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Some 20,000 participants sought for WHO Solidarity trial for vaccines

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 05:28 PM

The trial is looking for participants in barangays with an average daily attack rate (ADAR) of more than 1 percent with a population of about 5,000. Read more »

DOH to meet with WHO Saturday to discuss implementation of vaccine trials

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 11 05:28 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health and representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) will be meeting on Saturday to discuss the roll-out of the latter’s multi-country vaccine trials.  Read more »

WHO eyes 2 vaccine brands for clinical trial in PH: technical panel

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 04 04:14 PM

The World Health Organization’s multi-country clinical trial for COVID-19 vaccines will likely start early next year, according to the Philippines’ vaccine expert panel.    Read more »

Clinical trials of 2 Chinese COVID-19 vaccines may start yearend or early 2021— DOST

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 27 02:47 PM

MANILA — The Department of Science and Technology estimates that the Philippines might start its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials with two vaccine developers by the end of 2020 or the start of next year. Read more »

FDA to decide on first COVID-19 vaccine trial application in 1-2 weeks

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 30 05:44 PM

MANILA — The Food and Drug Administration might release its decision on the application of COVID-19 vaccine developer Sinovac Biotech Ltd. in a few weeks. Read more »

PH working to reach 4,000 participants for WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine trials

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 28 03:43 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Monday said it has decided to expand the number of participants they will recruit for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.   Read more »

WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in PH to start in December

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 26 09:47 PM

MANILA — The start date for the World Health Organization’s clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines was moved further to December 2020, the Department of Health said Monday. Read more »

PH gov’t open to having more Filipinos volunteer for WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine trials

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 06:15 PM

MANILA — The Philippine government said it would be amenable to raising its target number of participants for the local run of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 vaccine trial.  Read more »

Sinopharm calls off COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in PH, Sinovac awaits ethics review

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 16 05:23 PM

MANILA — A Chinese vaccine developer backed out of initial plans to hold clinical trials in the Philippines, according to the Department of Science and Technology on Friday. Read more »

‘Best case scenario’: COVID-19 vaccine approval in PH may come by April 2021, says FDA

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 25 01:54 PM

MANILA — The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday said approval of a COVID-19 vaccine in the country may come in April next year— the best case scenario. Read more »