The local government unit (LGU) of Mandaluyong City on Tuesday announced that it has given a 20 percent down payment to biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca for 150,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque converses with a vaccine frontliner manning the Mabini Elem. School Vaccination Site in Davao City. The CODE Team conducted a walk thru at the school during the vaccination simulation held on Feb. 16.
DAVAO CITY, Feb. 17 (PIA) - Members of the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) or CODE Team commended the vaccination and deployment plan presented by the local government of Davao City during their visit on Feb. 16.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte welcomed the CODE Team led by National Task Force Against COVID19 Chief Implementer and Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr, Health Secretary and IATF Chair Secretary Francisco Duque III, Cabinet Secretary of the Philippines Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles, Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque Jr.
Published February 19, 2021, 3:33 PM
Top officials of the National Task Force (NTF) Against Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) are planning to go to India to discuss the possible early delivery of Novavax vaccines to the Philippines, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday, Feb. 19.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19
(NTF AGAINST COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN)
This, as Galvez said that the separate deal the government has with the Covax facility–led by the World Health Organization (WHO)–for the delivery of the American-made Pfizer-BioNTech and British, Swedish-made AstraZeneca vaccines is still being negotiated.
“We are trying our best, maybe one of these days we might go to India where more or less two to three billion doses will be produced by the Serum Institute of India. It is where we bought a big bulk of Novavax vaccines,” Galvez said during a visit of the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemi
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Published February 19, 2021, 2:26 PM
Filipinos should accept whatever brand of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine that the government will provide in light of the supply shortage felt around the world, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday, Feb. 19.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19 (NTF AGAINST COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
This, as Galvez recalled Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s controversial remark last month that the public can’t afford to be “choosy” when it comes to the vaccine.
“Tama si Secretary Roque na dapat kahit ano ang unang vaccine na darating sa atin, kunin na natin (Secretary Roque is right all along that whatever vaccine that comes first, we should grab it),” he said during the visit of the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) Team in the municipality of Pateros.