KIDS VACCINATION. Parents hold their crying 7-year-old son, Asher Jude Agbayani, while being inoculated with the reformulated Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine during the rollout of the jabs for children aged 5 to 11 years old at the Ugnayang La Salle Gymnasium in Dasmarinas City, Cavite on Tuesday (March 15, 2022). Some 381,433 kids under the 5-11 age bracket are now fully vaccinated. (PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - A total of 1,233,017 children aged 5 to 11 years old have been inoculated against Covid-19 since the Department of Health started the pediatric vaccination on February 7. In an online media forum, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said some 381,433 kids under the 5-11 age bracket are fully vaccinated. "Sa kabilang banda, 9.7 million na ang bakunadong 12 to 17 years old (Meantime, there are 9.7 million vaccinated 12-to-17-year-olds)," Vergeire said. She said government employees who will accompany their children to their vaccination schedule "may avail o
PEDIA VAX DRIVE.Pediatric vaccinees line up during the rollout of vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 years old at the Ugnayang La Salle gymnasium in Dasmarinas, Cavite on Tuesday (March 15, 2022). A total of 1,500 children belonging to the said age group were vaccinated during the activity.(PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA-The National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) on Tuesday said the fourth leg of the "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" National Vaccination Drive (NVD) will be extended until Friday (March 18). In a media interview, NVOC chairperson and Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje lauded various vaccination teams from the local government units (LGUs), Department of Health (DOH), other national government agencies, and uniformed personnel as well as the private sector and religious sector that have exerted massive inoculation efforts in the past days of the fourth national vaccination drive. According to Cabotaje, among the efforts to make coronavirus disease 2019 (Covi
KIDS VACCINATION. Parents hold their crying 7-year-old son, Asher Jude Agbayani, while being inoculated with the reformulated Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine during the rollout of the jabs for children aged 5 to 11 years old at the Ugnayang La Salle Gymnasium in Dasmarinas City, Cavite on Tuesday (March 15, 2022). Some 381,433 kids under the 5-11 age bracket are now fully vaccinated. (PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - A total of 1,233,017 children aged 5 to 11 years old have been inoculated against Covid-19 since the Department of Health started with its pediatric vaccination on February 7. In an online media forum, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said some 381,433 kids under the 5-11 age bracket are fully vaccinated. "Sa kabilang banda, 9.7 million na ang bakunadong 12 to 17 years old (Meantime, there are 9.7 million vaccinated 12-to-17-year-olds)," Vergeire said. She said government employees who will accompany their children to their vaccination schedule "may av