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Makati handang bakunahan mas maraming bata vs. COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 29 02:47 PM

Handa na ang lungsod ng Makati sa pagpapalawig ng bakunahan kontra COVID-19 sa mga kabataang 12 hanggang 17 anyos na walang health risks. Read more »

ALAMIN: COVID-19 vaccination ng general public

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 12:55 PM

Iiral pa rin kung ano ang ipinatupad ng mga lokal na pamahalan sa pagpapabakuna ng general population at saka ng mga menor de edad sa Oktubre. Read more »

‘Napakabuti sa atin’: PH to donate $1M to COVAX vaccine program, says Duterte

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 01 05:08 AM

Duterte on Monday said he answered the call for donations to give back to the COVAX initiative, which has helped the Philippines several times. Read more »

OFWs going to Saudi Arabia still subject to quarantine if inoculated with China vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 31 08:13 AM

Overseas Filipino workers deployed to Saudi Arabia will still need to be swabbed and quarantined for 10 days even if they have been inoculated with China-made COVID-19 vaccines, the labor department said Monday.  Read more »

More Metro Manila cities begin rolling out Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 13 10:02 PM

More cities in Metro Manila begin inoculating their residents with COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and BioNTech. Read more »

Hong Kong scraps mandatory vaccines for foreign domestic workers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 11 01:57 PM

Hong Kong on Tuesday scrapped a plan to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after the proposal sparked an outcry and a diplomatic tussle with the Philippines. Read more »

Putin backs Russia waiving patents on its COVID-19 jabs

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 02:35 AM

French, German and EU leadership said they were ready to discuss a proposal by US President Joe Biden, before Putin added his support. Read more »

US says vaccinated people can go mask-free outdoors most of the time

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 28 07:34 AM

WASHINGTON - Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to mask up outdoors when there is no crowd, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, before celebrating by taking his first short walk at the White House without the face covering. Read more »

Firm looks to build vaccine manufacturing plant in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 12 07:44 PM

A local company is looking to build a vaccine manufacturing plant in the Philippines through a collaboration between the government and the private sector, its CEO said Monday. Read more »

Galvez: PH expecting more than 2-M vaccine doses before March ends

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 23 12:04 AM

MANILA (UPDATED) - The Philippines is set to receive more than 2 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses from Sinovac and AstraZeneca before the month ends, the country's vaccine czar said Monday. Read more »

Chinese teams looking for vaccines for COVID-19 variants for ‘a long time’, expert says

Mimi Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 28 01:47 PM

Researchers have been ‘tracking and analyzing a global database of COVID-19 patients’, military scientist Chen Wei says. Work ‘began a long time ago for a new and stronger vaccine targeting mutations’, she says. Read more »

Envoy says UK won’t tie recruitment of PH nurses with vaccine supply

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 24 05:37 PM

MANILA - The United Kingdom has no plans to tie the recruitment of Filipino nurses with the supply of COVID-19 vaccines for the Philippines. Read more »

PH gov't submits indemnification agreements to COVAX

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 17 10:05 PM

The Philippine Senate may soon ratify a bill that will compensate COVID-19 vaccine recipients who experience adverse effects. Read more »

PH signs indemnification agreement with COVAX Facility

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 11:40 PM

The Philippines inches closer to receiving an initial supply of COVID-19 vaccines as it signs an indemnification agreement with the COVAX Facility. Read more »

Caloocan hospital says it's ready for COVID-19 vaccine rollout

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 11:20 PM

Government hospitals in Metro Manila are gearing up for the Philippines' vaccination drive against COVID-19. Read more »

Duterte defends decision to buy China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 11:52 PM

Duterte claimed Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine is just as good as those made by other manufacturers. Read more »

PH to sign deal for 20-M vaccine doses from AstraZeneca

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 13 10:13 PM

The Philippine government and Britain's drug maker AstraZeneca enter a tripartite deal to secure COVID-19 vaccines for local governments. Read more »

Galvez defends purchase of Sinovac vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 13 10:06 PM

The Philippine government defended its purchase of coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinovac, which have been found to be less effective than previously suggested. Read more »

Survey shows nearly half of all Filipinos unwilling to take COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 07 09:59 PM

A new survey in the Philippines reveals the hesitancy of many Filipinos to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Read more »

DOH says COVID-19 vaccines may be delivered to PH by February

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 06 12:02 AM

(UPDATE) Vaccines for the novel coronavirus may be delivered to the Philippines as early as February, a Department of Health official said Tuesday. Read more »