BusinessWorld
April 30, 2021 | 7:58 pm
Anti-parasitic not a substitute for vaccines says ivermectin advocate
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Jose Ma. âJoeyâ Concepcion III said that the private sector would prioritize donating 500,000 AstraZeneca doses to the government if deliveries from the COVAX global facility to the Philippine government are delayed.
The Philippines has already received more than 500,000 AstraZeneca doses from the facility, which were used to inoculate medical frontliners. The second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be given four to 12 weeks after the first.
Mr. Concepcion leads the Dose of Hope initiative which helped procure AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through tripartite agreements with the private sector and local governments. Of the doses bought by businesses, half are to go to their employees first and the second half will be donated to the government.
BusinessWorld
April 16, 2021 | 7:20 pm
A health worker prepares a bed inside a temporary medical tent at the
Go Belmonte Super Health Center and Lying-in Clinic on April 14, intended for patients who are about to give birth but awaiting either the result or swabbing for a coronavirus test.
PHILSTAR/MICHAEL VARCAS
The Department of Health (DoH) on Friday said the case fatality rate in Metro Manila is almost 1.5% during the past two weeks, lower than the 5.36% reported by the OCTA Research Team on Wednesday.
Health Undersecretary Rosario S. Vergeire, in a virtual briefing, said, “As of April 15, our case fatality rate in NCR (National Capital Region) is 1.46%. We compute the case fatality rate based on the number of deaths from this specific disease, which is the COVID-19, over the number of confirmed cases.”