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No to vaccine nationalism

‘That’s not right; that’s not fair.’   This is how the world’s vaccination program, the most important global initiative to hold back the ravaging COVID-19 virus...

Stick to priority list–WHO

The Philippines must stick to the agreed priority to vaccinate medical front-liners, seniors and those with co-morbidities first to ensure the unhampered supply of...

Covax details rollout of 238M vaccine doses

Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia will be among the biggest recipients of free Covid-19 vaccines before June -- more than 10 million doses each --...

The Covid-19 Vaccine: The Basics

"No vaccinated person has been hospitalized for, or died from COVID-19."   Monday this week, COVID-19 mass vaccinations officially rolled out in the Philippines. On the last...

Ghana to receive world’s first doses of free Covax jabs

Ghana is to receive Wednesday the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free to...

No reason for confidence

"From where we sit, we are still losing the war to an unseen enemy." The country’s vaccine czar has been doing quite a bit of...

Vaccine challenges

"Things will not be easy but we will, sooner or later, get them right."   Let us be clear about things. With the world under lockdown...

New Covid-19 cases down 16 percent last week: WHO

The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 percent last week to 2.7 million, the World Health Organization said. The number...

Let the vaccines in

"Be proactive and scour the entire planet to get hold of the much-needed vaccines by any legal means possible."   The good news is that we...

70M assured of getting the jab

Herd immunity to COVID-19 is possible by the end of the year, if the vaccines that the government has negotiated to obtain arrive on...

PH gets 40m more doses

The Philippines will begin receiving COVID-19 vaccines in the first quarter this year through the COVAX Facility, a global procurement system that seeks to...

Poor nations grapple with vaccine access

Hailed this week as a pandemic game-changer, the new COVID-19 vaccine offered countries that had pre-ordered doses a potential escape from a cycle of...
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