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ILOILO CITY –– City governments under the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) are eyeing to purchase more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines being developed by drug manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas, chair…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is urging other city mayors to push through with the tripartite agreement with the national government in the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. Labella, who is the chairperson of…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has ordered the formation of a committee to study the vaccination plan and how to efficiently achieve the desired herd immunity against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). In…
MANILA, Philippines — Two types of COVID-19 vaccines may arrive in the country as early as February, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. “May portfolio po tayo na iba’t ibang mga bakuna (We have a portfolio…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Medical workers, the police, contact tracers, and frontliners in Cebu City will be the first to be inoculated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine should it arrive anytime soon. This was the…
BERLIN — It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this.” Sahin “had concluded from a publication…
MADRID/ROMEO—Europe launched a massive COVID-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide.…
The recent brouhaha about somebody “dropping the ball” with regard to getting 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by end January hasn’t gotten the public attention it deserves. Maybe this is because government authorities—the executive, the…
MANILA, Philippines — As nations scrambled to secure doses of coronavirus vaccine from drug manufacturers, the Philippines’ Health chief had been accused of “dropping the ball” in acquiring the vaccine deal with a United States-based pharmaceutical. Serious…
MANILA, Philippines — US pharmaceutical firm never promised to provide the Philippine government with 10 million doses of its coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) upon the signing of a Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA) between the two parties, Health…
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…
MANILA, Philippines — American pharmaceutical company Pfizer is asking people still wary of getting the vaccine against the new coronavirus to “think twice” should they opt not to be immunized as such a decision provides an opportunity…
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