Palaca spokesperson Harry Roque said that this is second good news that the Philippine government has on the matter of securing COVID-19 […]
Roque says PHL to get a total of 25 million vaccine doses from Sinovac in 2021 (Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the first COVID-19 vaccine doses to arrive next month would be coming from Sinovac, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company that produces vaccines against infectious diseases. In a media briefing, Palace spokesperson Harry Roque said that at least 65,000 doses of Sinovac’s vaccines will be arriving in the country by February, which means that 65,000 […]
(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) – Malacanang said that it is closely monitoring the situation in the United States which confirmed the entry of the new COVID-19 variant that is said to be more infectious than previous strains. A Palace statement, however, said that the decision to include U.S. among the countries where incoming and outgoing flights are banned would be based on what will be the recommendation of the Department of Health and the Department of […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the COVID-19 vaccines used to inoculate members of the Presidential Security Group, particularly the close-in security of President R odrigo Duterte, were from donations. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that no public funds were used for the vaccines that came from Sinopharm, a pharmaceutical firm based in China. Roque said that the PSG commander, Brig. Gen. Jesus Durante III, had already explained how protecting the health of the […]
FDA says it has not yet authorized entry and use of any COVID vaccine in the PHL (Eagle News) — Malacanang warned the public against availing of alleged COVID-19 vaccines in the black market, saying these are not yet registered and their safety and efficacy are in question, and could even be a danger to one’s health. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also said that the source of these alleged vaccines is also questionable, […]
