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Palace: no serious adverse events reported from those given COVID vaccines so far (Eagle News) – The Philippines received 50,000 more doses of Sputnik V vaccines on Sunday night, May 30, bringing to 80,000 the total doses of the Russian-made vaccine in the country. Malacanang said that the new Sputnik vaccine doses would be given to “centers of gravity” or areas with high concentration of COVID-19 cases. “Ang latest vaccine naman na ito ay […]
Shift to a lower quarantine protocol, possibly GCQ, seen in Metro Manila for June (Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 cases continued to increase on Sunday, May 30, with the highest rise in cases occurring in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. New cases added on Sunday were 7,058, bringing the total active cases nationwide to 53,757. This represents 4.4 percent of the total cases of 1,223,627. This is the third straight day that […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany will start offering coronavirus jabs to children over the age of 12 from June 7, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday. But she stressed that vaccination would not be compulsory and would have no bearing on whether children can attend school or go on holiday. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab for 12- to 15-year-olds on Friday. It is already authorised in the EU for […]
(Eagle News) – The Food and Drug Administration said that it would issue an amendment to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) it has issued to Pfizer vaccines that would allow the doses to be given to those aged 12 to 15 years old. FDA Director General Undersecretary Eric Domingo said this after the Pfizer applied for an amendment of its EUA so the Pfizer doses could also be given to children in this age group. […]
Roque, Dizon stress those trying to sell vaccine slots, and COVID jabs would be penalized (Eagle News) — Malacanang directed local government units to pass an ordinance that would penalize persons who will sell their vaccine slots, as it warned others trying to sell vaccines online. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said passing such ordinances is part of the government’s effort to address illegal selling of the COVID-19 vaccines that are being given for free to […]
Mayor says no such illegal sale of vaccines in San Juan after initial investigation, expresses confidence in the integrity of his people (Eagle News) — San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said that an initial probe that the city has conducted on the reported illegal selling of vaccines in the city found that this was being done online by scammers. He said that were able to contact the person who was offered the vaccine […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government is investigating reports that COVID-19 vaccines that are supposed to be given for free are being sold in the market. In a statement released by Malacanang, it said that “the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 is deeply concerned with reports it has received regarding the illicit selling of anti-COVID vaccines.” “We are investigating this matter,” Malacanang said in a release. “We would like to remind everyone that anti-COVID […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered a probe into the “under-the-table” sale of government-purchased COVID-19 vaccines. Eleazar gave the order to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, following viral social media posts showing the sale of vaccine slots in some local government units. The prices depend on the COVID-19 vaccine brand, Eleazar said, and range from P10,000 to P15,000. “Ang mga bakuna ay donasyon at binili ng ating pamahalaan para ibigay ng […]
Total Sinovac doses delivered as of May 20 reach 5.5 million (Eagle News) – An additional 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines under the brand name CoronaVac arrived in the country on Thursday morning, May 20. This brought the total Sinovac vaccine doses delivered so far at 5.5 million, and over-all total of COVID vaccine doses of 8.2 million. The new vaccine doses will be delivered to Metro Manila and other regions and provinces with […]
Duterte says vaccination should be done day and night if possible so there’ll be no wastage of expiring vaccines (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a much faster vaccine rollout, directing his vaccine czar to start giving the vaccine doses to the country’s essential workers, including policemen and soldiers, and also to the poor communities, so millions of people would get immunized against COVID-19, and the country could achieve herd immunity faster. Duterte […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi and Britain’s GSK reported on Monday “strong immune responses” in early tests of their Covid-19 vaccine, raising hopes it could join the fight against the pandemic. The companies said the results of the Phase 2 study will enable them to move to a late-stage trial in the coming weeks — a reversal of fortune after their research was dealt a setback late last year. The experimental vaccine […]
Pfizer doses to be distributed to Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, other major cities that can handle jab’s -70 °C storage requirement (Eagle News) — The initial 193,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country on Friday night, May 10. This was part of the first batch of a total of 1.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccines from the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility expected this month, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., […]
