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Arrival of Pfizer doses in PH seen to boost vaccine confidence – WHO enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 11) — The World Health Organization believes the much-awaited arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the Philippines may help boost Filipinos confidence in vaccines. WHO Country Representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe on Monday said people who have apprehensions about getting a COVID-19 shots will be more open to getting a shot using the Pfizer vaccin...

Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) PhilHealth Vice President for Corporate Affairs Dr. Shirley Domingo said that the guidelines of indemnification fund for vaccine recipients who suffered serious side effects have been approved. “Yung inaayos lang po natin ay yung funding po nito kasi under the law we were supposedly provided with P500 million in trust specifically for this purpose (What we are just fixing is its funding because under the law we were supposedly provided with...

(FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 7) — The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation is targeting to release this month the indemnification package for vaccine recipients who suffer serious side effects or even die after a COVID-19 vaccination, PhilHealth Vice President for Corp. Affairs Shirley Domingo said Friday. "Approved na po ito. May guidelines ito. Iyong inaayos lang po natin ay iyong funding po nito...Siguro within a month or lesser mare-release na natin. Basta within t...

Published May 4, 2021, 2:01 PM There is “no other solution” to the COVID-19 pandemic but the vaccines, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Secretary Joey Concepcion said on Tuesday, May 4, adding that the business community might be pushed to support Congress on making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory in the country. Concepcion, Go Negosyo founder and one of President Duterte’s trusted advisers, stressed the importance of achieving herd immunity, or the vaccination of at least 70 to 8...

May 4, 2021 Joey Concepcion III, President Rodrigo Duterte’s adviser for entrepreneurship, said Tuesday that he would support the proposed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination if needed. Concepcion vowed to support the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination so the Philippines could attain herd immunity. “We will support it kasi if we don’t reach herd immunity, masisira ‘yung bansa natin. Hindi lang tataas ‘yung infection ang mangyayari dito, mawawala ang maraming negosyo magsasarado,” he said. �...

SunStar + May 03, 2021 Vaccination against the coronavirus resumed in the city on Monday, May 3, after a one-week pause when we ran out of vaccines. It is going to be a recurring problem; the national government’s procurement has come in trickles and, as lawyers are wont to say, quoting a landmark Supreme Court decision, the spring cannot rise higher than its source. We reportedly received 5,000 additional doses late last week. Earlier, we were told that at least 28,000 senior ci...

That was hardly surprising, since India is in the midst of a major outbreak, with up to 350,000 cases reported daily. India might also be the source of a new coronavirus variant. Over the same period, flights arrived in ­Vancouver from Amsterdam, Dallas, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Seattle, all with infected travellers aboard. And numerous flights arrived from cities elsewhere in Canada. Bowing to pressure from the provinces, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ordered a month-long ban...

That was hardly surprising, since India is in the midst of a major outbreak, with up to 350,000 cases reported daily. India might also be the source of a new coronavirus variant. Over the same period, flights arrived in ­Vancouver from Amsterdam, Dallas, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Seattle, all with infected travellers aboard. And numerous flights arrived from cities elsewhere in Canada. Bowing to pressure from the provinces, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ordered a month-long ban...

Published April 26, 2021, 5:39 PM Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga, Jr. has filed a bill seeking to amend the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021 and make the government’s inoculation program against the coronavirus disease mandatory for individuals as “may be determined” by the Department of Health (DOH). **media[3043]** In filing House Bill No. 9252, Barzaga said a mass COVID-19 vaccination program can only be successfully achieved by “enacting a legislation to mandate and p...

COVID-19 update for April 24-25: Four more deaths | Mayor seeks possible injunction after Kits restaurant holds rally | New travel restrictions Heres your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. Author of the article: Scott Brown, Tiffany Crawford, Cheryl Chan, David Carrigg Publishing date: Apr 24, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  6 minute read  •  The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), fi...