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House leader backs no vaccine brand notice, no forced jabs By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published May 20, 2021 6:24pm
House Committee on Health chairperson Angelina Helen Tan said people should be informed of the vaccine brand at the site. House Committee on Health chairperson Angelina Helen Tan on Thursday expressed support for the Department of Health s brand agnostic policy, provided that on the sites of vaccination, the public will be informed on the vaccine that will be administered to them. I am supporting the Department of Health’s brand agnostic policy wherein the local governments will not be made to announce the brand of COVID-19 doses that they will roll out in vaccination sites to avoid overcrowding, Tan, a physician, said in a press statement.
Absolute ban on travelers from UK urged amid new coronavirus variant By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published December 28, 2020 12:35pm A party-list lawmaker is calling for an absolute ban of travelers, including Filipinos, coming from the United Kingdom (UK) after a new coronavirus variant was detected there. Travel ban on flights from the UK should be absolute, covering all travelers, all airlines coming from the UK, with passengers originally coming from the UK, and including all Filipinos coming from the UK, said BHW party-list Representative Angelica Natasha Co in a statement over the weekend. The new coronavirus variant detected in the UK, SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01 (Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12, variant 01), was reported be 70% more transmissible than SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.