and five AFP sites.
The Philippines rolled out the vaccination program on March 1 with the 600,000 CoronaVac doses donated by the Chinese government. Of the 600,000 doses, 189,600 have already been delivered, including 12,000 sent to Davao City and 7,200 to Cebu City.
“Vaccination activities in those cities are expected to commence today,” Nograles said.
According to the Palace official, the government already has the data of the “master-listed population” in the country’s 17 regions.
‘As of yesterday, the master-listed population stands at 222,783 and the vaccines shall be administered to them in 243 vaccination sites in all 17 regions of the country– 94 sites across Luzon, 18 in the Visayas, and 131 in Mindanao,” Nograles said.
National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar Vince Dizon on Sunday, Feb. 28, warned the public against fake coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests being sold online.
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Bureau of Customs (BOC) Deputy Commissioner Vincent Philip Maronilla answered this question in a DZBB radio interview Sunday morning, Feb.28.
According to Maronilla, customs agents will first get an opportunity to count the number of vaccines received by the country from importers during then handling of the jabs at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City.
“Pagdating po ng RITM nandun po mga customs officers namin para lang po tignan yung paglipat niya sa doon cold storage facility. Makikita na namin kung ilang boxes or ilang pieces per box yung laman para ma-confirm namin sa papeles na binigay sa amin (Our customs officers will be at the RITM to watch the transfer of the vaccines to the cold storage facility. We will see the number of boxes and how many pieces there are per box and from there we can confirm the figure on the papers given to us),” he said.
SunStar Editorial: Giving voice to people living with HIV
FIGHT FEAR. Empowering people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) to connect with families and communities is one step closer to taking down the discrimination and biases that prevent vulnerable populations from seeking testing and treatment to stay healthy and prevent spreading the virus to partners.(SunStar file)
+ February 28, 2021 A JOURNALIST trained to write about other people has a lifetime of professional reticence keeping him or her from tackling a personal essay, specially one that demands searing self-examination and segues into unanticipated, uncomfortable truths.
A pioneering digital journalist in Cebu and former Manila online bureau chief at SunStar Philippines, Gem A. Cabreros ended 11 years of silence when he posted on his personal blog and reposted on Facebook the essay, “I’m HIV-Positive and This is My Story”.