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(Eagle News) – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III was vaccinated with Coronavac, a brandname of the Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, on Friday, April 23. Duque was given the SInovac jab at around 10 a.m. at the Department of Health office compound where some 70 more DOH officials are also set to be vaccinated. He is vaccinated as part of the A2 sector (elderly group) in the vaccine priority list. Health Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo administered […]
(Eagle News) – Another 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived from China on Thursday, April 22, as scheduled, bringing the total number of Sinovac doses delivered to the country at 3 million. Total vaccine doses now reached 3.525 million including the 525,600 AstraZeneca doses from the COVAX Facility. The Philippine government said that the additional SInovac doses would be used to vaccinate those in the A1 to the A4 priority list. The A1 group […]
On April 22, 500k Sinovac doses, 20k SputnikV doses set for delivery (Eagle News) — More than 1.5 million more vaccine doses will be coming before the month ends, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. The 500,000 additional Sinovac doses will be coming this Thursday, April 22, and another 500,000 Sinovac doses will be delivered on April 29, Galvez told President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday. Galvez said 20,000 doses of Sputnik V […]
(Eagle News) – Over 500,000 Sinovac vaccine doses arrived in the Philippines on Sunday. The Bureau of Customs said the vaccine doses consigned to the Department of Health arrived via flight no. PR 361 from Beijing, China. The vaccines underwent pre-arrival clearance process through NAIA One-Stop-Shop and were cleared for release within 15 minutes. The shipment was immediately transferred to the Metropac facility “to ensure the integrity and security of the vaccines prior to distribution,” […]
FDA gives green light after PHL vaccine expert panel recommendation on Sinovac use for senior citizens, citing its safety and efficacy (Eagle News) – The Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration approved on Wednesday, April 7, the use of Sinovac vaccines for the elderly. FDA Director-General Undersecretary Eric Domingo said that they approved the Sinovac vaccine with the brand name Coronavac for use in the elderly or those aged 60 and above after the recommendation […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac said Friday a third production line for its Covid-19 vaccine has been put into use, doubling its annual capacity of the jabs to two billion doses. Its CoronaVac is one of four domestic vaccines given conditional approval by Chinese authorities, which helps rush emergency drugs to market. On Wednesday, experts from the World Health Organization said an interim analysis of clinical trial data from two Chinese vaccines, […]
by Nina Larson and Robin Millard, with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Two Chinese coronavirus jabs are safe and effective, WHO experts said Wednesday after reviewing partial data, providing a potential boost to countries from Australia to Europe struggling to roll out vaccines fast enough. Fewer than 600 million jabs have been given out across the world, three months after vaccination programmes began in earnest in Western countries and leaders […]
Total vaccine doses already in the PHL now at more than 2.5 million (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, March 29, welcomed the arrival of another batch of 1 million Sinovac doses under the brand name Coronavac that brought the total number of the Chinese-made jabs delivered to the country at 2 million. The vaccines arrived a month after the delivery of the first shipment of Sinovac doses that were donated by the […]
DOH: 1.5M vaccine supply so far delivered not enough to cover all medical frontliners (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated more than half a million health care workers, or more than 41 percent of the 1.7 million medical frontliners targeted as A1 priority in the country’s vaccine rollout against COVID-19. The rollout started on March 1. President Rodrigo Duterte stressed the importance of vaccinating all health care workers first before giving shots to […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong health authorities have ejected a private clinic from the city’s coronavirus vaccination programme after it reportedly recommended the German-made Pfizer/BioNTech shot to patients over the one from China’s Sinovac. The move illustrates the Hong Kong government’s sensitivity to any criticism of the Sinovac vaccine, which has a comparatively lower efficacy rate and was fast-tracked by regulators despite a lack of published data. The city’s health department said […]
(Eagle News) — Some 400,000 more doses of China’s Sinovac vaccines arrived in the country on Wednesday morning, March 24. With the additional doses, the total Sinovac vaccines in the country have reached 1 million. The first batch of 600,000 doses were delivered on Feb. 28, which were the first vaccine doses that the country received against COVID-19. “We are grateful for the arrival of additional donated vaccines. The arrival of these vaccines could […]
98 percent of vaccines delivered to PHL already distributed nationwide – Vergeire (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) has assured the public that there is no spoilage of COVID-19 vaccines in the Philippines as it reported a total of at least 336,656 vaccinated across the country. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that around 1.1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines already in the country have already been distributed. This is already 98 […]
