The Department of Health (DoH) said that having churches as alternative vaccination sites can help reach more people, especially those in far-flung areas.
CODE Team lauds Quezon City s comprehensive vaccine plan philippinetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from philippinetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SunStar
+ January 30, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) targets to immunize nearly 10 million children in phase 2 of the measles-rubella (MR) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) drive next month.
In a virtual press briefing, DOH national immunization program manager Maria Wilda Silva said they target to vaccinate 5.1 million children from 9 to 59 months old children for the MR vaccine and 4.8 million children from 0 to 59 months old for OPV. We mentioned in the past that 2021 is very critical because of the accumulation of susceptibles (sic). It is very possible, it is highly possible that we can experience a very big outbreak if we do not do something to increase the immunity, said Silva.
US gives P24M for Philippine vaccine drive against measles, rubella, polio By MA. ANGELICA GARCIA, GMA News
Published January 29, 2021 2:40pm The United States has donated over P24 million for the Philippine immunization effort against measles, rubella, and polio. In a statement on Friday, the US Embassy said the US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), partnered with the Philippine government and other development partners to launch the second phase of the Measles-Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity. The MR OPV SIA Phase 2, a follow-up to the Philippine government’s Phase 1 immunization campaign last year, will include the entire Visayas, Metro Manila, Central Luzon, and CALABARZON regions.
Let s respect that, ang kanyang decision na halintulad sa monarchy ng England, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III says, defending President Rodrigo Duterte s refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in public.