DONATED JABS. Qatar Airlines Flight QR928 delivers 1,526,400 doses of the single-shot Janssen Covid-19 vaccine on Monday night (Dec. 13, 2021). The shipment is part of more than 7.5 million jabs donated by the Dutch government through the COVAX Facility. (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The country has sufficient coronavirus vaccines, with more than 24 million doses this week that will add to the 64 million doses in the stockpile. This week's deliveries will ensure the country has enough supplies until mid-2022, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19, chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said during his report to President Rodrigo Duterte's Talk to the People on Monday night. "Unprecedented po 'yun dahil kasi normally, seven million ang ating average po per week. Ngayon po 24 million po (This is unprecedented because we normally receive seven million doses on the average per week. Now, it's 24 million), Mr. President," Galvez said. Galvez al
MANILA- The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Friday announced that 75.39 percent or 236,714 of the total active tourism workers in the country are now vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). "We will not stop until we achieve 100 percent vaccination for all our active tourism workers," Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat said as she expressed her satisfaction with the latest figures. "The DOT welcomes the higher vaccination rate among the various regions in the country -with key destination areas attaining 100 percent coverage already. We thank the National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF), most especially to Chief Implementer and Vaccine Czar, Secretary Carlito G. Galvez Jr. and Deputy Chief Implementer Secretary Vince Dizon, the Department of Health (DOH), and our private stakeholders and local government units (LGUs) for the ceaseless support in protecting our tourism workforce - the backbone of our industry, " she said. The DOT's vaccinat
Over 75 percent or more than 236,000 active tourism across the country are now vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced.
A tourism worker receives his first COVID-19 jab during the mass vaccination for tourism frontliners and workers in El Nido,