The local government of Baguio City is targeting to vaccinate more than 60,000 individuals in the three-day national vaccinated drive “Bayanihan Bakunahan.”
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has suspended a plan to reopen the country to foreign travelers amid the threat of the new COVID-19 Omicron variant.
Countries, jurisdictions, and territories are only included in the Philippines’ “red list” after they have announced local transmission for new COVID-19 variants, Malacañang said on Monday.
The national government’s COVID-19 task force is still finalizing the parameters to possibly deescalate Metro Manila to the lowest Alert Level 1, Malacañang said on Monday.
The Philippines began on Monday (Nov. 29) its massive three-day national vaccination drive dubbed as “Bayanihan Bakunahan” to inoculate nine million more individuals.
In his speech at the vaccination venue in Antipolo...
A health official on Monday (Nov. 29) said there is still no evidence showing that the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron is more likely to infect the younger population or cause severe symptoms.
