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(Eagle News) — The COVID-19 vaccines that the Philippines will acquire will first be given to areas with a high concentration of virus cases, and then to the poor and most vulnerable sectors of that region, including the front liners and first responders. COVID-19 vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., said that 60 million Filipinos are targeted for the vaccine distribution and this is meant to lead to the “herd immunity” of the entire population. […]
by Leila MACOR Agence France Presse A key facet of the global mad scramble by Pfizer, Moderna and other pharma groups to develop a viable coronavirus vaccine is the recruitment of tens of thousands of volunteers willing to participate in clinical trials. AFP’s correspondent in Miami, Leila Macor, took part in such a trial organized by US biotech firm Moderna, which announced Monday that its experimental vaccine was nearly 95 percent effective. Why did […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US plans to distribute 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the first week after it is cleared for emergency use, which is likely next month, officials said Tuesday. A committee of the Food and Drug Administration meets on December 10 to decide on whether to green light the medicine. General Gustave Perna, chief operations officer for the government’s Operation Warp Speed, told reporters some 40 million […]
(Eagle News) – Five COVID-19 vaccines are set to hold their clinical trials here in the country, which would make the access to these vaccines easier for Filipinos. This was according to the Philippine COVID vaccine czar Carlito Galvez in his report to President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night, Nov. 23. These five vaccines are among the nine which have already undergone Phase 3 clinical trials and have showed promising results. The five vaccine […]
by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — With Covid-19 vaccines on the horizon, the planet’s poorest must not be trampled as countries scramble to get their hands on them, the World Health Organization said Monday. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the latest batch of promising results from final-phase candidate vaccine trials showed there was light at the end of the “long dark tunnel” of the coronavirus pandemic. But he said the world had to […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Staff at Shanghai’s biggest international airport are facing mass testing after a small outbreak of Covid-19 in the city was linked to several cargo handlers, with plans underway to vaccinate high-risk workers. Life in China — where the virus first emerged late last year — has largely returned to normal following strict testing and harsh lockdowns, but there has been a series of sporadic local outbreaks over recent months. Shanghai has […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on Monday said their jointly-developed vaccine against Covid-19 has shown “an average efficacy of 70 percent” in trials. “This vaccine’s efficacy and safety confirm that it will be highly effective against Covid-19 and will have an immediate impact on this public health emergency,” AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot said in a statement. The results ranged between 62 and 90 percent efficacy […]
by AFP Bureaus TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s biggest city entered lockdown on Monday in the latest bid to curb coronavirus infections, with case numbers surging across North America even as US officials said vaccinations could be available within weeks. Encouraging results from several vaccine trials have raised hopes of a decisive shift in the battle against a disease that has claimed around 1.4 million lives worldwide in the last year. But seesawing restrictions and […]
by Anuj Chopra Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — G20 leaders said Sunday they will “spare no effort” to ensure fair distribution of coronavirus vaccines, but the united front was punctured by Germany’s Angela Merkel who voiced concern about slow progress. At a virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia, the world’s richest nations pledged resources to shore up the pandemic response, and to support poor countries whose economies have been ravaged by the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s strategy to curb a rise in coronavirus infections “is working”, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday as he unveiled details of plans to vaccinate much of the population next year. The country has recorded less than 400 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days, compared to nearly 530 cases at the start of the month, he told a news conference after a two-day online summit of G20 […]
by Agence France Presse bureaus WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States hopes to begin coronavirus vaccinations in early December, a top government health official said Sunday, the latest positive news to emerge even as cases surge across the worst-hit nation and elsewhere around the globe. The beginning of vaccinations could be a crucial shift in the battle against a virus that has claimed more than 1.4 million lives worldwide, including 255,000 just […]
(Eagle News) — The total number of repatriated Filipinos has reached 265,111 since February 2020, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The DFA said that it “continues in its ceaseless efforts to repatriate overseas Filipinos (OFs) affected by the pandemic” and reported the arrival of an additional 10,326 last week. So far, of the total repatriated Filipinas, 83,866 are seafarers (31.63%) while 181,245 (68.37%) are land-based OFs. The DFA said it mounted […]
