Surprisingly, casting a ballot 225 with six abstentions led the House of Representatives endorsed on third and last perusing House Bill 8648 of the Emergency Vaccine Procurement Act which speeds up immunization acquisition and distributes P500 million as pay for people who may endure unfriendly impacts of COVID-19 antibodies. The legislators recently overwhelmingly casted a ballot for the bill wrote …

The nation’s Food and Drug Administration has conceded an Emergency Use Authorization for the Covid antibody created by Chinese drug firm Sinovac Biotech. It is actually the third COVID-19 poke to get the endorsement required for rollout in the public authority’s vaccination program after the antibodies created by AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech. In view of this, After an intensive and thorough …

Mayor Vico Sotto has declared that Pasig City is the first local government unit (LGU) to have a Department of Health / World Health Organization approved coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination programme. After consulting vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr and research czar Vince Dizon, Sotto made the announcement. In a Senate hearing, the DOH earlier revealed that Pasig City was …

The controversial and on the hot spot Sinovac of China has obtained permission for its coronavirus vaccine to hold clinical trials in the region, local regulators. These tests, including a certain number of patients, are performed to assess if candidate vaccines are safe and reliable for the lethal virus that has infected and killed millions. Last year, five drugmakers had …

The lawmakers sealed their agreement of the second to the last budget of the Duterte administration next year, plotting it on course for a timely passage that is crucial to ensure that new pandemic recovery initiatives are immediately supported. House and Senate budget leaders in a briefing that the P4.5-trillion proposed spending plan was accepted by their respective contingents, up …

President Rodrigo Duterte signed two administrative orders authorizing additional compensation to be given directly in touch with COVID-19 patients to frontline health staff and to public and private health employees. In view of this, AO No. 35 approved the awarding during the state of national emergency of active threat service pay to health employees working on the frontlines. Meanwhile, AO …

METRO MANILA – One of China’s candidate vaccine for COVID-19 has been cleared by the country for Phase 3 clinical trial that is expected to start by November. According to the Food and Drug Administration director general Eric Domingo the vaccine expert panel from the  Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has given the vaccine the green light to proceed …

PETALING JAYA – Around 61% of Malaysians agreed with the High Court’s conviction of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of all seven charges relating to the RM42 million SRC International Sdn Bhd case. According to Merdeka Center survey, More than half of Malay respondents agreed with the court’s decision, while 18% said otherwise. The independent pollster released today …

On Monday, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno approved an ordinance to set up a cemetery for Muslims exclusively in the country’s capital. The 2,400-square-meter cemetery will be located inside the Manila South Cemetery, Moreno said in a Facebook video message. A cultural hall measuring 56 square meters will also be installed inside the Muslim cemetery. Moreno said it was appropriating a …