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J&J Covid booster highly effective against severe omicron: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 31 01:23 PM

When a booster shot was given six to nine months after the first dose, vaccine efficacy against hospitalization increased over time, from 63 percent at 0-13 days to 85 percent one to two months post-boost. Read more »

Over 2.5-M Moderna COVID-19 vaccines arrive in PH

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 11:46 PM

MANILA - Over 2.5 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the Philippines Wednesday night. Read more »

PH vaccines cross 200-M mark with new Moderna jabs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 27 06:33 PM

The Philippines' total number of acquired COVID-19 vaccines has breached the 200 million mark after it received 587,800 Moderna jabs on Monday. Read more »

PH receives over 1.5 million donated Moderna jabs

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 06:22 PM

The Philippines on Thursday received more than 1.5 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the German government, authorities said. Read more »

'Variant-specific' na bakuna vs. COVID-19 pinag-aaralan

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 23 02:42 PM

Pinag-aaralan umano ang paggawa ng variant-specific na mga bakuna kontra COVID-19, ayon sa pinuno ng Food and Drug Administration. Read more »

Moderna says booster shot effective vs omicron

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 21 12:51 PM

Moderna said it will continue to develop an omicron-specific vaccine, given the 'long-term threat' demonstrated by the new variant's immune escape, expecting to advance into clinical trials in early 2022. Read more »

PH gets over a million doses of Moderna vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 19 04:35 PM

The Philippines on Sunday received over a million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines, raising its jab supply as it continued to ramp up inoculations. Read more »

PH receives over 900K more Moderna jabs from Germany

Anna Cerezo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 18 02:30 AM

The newest batch is part of around 9 million more donations expected to be delivered by EU member nations by the end of the 2021. Read more »

PH gets over 1 million donated Moderna COVID-19 jabs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 06:15 PM

The 1,020,500 doses, coursed through the UN-led vaccine sharing platform COVAX, arrived in Manila before 4 p.m. through Singapore Airlines Flight SQ912. Read more »

Vast study confirms rare heart risk from Moderna jab

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 08:02 AM

The Moderna Covid jab carries a slight risk of usually non-serious heart problems a study of the entire population of Denmark found Friday. Read more »

CDC panel to recommend mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over J&J's

Michael Erman, Reuters
Posted at Dec 17 07:02 AM

A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. CDC voted to recommend Americans choose to receive one of the other two authorized COVID-19 vaccines. Read more »

Over 10 million COVID-19 doses arrive in PH

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 16 12:41 AM

The biggest delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day yet arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday, the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said. Read more »

Over 2.4 million donated Janssen, Moderna jabs arrive

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 04:56 PM

The newly-delivered shots numbering 2,457,600 arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Read more »

DOH, COVID-19 task force say ensuring syringe supply

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 12 03:55 PM

The DOH and NTF Against COVID-19 said Sunday they are continuously ensuring that the supply of syringes in the country is sufficient. Read more »

PH adds 3.6 million Moderna, AstraZeneca jabs to vaccine arsenal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 10 12:59 PM

National Task Force against COVID-19 Special Adviser Dr. Teodoro Herbosa urged eligible Filipinos for vaccination or booster shots to already get theirs amid the threat of the more transmissible omicron variant. Read more »

Mix-and-match ng COVID-19 vaccines, mas mainam umano

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 07 06:51 PM

Lumabas sa isang pag-aaral sa UK na mas mataas ang immunity na naibibigay kapag magkaiba ang ginamit na 1st at 2nd dose ng COVID-19 vaccine. Read more »

Mixing Pfizer, AstraZ COVID-19 shots with Moderna gives better immune response: UK study

Pushkala Aripaka and Lucy Marks, Reuters
Posted at Dec 07 11:25 AM

A major British study into mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that people had a better immune response when they received a first dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech shots followed by Moderna nine weeks later. Read more »

PH gets nearly 1.5M doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 06 09:16 PM

Nearly 1.5 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines on Monday afternoon, further raising the country's vaccine supply. Read more »

Brain problems found in 1% of hospitalized COVID patients

Nancy Lapid, Reuters
Posted at Dec 03 10:47 AM

Roughly one in every 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 will likely have central nervous system complications, researchers reported on Tuesday. Read more »

PH to receive first batch of syringes for mRNA vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 03 11:03 AM

The Philippines is set to receive some 4 million syringes needed to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, a health official said Friday. Read more »