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In a virtual press briefing, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire explained the process once the vaccines arrived here.
“From the airport, it will undergo clearance from the Bureau of Customs (BOC), it will be very fast and then we will be loading the vaccines,” she said.
“We have transport vehicles that were already assigned,” she added.
Vergeire said based on the plan, the transportation of the vaccines from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay City to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) warehouse in Muntinlupa City will be 20 minutes.
Once at RITM, she said, the vaccines will be inspected
Three years after the launching of the first Malasakit Center in the Philippines, the one-stop service of government services focused on healthcare and medical financial assistance has reached another milestone.
The 100th Malasakit Center opened its doors at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City on Feb. 2.
This is the 54th Malasakit Center in Luzon.
There are 22 centers in the Visayas and 24 in Mindanao.
Sen. Christopher Lawrence Bong Go, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Sec. Michael Lloyd Dino, and the officials of the hospital and the local government unit attended the launching.
Over the past three years, Malasakit Center has served more than two million Filipinos nationwide, majority of those experienced a zero-balance billing in their hospital bills.
Funding issues are slowing the country's procurement of additional laboratory supplies and reagents needed to detect new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones
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Asked about her plans to avail of the COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available in the country, she told the Manila Bulletin that she will “abide by the decision” of Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter Agency Task Force on Emerging and Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) as well as “in consultation with my doctors.”
Briones, 80, currently leads the Department of Education (DepEd) after she was appointed by President Duterte in 2016. Despite her age, she is very active in visiting various schools in the country before the pandemic.
Even at the onset of the pandemic, Briones continued to lead DepEd in the shift into distance learning under the Basic Education -Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP). attended regular meetings, albeit virtually, to ensure that the opening of the school year (SY) 2020-2021 will push through despite the challenges.
Published February 3, 2021 5:27pm By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News An individual may test positive at the same time for two variants of COVID-19 at the same time, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. In a news briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire referred to the variants of coronavirus from the United Kingdom and South Africa. “Noong nag-uusap po ang ating task force on COVID-19 variants, ang ating mga eksperto ay nagsabi na rin na meron talagang probability, or merong posibilidad na magkaroon ng dalawang klaseng variants ang isang tao, Vergeire said. However, she said that no person in the country had been detected to have two variants of the coronavirus.