Published March 2, 2021, 1:11 PM
An estimated two-thirds of private companies in the Philippines have already taken steps to provide their employees access to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, a joint survey by Willis Towers Watson and People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) bared Tuesday, March 2. (Arnold Almacen / CMO / FILE PHOTO)
Based on the survey results, 65 percent of the 250 human resources (HR) practitioners who served as respondents said their companies have already arranged, or are in the process of arranging, the purchase of vaccines in their employees’ behalf.
Among the employers that haven’t started the process, 58 percent are considering doing so while 42 percent of companies have no plans of purchasing the vaccines.
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) — The vaccination of 300,000 Filipinos, particularly healthworkers, against COVID-19 begins today.Healthcare workers and other medical frontliners working in major referral hospitals in the country will be prioritized in the inoculation program, following the...
Secretary Vince Dizon throws a victory sign after being vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech pharmaceutical. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) -- The country's COVID-19 Testing Czar and National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday personally joined the chief and around 200 initial medical frontline workers of the Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium in Tala, Caloocan City in getting the first shots of the coronavirus vaccine.
Posing with a victory sign after receiving the vaccine, Dizon had sat down with Dr. Alfonso Victorino Famaran, Jr., Medical Center Chief II, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this morning, along with 180 health workers, who all hailed and expressed confidence in the donated CoronaVac vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech.
Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III delivers the first COVID-19 vaccine jab at Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) -- The success of the Philippines' first vaccination rollout depends primarily on the support of healthcare workers and other medical frontliners working in major referral hospitals, and the public as well, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said today.
Duque, who joined other national and local government officials in the historic ceremonial inoculation program at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City on Monday, said the deployment of quality-assured, safe and effective CoronaVax vaccines to thousands of frontline workers across the country, could only be realized if the public will take part in this massive immunization program.
MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos
“OK naman po siya (He is doing OK),” MMDA Public Affairs Staff chief, Director II Sharon Gentalian told this reporter when asked Monday afternoon, March 1, how Abalos was doing.
Gentalian said in particular that Abalos didn’t experience dizziness a few hours after he was inoculated with the Sinovac Biotech-manufactured, anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) drug.
The MMDA chairman was among the first Palace-appointed officials to be administered with CoronaVac during a “mini-rollout” of the vaccines at Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Monday morning.
Abalos’s case as a vaccinee is different from most in that he had already contracted the dreaded COVID-19 back in July 2020. He recovered from his sickness.
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