The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, March 6, announced that the Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) has given clearance to the government for the acquisition of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines of Chinese firm, Sinovac Biotech.
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Photo by Amper Campaña March 07, 2021 A TOTAL of 1,075 health care workers from the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City have already been injected with CoronaVac, the vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) manufactured by Sinovac Biotech Ltd. of China, as of 11 a.m. Sunday, March 7, 2021.
In a post on its official Facebook page, the VSMMC said only 41 experienced mild adverse effects after vaccination and none suffered serious adverse effects.
The number of VSMMC employees who have consented to be vaccinated has already reached 2,062.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, Department of Health (DOH) 7 spokesperson, earlier said reactions after receiving the vaccine are normal as the body is given something “that it does not recognize as part of its own.”
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File March 06, 2021 THE Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) has posed no objection to the procurement of the Sinovac inactivated vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), saying its use has been deemed “beneficial”.
In a statement Saturday, March 6, 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) said HTAC released the results of its assessment of the Sinovac vaccine on March 3, 2021, a few days after the first batch of Sinovac vaccines arrived in the country.
DOH said the HTAC, which is an independent advisory body that provides guidance on the coverage of health interventions and technologies to be funded by the government, “deemed the use of CoronaVac (Sinovac) as being beneficial.”
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By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News
Published March 4, 2021 1:11pm More than 1,200 health workers of the Vicente Sotto Medical Center (VSMC) in Cebu City are set to get a Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine jab, its hospital chief said Thursday. VSMC medical chief Dr. Gerardo Aquino made the announcement on the same day that the hospital received 7,200 doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Chinese government. “May 1,246 na nag-consent, at tumataas pa rin ‘yan. The other day, it was only 700 of us,” Aquino said during the Laging Handa briefing. Aquino said that the COVID-19 vaccination of the hospital’s health workers will take six to seven days, and that there will be two hospitals on standby which can use the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines in the event VSMC won’t be able to use them all.