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Majority of vaccines this month coming from Pfizer, AstraZeneca (Eagle News) — Philippine vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez said that there will be three million vaccine doses against COVID-19 which will be coming in this February. In his report to President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Feb. 1, Galvez said that these 3 million vaccine doses will be among the first batches of the expected 148 million vaccine doses targeted for this year by the […]
Says EU trying to “hostage” AstraZeneca vaccines produced in European bloc (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte noted how the European Union (EU) had been pressuring Oxford-AstraZeneca on its vaccine supplies, as the European bloc threatened to block AstraZeneca vaccine exports outside EU. Duterte noted that this was just the way it is: rich countries will try to hog vaccines as supplies dwindle. Countries where the vaccines are manufactured will also naturally have the […]
Advises Galvez not to be discouraged by “brickbats” thrown at him by politicians (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte stressed that all payments for the vaccines that the Philippines will buy will be coming from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, as he chided critics claiming that there could be corruption in the vaccine deals. Duterte also reiterated how the vaccine deals would still have to pass through the Department of Finance, […]
https://youtu.be/bNfvZMmdJIM In Texas, they like to do things in a big way and immunizing people against Covid-19 is no exception. Eagle News correspondent Jane Kathleen Gregorio tells us about a huge vaccination effort being launched in the Coastal Bend region of the state. Watch details in this report from Eagle News International prepared by Eagle News Service’s North America bureaus (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News) — Starting today, Monday, Feb. 1 until Feb. 28, the Department of Health will hold the second phase of its Measles Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) amid the ongoing COVID-19 pademic and polio outbreak. The Phase 2 of the vaccination campaign will be done in the Visayas Regions, National Capital Region, Central Luzon and CALABARZON and aims to immunize close to 10 million children. “The Phase 2 […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — AstraZeneca will increase its coronavirus vaccine deliveries to the EU by 30 percent, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday as the bloc sought to claw back time lost rolling out the jabs. The British-Swedish company had announced last week that it could deliver only a quarter of the doses originally promised to the bloc for the first quarter of the year because of problems at one of its […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The EU backtracked Friday over threats to restrict vaccine exports to Northern Ireland after London voiced “grave concerns” over the proposed move. A furious row over shortages of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has risked stoking conflict with the UK just weeks after London and Brussels sealed a Brexit trade agreement. The EU had warned it would invoke Article 16 — overriding part of a deal with London allowing the free-flow of […]
(Eagle News) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that three clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines which it had earlier approved are about to begin in the country. These are the Phase 3 clinical trials for the vaccines developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals of Johnson and Johnson, Clover Biopharmaceuticals, and Sinovac. “So wala na po tayong pending ngayon na mga applications for clinical trials with FDA, and all these three clinical trials have been […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The African Union has secured an additional 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines for its members, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday. This comes on top of an earlier announcement by the AU that it had secured 270 million vaccine doses. Most African countries have not begun vaccinating their populations, lacking the financial means to purchase the drugs which have largely been scooped up […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that it has created “vaccine operation centers” nationwide in preparation for the arrival of vaccines against COVID-19. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the DOH has also set up the vaccine operation centers in all of the DOH’s regional offices, and have also downloaded the needed readiness assessment tools for all local government units. With these tools, Vergeire said that they can assess gaps in […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday lashed “vaccine nationalism,” accusing rich countries of bulk-buying coronavirus vaccines and hoarding them to the detriment of others. Addressing the all-virtual 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF), Ramaphosa said low- and middle-income countries were being shouldered aside by wealthier nations able to acquire “up to four times what their population needs”. “We are concerned about vaccine nationalism,” he warned. “Rich countries in the world are […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — AstraZeneca’s CEO insisted Tuesday that the company was not selling vaccines ordered by the European Union to other countries at a profit, after delayed orders sparked fury from EU leaders. The British-Swedish drugs firm admitted last week that it would not meet its contractual delivery commitments to the EU because of “reduced yields” in its European supply chain. That prompted European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to announce that the EU plans […]
