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Senate moves to replace 'vaccine passport' with 'COVID-19 vaccine card'

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 23 12:03 AM

The Philippine Senate has adopted to replace the controversial terminology, “vaccine passport”, with “COVID-19 vaccine card” during the period of amendments on Monday on the proposed measure expediting the procurement and administration of coronavirus vaccines. Read more »

LGUs, private firms told to follow gov't standards on COVID-19 vaccine storage

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 09:59 PM

MANILA - Local government units (LGUs) and private companies that have entered into tripartite agreements for procurement of COVID-19 vaccines were told to observe national government-set vaccine cold storage standards and not just resort to their own refrigeration measures. Read more »

Villanueva asks: Should patients who recovered from COVID-19 get vaccinated?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 22 03:37 PM

Should patients who recovered from COVID-19 get vaccinated against the respiratory disease?  Read more »

'Financial interest'? FDA chief says Rep. Arroyo letter on Sinopharm vaccine 'not unusual'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 22 03:12 PM

The head of the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that a letter from Pampanga 2nd District Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo offering information on a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine was “not unusual”, even as a senator questioned the lawmaker's potential financial interest in the drug.  Read more »

Senators deny favoring any COVID-19 vaccine brand after Duterte remarks

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 12:35 PM

At least 2 senators on Friday denied that a legislative probe into the country's COVID-19 inoculation drive favors any vaccine brand, contrary to insinuations by President Rodrigo Duterte.    Read more »

Senators want to allow procurement of preferred COVID-19 vaccine by private firms, LGUs

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 02:17 PM

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said lawmakers would push to allow private companies and local governments to procure their preferred brand of COVID-19 vaccine. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 11, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 12:28 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »