Published May 11, 2021, 12:17 PM
Parañaque City’s top official has backed the construction of a mega vaccination center at the Nayong Pilipino amid concerns on its environmental impact.
Mayor Edwin Olivarez said in an interview on DZRH that the mega vaccination facility is not permanent in nature and will only be built temporarily for the purpose of fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“May sinasabi sila doon na iyong puputulin na puno ng ipil-ipil eh malaki naman iyong lupa na iyon (They are concerned about the ipil-ipil trees that would be cut down for the project but the land area there is really wide),” he said.
Published May 10, 2021, 12:33 PM
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. has expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in the construction of a mega vaccination center at the Nayong Pilipino in Parañaque City, which he said, could have a major impact in the national government’s inoculation program.
Galvez, vaccine czar and chief implementer, said the construction of the mega vaccination center was approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious and Emerging Diseases (IATF-EID) through Resolution No. 109 dated April 10.
“Work on the facility should have commenced weeks ago, but so far, not a single brick or panel has been laid,” Galvez said in a statement Sunday, May 9.
2021-05-06 12:06:14 GMT2021-05-06 20:06:14(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 6 (Xinhua) Brunei reported no local COVID-19 infection cases on Thursday, marking one year without local COVID-19 transmission.
After the first COVID-19 case were reported on March 9, 2020, Brunei, with a population of about 450,000, has maintained strict border control and travel regulations to contain the spread of the virus from overseas travellers despite experiencing a sharp drop in international tourists.
The country has also imposed strict mass-gathering ban, carried out technology-based contact tracing and rigorous quarantine measures to keep locally-transmitted cases at bay.
The Brunei government kicked off the National Vaccination Program on April 3 this year, with 17,776 people having received COVID-19 vaccines by May 5.
Detecting Rare Blood Clots Was A Win, But US Vaccine Safety System Still Has Gaps
The quick detection of an ultra-rare blood clotting reaction in some covid-19 vaccine recipients showed the power of a federal warning system for vaccine safety issues, but experts worry that blind spots in the program could hamper detection of other unexpected side effects.
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Before the pandemic began, the Food and Drug Administration had scaled back a program it used successfully to track adverse events during and after the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and the agency is still ramping up its replacement, said Dr. Robert Chen, scientific director of the Brighton Collaboration, a nonprofit global vaccine safety network.
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