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Only 3.447 million vaccinated in Bayanihan Bakunahan Part 3 (Eagle News) – The Philippine government is studying what strategies to do next to convince the still unvaccinated members of the population to get Covid-19 jabs. This was after the government failed to reach its target to vaccinate five million people in its third national vaccination campaign, “Bayanihan Bakunahan,” even with the extension until last Friday, February 18. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said that only […]
Identifies provinces with high numbers of still unvaccinated senior citizens (Eagle News) – The World Health Organizaton recognized and congratulated the Philippine government for being able to vaccinate at least 70 percent of its eligible population, but stressed the need to vaccinate the 2.5 million senior citizens that had not received a primary dose. “So we congratulate the Philippine government for vaccinating over 60 million people so far, at least 70% of the eligible […]
Over 218 million vaccine doses delivered in PHL since February last year (Eagle News) – Over 450,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 arrived on Wednesday night, February 9, in time for the start of the third round of the national vaccination days to be held on Thursday and Friday. The shipment of 455,130 Pfizer doses would boost the February 10 to 11 national vaccination days where about two million vaccine doses for the […]
Decision is backed by data that jabs are safe for kids, says DOH; also cites backing of experts’ groups, and two major pediatric societies in the country (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that it would push through with the vaccination of 5 to 11 year old children on Monday, February 7. In a statement on Sunday, February 6, the DOH said that the Philippines would be joining countries like the United […]
Green, Yellow, Red risk classification of countries dropped effective today, Feb. 1, as int’l leisure travel to PHL allowed (Eagle News) – The Philippine government explained that its decision to allow fully vaccnayed international leisure travelers to come into the country and not undergo facility-based quarantine anymore is based on scientific data and had been studied carefully. Starting today, Tuesday, February 1, the Green, Yellow and Red risk classification for countries based on their […]
DOH targets to vaccinate 15.5 million kids aged 5 to 11 for entire immunization rollout (Eagle News) – Children aged five to 11, both those with comorbidities or those with no comorbidities, could get vaccinated during the pilot run of the vaccination of minors in this age group from February 4 to 11, 2022, the Department of Health said. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said that they target to vaccinate 15.5 million kids in this […]
Specially formulated Pfizer jabs for 5-11 age group to arrive on Feb. 2 (Eagle News) — The Philippine government set February 4 and 5 as the vaccination days that would target children aged five to 11 in Metro Manila, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. During the vaccination rollout for the five to 11 year-old kids, at least 24 hospital and non-hospital based facilities would be participating. Specially formulated Pfizer vaccines for […]
Plan is to have two sites per city in NCR, initially, and then expanded nationwide in pilot sites (Eagle News) – Starting February, the Philippine government will begin administering COVID-19 jabs to children aged five to 11 years as the specially formulated vaccines for this age group is set to arrive next week. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the pediatric vaccination could start on Feb. 4. He said that the National […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang encouraged Filipinos to get booster shots amid the continuing spread of COVID-19 and the highly infectious Omicron variant. The Palace also warned against spreading misinformation and disinformation on COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots as it clarified a video clip of President Rodrigo Duterte that was recorded on Sept. 30, 2021 that was being circulated recently to “campaign against the administration of booster shots.” In the video, Duterte said that two […]
Almost 120 million doses already administered nationwide; 56.4 million already fully vaccinated. (Eagle News) – The Philippines ranked third among ASEAN countries and 11th in Asia for having the most COVID-19 vaccines administered, according to Malacanang. In the ASEAN region as of January 17, 2022, Indonesia topped countries for having the most vaccine doses administered with 296,140,303 total administered doses and almost 1.3 billion doses daily rate of doses administered (7-day average), followed by […]
Only Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccine doses as booster shots to be used in pilot run since these jabs don’t need ultra-cold storage, according to DOH (Eagle News) – Walk-ins are allowed in the “Resbakuna sa Botika” program that starts today, Thursday, January 20, but they have to still online when they arrive in participating pharmacies which are part of the pilot implementation in Metro Manila. COVID-19 testing czar Secretary Vince Dizon said that the […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the fast-spreading Omicron variant is risk-free. “This pandemic is nowhere near over,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from WHO’s headquarters in Geneva. Tedros warned against dismissing as mild the coronavirus variant Omicron, which has spread like wildfire around the globe since it was first detected in southern Africa in November. The Omicron […]
