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Government accelerating vaccine rollout, says Bong Go as he assures equitable distribution across the country
As the country prepares for the anticipated arrival of several batches of vaccines in the coming days, Senator Christopher Bong Go said the government is exerting all efforts to ramp up and accelerate the national vaccination program while simultaneously ensuring the safety and efficacy of the procured vaccines. This is just the start. We need to do more. We need to accelerate the vaccination program in a safe, sure and secure manner, Go began in an interview on Saturday, February 27. Ang gusto ng mahal na Pangulo ay ilalagay [ang mga bakuna] sa strategic places. Of course, sa Visayas, sa mga naka-ready na pasilidad doon sa hospital sa Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (sa Cebu City). Sa Davao City, sa Southern Philippines Medical Center dahil nakapaghanda na rin sila doon. Ang gusto ni Pangulo distributed [ang mga bakuna] all over the country, he
SunStar Sinovac vaccines to arrive in Cebu, Davao on March 2
MANILA. Boxes of Sinovac vaccine are weighed at PAL s international cargo terminal in Pasay City upon arrival at 6 p.m. Monday, March 1, 2021. (From Cielo Villaluna’s Facebook)
+ March 02, 2021 FLAG carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will transport Sinovac vaccines to Cebu City and Davao City on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
In a social media post, PAL spokesperson Cielo Villaluna said there will be 7,200 doses (placed in 12 boxes) for Cebu City and 12,000 doses (placed in 20 boxes) for Davao City.
She said the vaccines arrived at PAL s international cargo terminal in Pasay City at 6 p.m. Monday, March 1, from the cold storage facility in Marikina City.
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+ March 01, 2021 A TOTAL of 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine donated by the Chinese government arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.
Although the Philippines is the last member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to receive the vaccine, the Sinovac shipment arrived just four days after the first batch of vaccines reached our neighbors Vietnam and Thailand.
Mind you, if Malacañang had agreed to allow clinical trials to be conducted here like Lao PDR and Indonesia did, we would have received vaccines in November and December, respectively. But it didn’t. And there’s no point in dwelling on what could have been.
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March 02, 2021 LESS than 24 hours after the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Philippines, some government officials and medical frontliners had themselves inoculated Monday, March 1, 2021, to kick off the vaccination program and raise confidence in the vaccine.
Health workers at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City will be the first to get vaccine jabs in Central Visayas on Thursday, March 4, Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Assistant Secretary Anthony Gerard “Jonji” Gonzalez said in an online press conference Monday.
More than 50 percent of the VSMMC workers agreed to have themselves inoculated, said Dr. Junjie Zuasola of the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of the Department of Health (DOH) 7.