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IATF urged to give frontliners, high-risk individuals booster shots for added protection

Former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and allies in Congress urged the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to administer booster shots to frontline health workers and immunocompromised individuals given their “high risk of exposure and distinct vulnerability" to COVID-19.

More Sinovac, Sinopharm COVID jabs arrive in PH

The COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese vaccine manufacturers Sinovac and Sinopharm arrived in the Philippines on Saturday, Aug. 21.

Southern Tagalog Regional Hospital of Cavite at full bed capacity

By Ruel Francisco/Philippine Information Agency The Southern Tagalog Regional Hospital (STRH) in Bacoor City, Cavite, is operating at full bed capacity as corridors are being converted into treatment facilities and ER tents...

DILG rehires 84 contact tracers in Antique

By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay/Philippine News Agency San Jose de Buenavista, Antique - The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will redeploy 84 contact tracers to this province’s 18 municipalities starting...

DOH calls for targeted, recalibrated actions on high-risk activities as NCR, Laguna and Bataan shift to MECQ

The Department of Health (DOH) today called for more targeted and recalibrated actions towards high-risk activities, as the National Capital Region and the provinces of Bataan and Laguna shift to Modified...

PH gets add’l donated Sinopharm vax from China

The Philippines received today (Aug. 20) around 739,200 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses as part of the one million dose donation of the Chinese government to the country.

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