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COVID-19 VACCINATION. Lilia Butao, 65 received her 1st Pfizer booster shot during the Covid-19 mass vaccination at the MetroPlaza Mall in Barangay 176, Bagong Silang-Kanan, Caloocan City on Thursday (June 23, 2022). Butao is one of the 100 recipients of Pfizer booster in the area. (PNA photo by Ben Briones) MANILA - The Philippines has already administered 154,237,449 doses of the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine nationwide, with 70,853,659 Filipinos receiving complete coronavirus primary series and 15,017,716 getting their first booster doses, National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) said Saturday. The latest report from the NVOC also showed that 801 individuals aged 12 to 17 with underlying co-morbidities have been given their first booster doses. "As provided for in [Department of Health] DM No. 2022-0263, the roll-out of the first booster/third dose for all adolescents ages 12 to 17 may proceed as soon as the Local Vaccination Operations Centers (LVOCs), implementing unit
Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas chief pathologist and Visayas Vaccination Operations Office spokesperson Dr. Mary Jean Loreche. (File photo) CEBU CITY - The Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) is confident that Lapu-Lapu City will be added to the two localities in Central Visayas placed under coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Alert Level 1, a spokesperson said on Friday. Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas chief pathologist, Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, said Lapu-Lapu City was able to reconcile its vaccination data, pulling out names from other categories and transferred them to the A2 category for the national vaccine rollout. "Lapu-Lapu City was able to present its compliance to the fourth requirement before a locality can be allowed to transition to Alert Level 1, that is to inoculate 70 percent of the total population of elderlies," Loreche, also a VVOC spokesperson, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) in an interview. The city pulled out data of
VAX TO THE MAX. Adults and teenagers queue up for Covid-19 vaccination at the multipurpose area of Barangay Kaligayahan in Novaliches, Quezon City on the last day of the "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" vaccination drive on Wednesday (Dec. 1, 2021). The government targets to administer 9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses during the three-day vaccination drive that began on November 29. (PNA photo by Oliver Marquez) MANILA - The country's national massive inoculation drive dubbed "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" will continue for two more days, the National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 announced Thursday. In an advisory, the NTF said various local government units (LGUs) have requested the National Vaccine Operations Center (NVOC) to extend the three-day Covid-19 vaccination drive as a "large" number of individuals are still flocking at the vaccination sites to get coronavirus vaccine. With this, the NTF allowed the LGUs to voluntarily extend their respective "Bayan
UP IN SMOKE. Fire hits the Provincial Health Office of Zamboanga del Sur in Pagadian City on Sunday night (Oct. 31, 2021). The National Task Force Against Covid-19 and other concerned agencies said they will replace the 148,678 doses of Covid-19 vaccines destroyed. (Photo courtesy of Victory Zamboanga del Sur) MANILA - The government will replenish the 148,678 doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines that were destroyed in a fire that hit the Provincial Health Office of Zamboanga del Sur on Sunday night. In a joint statement issued Monday, the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19, National Vaccination Operations Centers (NVOC), and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said they are closely monitoring the investigation. "We are saddened that 148,678 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were damaged during the fire that broke out at the Provincial Health Office of Zamboanga del Sur on