(File photo) MANILA - The National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) will let the next administration decide on the fate of the country's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) inoculation program. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, who also chairs the NVOC, said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19, and the vaccination cluster will endorse all the programs to the next administration. "We will leave it up to them. But the IATF, as the overall head of the NTF and even our vaccine cluster, is prepared to hand over the documents and to brief. We just await kung ano iyong directions ng susunod na (what will be the directions of the next) administration," Cabotaje said during a televised public briefing. "Of course, we will also defer to whoever is the new Secretary. Alam naman natin (We also know) that the IATF is lodged with the Department of Health (DOH) and then the measure
(File photo) MANILA - The National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) will let the next administration decide on the fate of the country's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) inoculation program. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, who also chairs the NVOC, said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19, and the vaccination cluster will endorse all the programs to the next administration. "We will leave it up to them. But the IATF, as the overall head of the NTF and even our vaccine cluster, is prepared to hand over the documents and to brief. We just await kung ano iyong directions ng susunod na (what will be the directions of the next) administration," Cabotaje said during a televised public briefing. "Of course, we will also defer to whoever is the new Secretary. Alam naman natin (We also know) that the IATF is lodged with the Department of Health (DOH) and then the measure
“With more than 80% of our country’s target population now fully vaccinated, we are confident that we can achieve our goal of vaccinating 90 million Filipinos by the end of the second quarter, and administer at least 72.16 million booster shots by the end of the year,” National Task Force (NTF) chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said.
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