Health

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia is in negotiations to buy 6.4 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine and is seeking to boost its imports from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer-BioNTech as the country is looking to boost its pandemic arsenal.Around $500 million is being invested by the Southeast Asian nation to purchase enough vaccines to inoculate 26.5 million residents, or 82.8 …

Surprisingly, hundreds of businesses have expressed support for British drugmaker AstraZeneca to acquire the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from the private sector. Joey Concepcion the presidential business advisor and founder of Go Negosyo shared in a statement that there was an impressive turnout for the purchasing of a second batch of COVID-19 vaccines, as more than 200 corporations showed …

The intense work for coronavirus shots continues as the country’s vaccine czar maintained that amid some delays in talks with manufacturers the government is still on track with its vaccine’s search. Amid updates that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III dropped the ball in negotiations with US drugmaker Pfizer by failing to sign a single text here’s Carlito Galvez Jr., who …

Through the nation’s anticipation of the vaccine, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has announced that the accredited media covering the House of Representatives and their families will be first in line in the chamber’s coronavirus vaccination campaign once the shots become available for mass use in the country. For this reason, The House is setting aside P50 million from its internal …

One of the options Philippines have just updates the country on it’s withdrawal schedule for vaccine. In view of this, the Food and Drug Administration has shared that AstraZeneca cancelled from conducting trials for its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The local regulators were advised by the British-Swedish drugmaker that they already had enough evidence, which is why they will no longer …

The most anticipated COVID-19 vaccine finally arrived in Jakarta and it was immediately taken to the headquarters of the state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java, where it is now being kept under tight military and police guard. Indonesia has obtained 1.2 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a biopharmaceutical corporation headquartered in Beijing, …

Indonesia doesn’t stop focusing on the WHO-initiated global COVAX vaccine facility for next year’s COVID-19 vaccine. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi update this after receiving 1.2 million doses of Sinovac vaccine from China. The government was actually blessed by 1.2 million doses of the COVID-19 pandemic vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech recently as part of the first direct shipment batch from …

KUALA LUMPUR: On Friday, Malaysia signed an agreement with Pfizer Inc. for 20% of the population to receive its Covid-19 vaccine as it fights a revival of coronavirus infections. The deal to inoculate 12.8 million doses for 6.4 million people depends on the approval of the Pfizer vaccine by the US Food and Drug Administration and the Malaysian drug regulator, …

In an effort to integrate automated contact tracing data eight months after the pandemic, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) also allows national government departments and local government units to use StaySafe.ph, the government’s official contact tracing software. In its battle against the coronavirus, the government policy-making body also urges private organizations to use …

The Duterte administration declared that it intends to get 60 to 70 million Filipinos vaccinated against coronavirus in three to five years, with some 35 million inoculation priorities already established. In a Laging Handa briefing, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the vaccine czar of the country, shared that by mid-2021, mass vaccination could begin in the best case scenario. But he …