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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 14) - The Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City is one of the first private hospitals to get a hand on COVID-19 vaccines under the World Health Organization’s COVAX facility.
“I was told by the LGU (local government unit) that they are getting the vaccine for us,” said CSMC chief medical officer Dr. Zenaida Javier-Uy in an interview with CNN Philippines.
San Juan City mayor Francis Zamora also confirmed that the private hospital will get Pfizer vaccines.
“Ang national government ay maglalaan sa San Juan pati sa Metro Manila LGUs (local government units) ng Pfizer,” he said. “Ang unang batch na darating na Pfizer na darating sa San Juan, ito po ay para sa kategoryang ito, for the healthcare workers, for medical frontliners wherein kasama po ang Cardinal Santos diyan.”
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File photo February 13, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) Central Visayas, on Saturday, February 13, 2021, said 60 of the 70 samples it sent to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) for genomic sequencing on February 6 tested negative for the more infectious UK B.1.1.7 variant.
1. Remaining 10 samples not tested yet
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH-Central Visayas spokesperson, said the 10 remaining samples have not yet been tested due to some technicalities.
“It is still possible that we have the UK variant, but is not yet confirmed as the samples collected although these are from the targeted population as I have already stated before, that there is the possibility that we didn’t gather the sample from one infected with the UK variant,” she said.
National Task Force (NTF) Chief Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon on Thursday, Feb. 11, said there will be a slight delay on the arrival of the first 117,000 Pfizer vaccines in the country.
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