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Who gets shot?

"One thing is certain—we cannot wait for the “best vaccine,” and we just have to take whatever government and the private sector is making...

Bacolod serves first COVID jab in West Visayas

BACOLOD—The president of the Negros Occidental Medical Society and the president of the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases- Negros Occidental Chapter and...

Protection

Doctor Ricardo Runez, chief of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, receives the first shot of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine which arrived in...

Cebu, Davao receive 9,000 Sinovac doses

Cebu City and Davao City received Tuesday thousands of doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine as the government ramped up its vaccination drive against the...

Supervised

Marikina Mayor Marcy Teodoro (left) and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (2nd from left) peer over the shoulder of a frontline health worker receiving...

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...

The ‘middle kingdom’ reaches out

"Tapping a trillion-dollar market"   Last Sunday, some half a million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac were airlifted into Manila—the very first vaccine to actually...

Abandoned parents

"This is against the Asian culture of filial piety."   Santa Banana, there is a growing number of parents who are abandoned and who are suffering...

Tight watch

Marikina Police stand guard at the Metro Pac Movers Inc. facilities in Marikina City, where the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine was to be stored upon...

Sinovac sets off vax rollout

President Duterte welcomed the arrival of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China, saying he was confident that more doses would soon be...

Doing right by our frontliners

"Our officials brought this desperation upon themselves." At the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns nearly a year ago, we extolled our medical frontliners—doctors, nurses and...

Rody thumbs down face-to-face classes

President Rodrigo Duterte said he would still not allow the resumption of face-to-face classes even with the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in the country. “Not...

Vaccine crisis and opportunity

The Philippines is faced with a COVID-19 vaccine crisis. There is a global shortage of the vaccines precipitated by the massive demand in rich...

Bargain hunting lifts stocks; BPI, BDO gain

Stocks rose Friday on bargain hunting as the Philippines awaits the arrival of the  first batch of COVID-19 vaccines Sunday from China’s Sinovac. The Philippine Stock...
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