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MANILA — PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday assured the public that government is ready for the expected onslaught of Super Typhoon "Mawar" (international name).
WASHINGTON—Defense Department officer in charge Carlito Galvez and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday established the bilateral defense guidelines between the two countries to modernize the alliance cooperation "for a free and open Indo-Pacific region." According to a fact sheet from the US Department of Defense, the guidelines "reaffirmed that an armed attack in the Pacific, including anywhere in the South China Sea, on either of their aircraft or armed forces – which includes their Coast Guards – would invoke mutual defense commitments under the 1951 PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty."
"The comments on the locations of the new military bases also speak to the concern shared by many insightful people in the Philippines, who worry that this may draw their country into the whirlpool of a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait," Mao said.
"Finally, nalagpasan natin ang pagsubok na dala ng Omicron," Galvez reported at President Rodrigo Duterte's Talk to the People program. "NCR and 38 areas will begin the roadmap to the new normal starting tomorrow exactly one year after we started the vaccination program," he added.
Novavax Inc has delivered just a small fraction of the 2 billion COVID-19 shots it plans to send around the world in 2022 and has delayed first-quarter shipments in Europe and lower income countries such as the Philippines, public officials involved in their government's vaccine rollouts told Reuters.
While the government continues to ramp up its vaccination drive against COVID-19, National Task Force against COVID-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Saturday enumerated several external factors that have resulted in the slowing down of its vaccination efforts.
VAX FOR KIDS. Nurse Sonia Saballa (left) administers the Covid-19 vaccine to Lizel Labador, 12, (center), while the child's stepmother stands behind her at the Bagong Silang Elementary School in Caloocan City on Tuesday (Jan. 11, 2021). Pfizer and Moderna brands have been approved for the 12 to 17 age group. (PNA photo by Ben Briones) MANILA - The government is coordinating with other drug manufacturers to expand the emergency use authorization (EUA) of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines for pediatric vaccination. National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer, Secretary, Carlito Galvez Jr., said they are eyeing the use of other brands of coronavirus jabs for the younger population. "Kami po ay nakipag-ugnayan na po sa ibang mga brand para po magkaroon po tayo ng EUA dito po sa ages 3 to 11 (We are coordinating with other brand manufacturers so that we can have EUA for ages 3 to 11 years old)," Galvez reported to President Rodrigo Duterte during the prerecorded Talk to the People aired on state-run People's Television Network late Monday night. The Food and Drug Administration has already approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for the 12 to 17 age bracket. Galvez said the government targets to start the administration of primary doses to some 12.5 million minors aged 5 to 11 years old within the second quarter this year. The lower dosages of the Pfizer vaccine for the age bracket "might be available by the end of January," according to Galvez. About 11.11 million aged zero to four years old may also be inoculated by April while some 10.2 million children in the 12 to 17 age group should have already received booster doses by June. (PNA) }
National Task Force Against COVID-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. on Monday expressed his support for the reimposition of the mandatory face shield policy amid the threat of the Omicron variant.
In a press conference after the arrival, Galvez said most of the vaccines will be deployed to Metro Manila and other "highly-urbanized areas." "Most of these vaccines will be given to Region 4A and Region 3 and also partly in Region 1 and also areas of Visayas and Iloilo," said Galvez, partly in Filipino.