MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) is awaiting the complete recommendation of an advisory committee before COVID-19 booster shots are offered to the vulnerable population, a health official said Monday, Oct. 25.
The delivery of three million doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday night (Oct. 24) moved the country closer to its goal of 100 million doses by the end of the month.
MANILA – The country's total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases has reached 2,654,173 after 7,312 new recoveries were reported on Sunday (Oct. 24).
MANILA – As the world nears the Christmas season, a tradition in the Philippines is to prepare and hold gatherings. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all that.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has ramped up the vaccination of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) as 61.5% or a total of 75,970 of the 123,499 PDLs in jail facilities run by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) have already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccines, while 33% or 40,875 have received their second dose or are fully vaccinated.
All tourism workers and eligible residents of Boracay will be fully vaccinated in one month, and this means that as early as November, fully vaccinated individuals may visit the island without having to undergo COVID-19 testing.
