Tag: vaccines

Palace: Over 18.7M already vaccinated after PHL records nearly 660k jabs in a day

More than 7.2 million already fully vaccinated, as PHL hits target of over 500k jabs/day since July 27 Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque holds a press briefing on Thursday, July 29, 2021 (Screenshot of PCOO video)  (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated at least 18.7 million individuals, with more than 7.2 million already fully vaccinated. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced this on Thursday, July 29, as he expressed confidence that the country could achieve population […]

AstraZeneca searching for vaccines for virus-hit Southeast Asia

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus. The statement from the Anglo-Swedish company — which produces its vaccine in Thailand for use domestically and in neighbouring countries — comes in the wake of a supply shortage which has sparked heavy criticism of Thai Premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s […]

PHL finds 17 more new Delta cases bringing total Delta variant cases to 64

Nine of 12 new local Delta cases found in Metro Manila, 3 in CALABARZON   (Eagle News) — At least 17 more Delta variant cases were detected by the Department of Health, 12 of which are local cases, bringing to 64 the total Delta variant cases as of Saturday, July 24. Nine of the local cases have addresses in Metro Manila, the DOH said. The Philippine Genome Center and the National Institutes of Health of […]

562,770 Pfizer doses, 1.5M Sinovac doses arrive in PHL; total COVID jab doses now at nearly 30M

  (Eagle News) – The Philippines received over half a million Pfizer doses and another 1.5 million Sinovac doses as of Thursday, July 22, bringing to nearly 30 million doses the total COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the country since February. The 562,770 doses of government-procured Pfizer-BioNTech anti-COVID vaccines arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday night, July 21, via DHL Flight LD457. This was part of the 40 million Pfizer doses which the national government secured […]

COVID-19 safety tips for unvaccinated children and their families

(Eagle News) — Do you or someone you know belong to a household with both vaccinated and unvaccinated kids? EBC’s Pennsylvania bureau Maila Simbulan tells us how Pennsylvania is reaching out to children and their parents to provide COVID safety tips as schools are set to resume in the US this fall.   (Eagle News Service)

Over 15 million Filipinos already vaccinated, with 4.7 million completing 2 doses

More than 10.3 million already received first COVID-19 vaccine doses   (Eagle News) – The Philippines has already vaccinated more than 15 million Filipinos as the total vaccines delivered in the country reached more than 27.9 million doses. Philippine vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez reported to President Rodrigo Duterte on July 19, that there were around 15.1 million total vaccine doses that had already been administered. Of this number, more than 10.3 million (or 10,388,188) […]

Indonesia reports record number of COVID deaths at over 1,300 in 24 hours

Indonesia overtaking India as Asia’s COVID-19 epicenter   Skyrocketing Covid-19 infections and deaths are hammering hospitals in Indonesia which is overtaking India as Asia’s coronavirus epicentre. Desperate patients lining up at hospitals for days before getting proper treatment, as the government has advised infected people with mild symptomps to self quarantine. Many, however, ended up dying at homes. Workers from local community health centers and volunteers have taken the job to go house to house […]

England lifts Covid curbs as scientists warn of surge in cases

  by Jitendra JOSHI Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The British government on Monday lifted pandemic restrictions on daily life in England, scrapping all social distancing in a step slammed by scientists and opposition parties as a dangerous leap into the unknown. From midnight (2300 GMT Sunday), nightclubs were able to reopen and other indoor venues allowed to run at full capacity, while legal mandates covering the wearing of masks and working […]

Millions of vaccine doses from AstraZeneca, J&J and Sinovac arrive in PHL in a span of two days

Over 5.85M vaccine doses delivered in 2 days bringing total jab doses in PHL to over 26M (Eagle News) In a span of two days, the Philippines received over 5.85 million doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines including the 3.2 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot Janssen vaccines that arrived on Friday, July 16, and Saturday, July 17. Among the recent vaccine deliveries were the 1.15 million AstraZeneca doses which arrived on Friday morning, and […]

Muntinlupa suspends use of Pfizer doses that may have been inappropriately stored in a mall

(Eagle News) – Muntinlupa City said that a still undetermined number of Pfizer doses may have been inappropriately stored at the Festival Mall facility that could have affected its efficacy and would thus not be used anymore. In a statement, the Muntinlupa City government said that based on their initial study the Pfizer doses at the Festival Mall had not been stored at the required temperature for this type of vaccine. “Ayon sa inisyal na […]

Over 14 million Filipinos receive COVID jabs, with over 4 million already fully vaccinated

  (Eagle News) – The Philippines has administered more than 14 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Wednesday, July 14, with more than 10 million Filipinos having received the first dose, and over 4 million already fully vaccinated. This was announced by Malacanang on Thursday, July 15. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that those given first doses (10,026,772) already covered 14.32 percent of the country’s targeted population. While those given second doses (4,047,792) were 5.78 […]

1M more Sinovac doses arrive bringing to over 21.7M doses total vaccines delivered to PHL

  (Eagle News) – Another 1 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccines against COVID-19 arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday, bringing to more than 21.7 million doses the total jabs delivered to the country since Feb. 28. The 1 million Sinovac doses delivered this morning is part of the 26 million CoronaVac doses that have been purchased by the Philippine government for this year. With the delivery, there are now 13 million Sinovac doses in […]