Published February 2, 2021, 8:00 AM
Unilab, Inc. (Unilab), the leading health care company in the country, and Faberco Life Sciences, Inc. (Faberco) signed an agreement to make Covovax™ vaccine developed by Novavax and manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) available to workers and employees of the private sector.
Under the agreement, Faberco, which is the distributor of Covovax™ vaccines in the Philippines, appointed Unilab as its authorized partner for the private sector.
“Unilab and Faberco share the same vision and advocacy in terms of providing access to as many Filipinos at the soonest possible time. We are prepared to help the Philippine government in protecting the people by enabling more access to Covid-19 vaccines through the private sector,” says Kishore Hemlani, founder of Faberco.
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Published January 14, 2021, 4:51 PM
The Philippine government, through the business sector and the Local Government Units (LGUs), has secured 17 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, but the delivery would likely be in the second semester of this year.
In this file photo taken on November 17, 2020 An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
(Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Carlito Galvez, vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force on COVID-19, said the 17 million doses of the AstraZeneca that were sealed by the government, through the donations of more than 300 companies and allocation of LGUs, would inoculate more or less 8.5 million Filipinos since each individual needs two doses for the vaccination.
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SPOKANE, Wash. While many are feeling more hopeful with news of the first shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine being sent out, people are also asking about the vaccination process.
One such question involves whether someone can get one dose of the Pfizer vaccine and a second dose of the Moderna vaccine. If [the] first shot is Pfizer, can the second be Moderna? Or, must both shots be Pfizer in order for efficacy of the vaccine process, KREM viewer Laura asked.