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Fully vaccinate 70 percent of population by middle of next year, says WHO as Tedros airs appeal to beat COVID through cooperation, vaccine donations, info sharing (Eagle News) — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) asked member states and countries to beat and end the COVID-19 pandemic by fully vaccinating at least 40 percent of their population by year-end and 70 percent by the middle of next year. WHO Director General Dr. Tedros […]
“Bayanihan Bakunahan” target revised to 9 million for 3-day campaign; 2nd round set on Dec. 15 to 17 (Eagle News) – Malacanang advised Filipinos nationwide to take advantage of the three-day “Bayanihan, Bakunahan” national vaccination drive which started on Monday, November 29, amid the threat of the highly infectious Omicron Covid-19 variant. Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Alexei Nograles said that getting fully vaccinated is important to protect against the severe form of Covid-19. At […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States is shipping another four million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam, the White House said Tuesday, bringing the total of US doses donated globally to nearly 270 million. A senior administration official told AFP that 4,149,990 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are being sent, bringing the total delivered to Vietnam by the United States to 17,589,110 doses. Shipments began Tuesday. Globally, there have now been 268,472,780 doses sent […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government started on Wednesday, Nov. 17, giving booster shots to the country’s health workers, giving them the choice to pick their preferred COVID-19 vaccine brand. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for four vaccine brands as homologous boosters – Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna. This means these brands can be given as a third dose, for those who have received the same brand as first […]
Total COVID jabs administered in PHL close to 70 million doses as of Nov. 14 (Eagle News) – The country reached the milestone of administering around 1 million COVID jabs each day for the last three days of last week, as total administered vaccines nationwide reached almost 70 million doses, according to Malacanang “For three straight days in a row last week, pumapalo po tayo ng one million jabs,” said Secretary Roque in his […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German health authorities on Wednesday advised against the use of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for people under 30 due to evidence of a small risk of cardiac inflammation. The Stiko vaccine commission cited studies showing that mRNA jabs led in rare cases to the conditions myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart) in younger patients, with slightly higher prevalence in those who received […]
(Eagle News) — Below is the full joint statement of the economic managers of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte on the Philippine Economic Performance of the Third Quarter of 2021 issued on Nov. 9, 2021 President Duterte’s economic managers include Socio-Economic Planning and National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chief Karl Kendrick T. Chua, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez, and Budget And Management Officer-In-Charge Tina Rose Marie L. Canda ===================================================== Colleagues in government, friends […]
Weekend COVID jabs reached 462,160 on Sunday, Nov. 7, three days after PHL surpassed 1M vaccination target on Nov. 4 (Eagle News) — The Philippines recorded the highest number of vaccination against COVID-19 done on a weekend last Sunday, November 7, 2021, at 462,160, according to Malacanang. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday, Nov. 8, thanked Filipinos who decided to get vaccinated even on a weekend. “Alam naman natin na araw ng pahinga kasama […]
National Vaccination Day to be set this November targeting 5M Filipinos (Eagle News) – The Philippines has received over 110 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19, pushing vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., to have a more aggressive vaccination rollout. On Saturday, Nov. 6, an additional 866,970 doses of Pfizer vaccines procured by the government arrived in the country. This brought the total number of COVID-19 vaccines delivered so far to the country at […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang announced a major victory on Friday after the Philippines breached its target of having 1 million individuals vaccinated in a day. This was after the country vaccinated a total of 1,119,389 individuals on Thursday, November 4, after the government started COVID jabs for kids aged 12 years and older. “Good news pa rin po: Lumampas na tayo sa isang milyon na nabakunahan sa isang araw. Ito ay nangyari po kahapon, […]
Directs Galvez, PNP, AFP to use planes, choppers to deliver vaccines to far-flung towns (Eagle News) — The Philippines has so far received almost 109 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the arrival of 2.7 million more Sputnik V doses from Russia. But President Rodrigo Duterte is worried with some glitches or faults in “the over-all picture of the vaccination.” “As of today, nearly 109 million doses have arrived in the country. It is […]
(Eagle News) – More than 100 million COVID-19 vaccines have already been delivered to the Philippines as of Thursday, Oct. 28, as officials announced the country had breached its target a few days earlier than the set end-of-the-month deadline. The country received a total of 100,528,240 COVID-19 vaccine doses after the delivery on Thursday of 976,950 government-procured Pfizer-BioNTech jabs. “Today, we celebrate another milestone in our national vaccination program. Initially, there were those who […]
