The country is set to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility within the first quarter of this year, government officials said on Wednesday night.
This was announced by Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III and Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr. in a joint statement.
Published January 20, 2021, 6:10 PM
Top officials of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) checked three cold storage warehouses that are being considered by the national government in storing millions of vaccine doses that will arrive beginning February.
NTF chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. and IATF head, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, led the inspection of the Zuellig Pharma warehouse in Parañaque City; Unilab Pharma Campus warehouse in Binan City, Laguna; and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) warehouse in Muntinlupa City.
Galvez could not give the exact amount on how much it will cost the national government to pay for the usage of the pharmaceutical companies’ cold storage warehouses.
The inspection team’s first stop was Unilab’s Pharma Campus in Biñan City, Laguna.
LAGUNA, Jan. 20 The Philippines is ready for the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines following the inspection of several cold storage facilities by COVID-19 task force officials on Wednesday.
Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Chairperson and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, who led the inspection team, expressed confidence that the vaccines will be properly stored and handled as soon as they arrive.
“We are quite gratified with what we have seen in our inspection. So far, what we have seen suggests very strongly (that) there is adequacy of cold storage facilities across the three different temperature ranges, the +2 to +8, -20, and -70 to -80,” Duque said.
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By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published January 14, 2021 5:35pm The House of Representatives will conduct its own inquiry into the national government s COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday, January 18. The virtual hearing will be led by the House Committee on Health, headed by Quezon Representative Angelina Helen Tan, with invited resource persons involved in the vaccine procurement including Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. “There have been a lot of differing opinions, mostly from non-medical experts, regarding government-procured vaccines,” Tan said in a statement. “As such, we would like to hear from the experts themselves to determine facts and figures from a scientific point of view, she added.