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Total COVID-19 vaccines doses delivered to the PHL reach over 12.5 million (Eagle News) – The Philippines received the biggest shipment of vaccines against COVID-19 in a single day on Thursday, June 10, after the arrival of over 2.27 million Pfizer doses, and 1 million additional Sinovac doses, or a total of 3.27 million vaccine doses. The 2,279,160 doses of Pfizer vaccines were also the biggest Pfizer shipment delivered to the country, coming from […]
(Eagle News) – Senior citizens who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can now go out of their homes in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified GCG (MGCQ), Malacanang said. Inter-zonal travel for senior citizens, however, is still prohibited, according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque. The Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) decided on this on Thursday, June 10. Roque said that senior citizens who would go out of their […]
(Eagle News) – Some 6.3 million have already received COVID-19 vaccines in the country, with 1.6 million already receiving both first and second doses, according to a Department of Health official. DOH Director for Field Implementation and Coordination Team Napoleon Arevalo said that some areas in Metro Manila also had to suspend vaccination as there was a lack of supplies noted among many local government units. Arevalo said that the good news is that […]
But DOH Usec Vergeire says adult priority groups to first be given Pfizer doses (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) welcomed the decision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to amend the emergency use authorization given to Pfizer vaccine so it could be given to 12 to 15 years old. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the Pfizer vaccines could be given to adolescents or teenagers once more vaccine supplies […]
Galvez says 10 million more vaccine doses would be delivered this month (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated some six million individuals against COVID-19, with some 1.5 million getting full vaccination after the second dose of the jab. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the six million vaccine doses administered would be breached by Tuesday at the earliest or this week. He said that there are around 10 million vaccine doses […]
NCR still the region with most no. of active cases at over 11k, according to DOH data (Eagle News) – New COVID-19 cases continued to rise as 7,228 new infections were reported on Sunday, June 6. This brought the number of total active cases to 59,997, or 4.7 percent of the total number of confirmed cases (1,269,478). On Saturday, June 5, there were 6,955 new Covid cases reported. It was even higher at 7,450 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at next week’s G7 summit will urge leaders to commit to vaccinate the whole world against coronavirus by the end of 2022, Downing Street said Saturday. Britain will host the event in Cornwall in southwestern England starting June 11 with leaders of France, Italy, Japan, Germany, the United States and Canada attending. The British prime minister will call on fellow G7 leaders to make […]
Galvez said bulk of vaccines to be brought to Visayas in Mindanao areas with high COVID cases (Eagle News) – Another million doses of Sinovac vaccines from China arrived in the country on Sunday morning, June 6, bringing the country’s total of vaccine doses so far delivered at around 9.3 million. This is the first shipment of vaccines delivered for the month of June. This also brings to 6.5 million the total Sinovac doses that […]
Safety and efficacy of using diffrent vaccines as 1st and 2nd dose to be known (Eagle News) – Some 3,000 participants are targeted for clinical trials set for July that will focus on mixing and matching vaccines for first and second doses to be able to determine if this is safe and effective for Filipinos. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that the clinical trials will use a total of five vaccines, […]
PHL achieves 150k jabs a day, 1M per week; over 5M doses already administered (Eagle News) – The Philippines has been able to administer over 5 million vaccine doses before the end of May, and has vaccinated over three million individuals, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. In his report to President Rodrigo Duterte, Galvez said that the country was also able to triple the number of people vaccinated this May compared […]
Duterte: “It’s our turn also to return the goodwill that they (COVAX) have shown” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said the Philippines will be donating $1 million to the COVAX Facility in response to its request for aid, and as a sign of gratitude of its big help in donating millions of doses of vaccines to the country. COVAX which is operating under the World Health Organization has so far donated over 2.5 […]
Tells vaccine czar to start distributing more vaccines to areas with high COVID cases (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte mandated local officials to fast track the vaccination of people as the country starts administering COVID-19 jabs to economic frontliners (A4 category) and the poor (A5 category). Duterte in his “Talk To The People” on Monday night, May 31, also directed vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., to distribute immediately the vaccines “pro rata” […]
