Various issues delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to PH cnnphilippines.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnnphilippines.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Five million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine will be available to be administered in the next few weeks.
The Ministry of Health says Vietnam is slated to receive the doses by the end of February as the country battles a new wave of community outbreaks.
Speaking at the Government meeting on Covid-19 prevention and control on Monday (Feb 15), Trương Quốc Cường, Deputy Minister of Health said the ministry has ‘basically completed’ procedures needed to receive 4.8 million doses via the World Health Organisation-led initiative Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, aimed to ensure equity in the distribution of the vaccines, in addition to commercial import of another 117,000 doses, without providing specifics on the manufacturers.
Gov t yet to sign COVID-19 vaccine deals, senators told mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 17) The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth already has enough funds to compensate Filipinos who may experience serious side effects after being vaccinated against COVID-19, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
During a Senate hearing on the proposed COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto strongly opposed the provision giving PhilHealth an additional P500 million for the indemnification fund. The state health insurer s financial statements show it has a reserve fund of ₱116 billion as of September 2020 and a net income of ₱5.3 billion that year, Recto said. Judicious use of resources. Why should we give them an additional ₱500 million? That s the purpose of the reserve fund to begin with, for problems of this nature, Recto said. There s no need to give them 500 million.
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By Jose de Jesus Cortes
Cuicatlan, Mexico, Feb 17 (efe-epa).- Mostly hopeful but also dealing with a certain degree of anxiety, senior citizens in this small town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are being administered their first doses of a long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine.
Accompanied by his daughter and clutching a wooden cane, Eustaquio Aguilar Sanchez made his way to the hospital in Cuicatlan to obtain the vaccine developed by British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
Following the injection, he lay down for 30 minutes in a makeshift observation space at an esplanade opposite the hospital while being monitored for a potential adverse reaction.