The Philippines received 720,000 doses of the government-procured Sputnik V vaccine on Saturday (Oct. 16), the biggest delivery so far by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute.
MANILA – National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. called on local government units (LGUs) to scale up their vaccination rates as more jabs will be delivered in the coming weeks.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday (Oct. 16) reported that as of 8:00 p.m., a total of 1,151 children have been vaccinated as part of the government’s pediatric inoculation.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Saturday (Oct. 16) reiterated that it was the Department of Health (DOH) that will decide on the determination of the pilot implementation level of the Alert Level System.
In a bid to strengthen contact tracing (CT), testing and further boost government response amid the pandemic, 1,250 members of Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTS) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) were trained in public communications, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-CAR.
