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DOH studying commercial sale of COVID vax

The Philippines is moving a step closer toward making COVID-19 vaccines available commercially with the creation of Task Force Edward that will work on...

Angeles rolls out vax bus among schools

Angeles City –With the opening of classes on Monday, the city government will roll out its Ronda Bakuna Bus project to administer the COVID-19...

PH won’t get monkeypox vax this year, maybe 2023

The Philippines is not likely to get access to monkeypox vaccines this year due to rising demand for the jab, the Department of Health...

New US strategy to make monkeypox vaccine go further

US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to inoculate more people with...

Manila to tap US for fertilizer supply, vaccine devt

Manila and Washington are in talks for possible fertilizer access and modernization of the agriculture sector as well as vaccine development and manufacturing. “We recognize...

Long before expiry date: ‘Private sector had option to donate vaccines to LGUs’

The government on Friday said private companies that had bought COVID-19 vaccines that have expired knew what to do with them as early as...

Experts push boosters vs. ‘Centaurus’ variant

COVID-19 booster doses could be effective in fighting off the BA.2.75 subvariant, a member of the Advisory Council of Experts said Thursday. An infectious diseases...

High Vaccine Coverage, Vaccine Suitability, crucial to combating Pneumonia in PH, says Vaccine Expert

A vaccine expert reinforced high vaccine coverage and the suitability of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) as crucial strategies to reducing overall pneumococcal disease...

Warriors’ Wiggins wishes COVID vaccine wasn’t part of title NBA season

Golden State forward Andrew Wiggins may cherish the NBA title and All-Star nod that came with the best season of his career, but he...

UN sounds ‘red alert’ on global immunization backslide

Increased misinformation and the disruption of global supply chains due to Covid are behind the biggest sustained drop in childhood vaccinations in three decades,...

Top award

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II awards the prestigious George Cross to Filipina nurse May Parsons, who administered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot in December...

DOH: Booster not mandatory, but there’s need to ramp it up

The administration of COVID-19 booster shots, as well as the primary vaccine series, are still not mandatory in the country, the Department of Health...

COVID vax for kids below 5 yrs. eyed

The Philippines is looking into the possibility of vaccinating children below 5 years old against COVID-19, an official of the National Vaccination Operations Center...

Monkeypox vax maker ready for orders

As the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, Danish company Bavarian Nordic has seen its order book fill up as the usually...
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