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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thailand on Tuesday defended mixing two different Covid-19 vaccines to battle a surge in infections, after the WHO’s top scientist warned it was a “dangerous trend” not backed by evidence. The kingdom is struggling to contain its latest outbreak fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant, with cases and deaths skyrocketing and the healthcare system stretched thin. Authorities said they will mix a first dose of the Chinese-made Sinovac jab with […]
Senior citizens to be prioritized for single-dose J&J jab (Eagle News) — More than 3 million doses of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the COVAX Facility would be delivered to the country by July 19, further boosting the vaccine rollout. Because J&J vaccines only require a single for full vaccination, this means faster period for more Filipinos to be fully vaccinated. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, the chair of the National Vaccination Operations […]
(Eagle News) – The country has fully vaccinated more than 3.5 million Filipinos as of Monday, July 12, while those given just first doses reaching 9.6 million. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, who also chairs the National Vaccination Operations Center, said that more than 13.1 million so far have been administered vaccines against COVID-19. She said that by end of July or in August, the country can administer 200,000 to 300,000 jabs per day. In […]
Malacanang lauds the country’s historic initial victory against the COVID-19 pandemic (Eagle News) – San Juan City announced it had already vaccinated with the first dose 70 percent of its population, representing the initial victory of the country against the COVID-19 pandemic. With this declaration, San Juan City is the first ever city in the country to achieve the vaccination of its target population using the first dose. It also aims to achieve herd […]
(Eagle News) – Philippine vaccine experts are now studying using Pfizer as a third dose or booster shot, according to the chair of the National Vaccination Operations Center. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said that the Philippine government is in fact already preparing to get more Pfizer doses for this purpose by the end of the year in case a booster shot is indeed needed. Cabotaje said that the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) […]
(Eagle News) – More than three million Filipinos are now fully vaccinated, according to Malacanang. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that 3,089,976 Filipinos have been given the complete two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines as of July 7, 2021, based on data from the National COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard. “Conservative number pa po ito at inaasahan natin na tataas pa ang bilang kapag dumating na ang mga numero mula sa mga lokal […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Health workers in coronavirus-hit Indonesia will get a third booster jab using the Moderna vaccine, authorities said Friday, after several fully inoculated medics died from Covid-19. The Southeast Asian nation, battling its most serious outbreak to date driven by the Delta variant, has relied heavily on the Chinese-made Sinovac jab in its vaccine roll-out. But out of 1,000 medical workers who have died of Covid-19, more than a dozen were […]
Total AstraZeneca doses in PHL at over 5.7M doses, total COVID jab doses reach 20.6M (Eagle News) – Over two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived on Friday, July 9, from the COVAX Facility, bringing to over 5.7 million doses the total AstraZeneca vaccines that have been delivered to the country. The flight that carried the 2,028,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived at the NAIA Terminal 3 past 4 p.m. The delivery was welcomed by […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte thanked the government of Japan for donating over 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to the country. The additional 1 million AstraZeneca doses from Japan that arrived on Thursday night, July 8, brought the total number of vaccine doses so far delivered to the Philippines at over 18.5 million. President Duterte himself witnessed the arrival of the vaccine doses from Japan, saying this would help the county […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Chinese CoronaVac jab, a key tool in Brazil’s fight against Covid-19, is less effective against the Gamma variant first detected in the virus-ravaged South American country, a study said Friday. Researchers found that antibodies generated by the vaccine work less well against the variant than a previous coronavirus strain, while Gamma may also be able to reinfect people who had previously had the virus. Gamma’s capacity to evade these […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0b0tIFWEmw (Eagle News) – Local governments in various provinces have expressed their apprehension on possible increase in COVID-19 cases if fully vaccinated individuals would be allowed to travel within the country without requiring them to undergo first COVID-19 testing. This was relayed by Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., who also serves as the national president of the League of Provinces of the Philippines and national chairman of the Union of Local Authorities of the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJtZX_68bE The Eagle News Service program “Balitalakayan” interviews Food and Drug Administration Director General Undersecretary Eric Domingo on the various issues surrounding vaccines which have already been given emergency use authorization, including the application of Sinovac to extend its EUA so the vaccine could also be administered to children aged 3 to 17 years old. Balitalakayan, anchored by Weng dela Fuente, airs Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on NET25 and […]
