Dumating na sa Davao City ang dagdag na Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine para sa mga kabataang may edad 5 hanggang 11 taon para sa pagsisimula ng pagbabakuna sa age group sa Davao region ngayong Lunes (Peb. 14).
The Department of Health (DOH) said only four of the more than 50,000 children aged 5 to 11 years old who were administered COVID-19 vaccines experienced adverse reactions which were considered mild.
The Department of Health (DOH) viewed as a “cause of concern” the recent mass gatherings in the conduct of campaign activities for the May 2022 national and local elections.
The local government said that the latest data released by the City Health Services Office (CHSO) and University of the Philippines-Baguio Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (UP-DMCS) showed that of most of the 397 people who died due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recorded from Aug. 18, 2021 to January this year were unvaccinated.
South Korea's daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a record high amid the spread of the Omicron variant, the health authorities said on Saturday (Feb. 12).
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the Philippines warned against the "dangerous" assumption that Omicron would bring the world to the pandemic endgame as new variants could still emerge.
