Manny Pacquiao, or simply “Pacman” to his legion of followers, has come a long way from being an impoverished young boy in General Santos City. The same boy who stepped inside the boxing ring not knowing much about the sport but was determined to win the P50 prize money so he could buy rice for his
SunStar Special Report: Government prepares for vaccine rollout
MANILA. A health worker pretends to inject a volunteer as they still wait for vaccination during a Covid-19 Vaccination Dry Run in Taguig, Philippines on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP)
+ February 02, 2021
(This is the third part of a special report by SunStar Philippines on efforts to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic through vaccination.)
NEARLY 24.7 million Filipinos, or about 23 percent of the population, will receive the free vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) first.
Among them are the frontline health workers, senior citizens, indigent population and the uniformed personnel, Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said.
SunStar Officials inspect cold storage facilities ahead of vaccine shipments
MANILA. Officials inspect the cold storage facility of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine on January 20, 2021. (DOH)
MANILA. Officials inspect the cold storage facility of the United Laboratories Inc. (Unilab) on January 20, 2021. (DOH)
+ January 20, 2021 (UPDATED) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, inspected cold storage facilities in preparation for the arrival of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines.
Duque and Galvez first visited United Laboratories Inc. (Unilab) in Biñan, Laguna.
Unilab’s cold storage facility within the Unilab Pharma Campus can store around five million doses of vaccine at a temperature of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. It has been identified as one of the major storage hubs for Covid-19 vaccines.