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Five modular hospital units were launched by the national government at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City on Wednesday, Aug. 11, to accommodate more patients that were afflicted of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (third from right) leads
endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 24) — Over 5.5 million Filipinos are now protected against COVID-19, the pandemic task force said Saturday, as the country's coronavirus shots near 500,000 per day. "We are now past the crawl-and-walk stages, as we gradually run towards our goal of inoculating half a million Filipinos per day this quarter," National Task Force against COVID 19 Chief Implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito G. Galvez Jr. was quoted as saying in a statement. Galvez said the government was able to administer 472,356 doses across the country last Thursday —...
Published July 19, 2021, 11:10 AM The San Juan City local government inaugurated on Monday, July 19, its third vaccination site to further boost its vaccination capabilities, especially amid the threat of the COVID-19 Delta variant. San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora led the launch together with other city government officials. The city’s newest vaccination site is located at the third floor events place of VMall in Greenhills. (Photo from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook) The site can accommodate 1,000 vaccinees a day and will increase the city’s daily vaccination rate to 5,000 jabs, inclu...
Published July 18, 2021, 10:47 AM BATANGAS CITY– Around 2,000 individuals received their first jab in a special mass vaccination program of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 at the provincial Dream Zone Center in Batangas City for Taal Volcano eruption responders, evacuees and priority groups from different local government units (LGUs), the whole of Friday, July 16. Emergency responders from different units of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Batangas Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Philippine Air Force (PAF) and Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Offices (DRRMOs) w...
SunStar (From Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas) + June 18, 2021 PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte lauded the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (Opav) for the creation of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Manual for Covid-19 Response at the city and municipal level. In a message, he congratulated OPAV for publishing the manual that is “designed to help the local implementers of our COVID-19 response in the Visayas, (and) will truly standardize our procedures in combatting this disease.” EOC was established in Cebu when the surge of cases occu...