DAVAO CITY A total of 121,200 doses of Sinovac CoronaVac and 143,800 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines arrived at the Davao International Airport Thursday morning, Nov. 4. In a statement, the Department of Health Davao Region said the vaccines arrived via Cebu Pacific flight DG5813 at 08:12 am
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Published July 14, 2021, 10:32 AM
DAVAO CITY – The city government of Davao will still require inbound flight passengers to show an RT-PCR negative test requirement even as local government units were given by the prerogative by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) to utilize the vaccination card as an alternative to travel testing requirements.
The city has been implementing City Ordinance No. 0477-21, known as “An Ordinance Providing For Mandatory Testing Prior To Entry Into Davao City Via The Davao International Airport.”
On July 2, the IATF issued Resolution No. 124-B, which provides that presentation of a COVID-19 domestic vaccination card duly issued by a legitimate vaccinating establishment, or certificate of quarantine completion showing the holder’s vaccination “shall be sufficient alternatives to any testing requirement (before travel or upon arrival) which the local government unit of destination may requir
Published June 30, 2021, 12:19 PM
DAVAO CITY – A new COVID-19 testing laboratory was recently given license to operate by the Department of Health (DOH) and is expected to boost the turnaround time for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing results.
The city government on Monday said the Los Amigos Davao Laboratory located at Purok 6, B5, Los Amigos, in Tugbok District received its license to operate last June 22 and is valid to operate until December 31, 2021.
Davao City COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Dr. Michelle Schlosser said the new laboratory can help address the backlog as the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) Molecular Laboratory has exceeded its limit of accepting RT-PCR swab samples.