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CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) — The vaccination of 300,000 Filipinos, particularly healthworkers, against COVID-19 begins today.Healthcare workers and other medical frontliners working in major referral hospitals in the country will be prioritized in the inoculation program, following the.
Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III delivers the first COVID-19 vaccine jab at Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) The success of the Philippines first vaccination rollout depends primarily on the support of healthcare workers and other medical frontliners working in major referral hospitals, and the public as well, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said today.
Duque, who joined other national and local government officials in the historic ceremonial inoculation program at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City on Monday, said the deployment of quality-assured, safe and effective CoronaVax vaccines to thousands of frontline workers across the country, could only be realized if the public will take part in this massive immunization program.
Sinovac vaccines sent to some hospitals in Metro Manila
Published March 1, 2021 1:18am
Updated March 1, 2021 9:08am Some of the Sinovac vaccines received by the Philippines on Sunday have been delivered to various hospitals and medical centers in the metro, many of which will be holding symbolic first vaccinations on Monday morning. The first legal shipment of vaccines to arrive in the country 600,000 doses of Sinovac s CoronaVac vaccine landed at Villamor Airbase past 4 p.m. on a Chinese government plane. President Rodrigo Duterte and several members of his Cabinet, as well as Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian, were on hand to witness their offloading into trucks to bring them to a storage facility in Marikina.
Published March 1, 2021, 1:34 PM
Dozens of personnel from the Department of National Defense (DND) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were inoculated with a Chinese-made vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the rollout of the national vaccination program Monday, March 1, at two military hospitals in Quezon City.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana
(NTF Against COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN)
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana witnessed the vaccination of healthcare workers at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) where five hospital officials were initially administered with the vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. Aside from the VMMC, vaccination was also held at the V. Luna Medical Center in Quezon City.