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So do I hide under the table now?” Delivered with a smile, this was the only answer that I could give in response to an apology coming from an official from the US Centers for Disease Control…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Central Visayas has already vaccinated 70 percent of its target population against COVID-19, a year since the vaccination campaign rolled out. In a recent press conference, the Department of Health in Central Visayas…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines – The Lapu-Lapu City Government has already masterlisted 1,023 healthcare medical frontliners who will first receive the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. Mae Cheryll Tepait, the national immunization program nurse coordinator of Lapu-Lapu City…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is seeking to include overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and minimum wage earners among the top priorities in receiving vaccines for coronavirus disease. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello II…
Several months and over 400,000 COVID-19 cases later, the Philippines has begun its long-awaited and promised process of acquiring vaccines as a means to end the pandemic. As early as April, President Duterte spoke optimistically of the…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas or DOH-7 emphasized the importance of having children immunized after the health agency recorded a 13 percent decline in eight months this year of children, who…
The Department of Health (DOH) urged local officials to ramp up their immunization programs once lockdown restrictions in their areas are eased, after the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused the vaccination rate nationwide to…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reminded parents on Saturday not to skip the essential vaccines for their young children even as the country grappled with the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Children…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has renewed its call on parents to get their children vaccinated against polio and other diseases to stop the cycle of viral infections. Dr. Jaime…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The children ages 5 years old and below, who have not completed their poliovirus immunization, will be the priority for Cebu City’s mass vaccination to prevent polio infection after its presence has been…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) is still studying the proposal from the Department of Health (DOH) to require to students to get vaccinated against measles, before accepting them to enroll. “Kinahanglan pa silang…
MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a vigorous campaign to promote the complete immunization for children after the Health department declared a measles outbreak in Metro Manila. Duterte’s order was made during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting in Malacañang,…
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