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House adds P5.5B allocation for future COVID-19 vaccine purchase

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 20 03:32 PM

Around P5.5 billion of funds were realigned in next year's spending plan to bankroll the expected procurement of coronavirus vaccine, a House leader said Tuesday, following criticisms that the initial P2.5 billion was insufficient to inoculate the population.  Read more »

China's Sinovac vaccine is safe, Brazil institute says

Roxanne Liu and Anthony Boadle, Reuters
Posted at Oct 20 01:41 PM

An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech appeared to be safe in a late-stage clinical trial in Brazil, preliminary results have showed.  Read more »

Palace: Logistics a 'challenge' to coronavirus vaccine distribution

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 20 11:42 AM

MANILA— While authorities have secured funds for the COVID-19 vaccine, its importation and storage set-up remains a "challenge," Malacañang said Tuesday.    Read more »

Health department seeks additional P10 billion to fund COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 19 04:49 PM

The Department of Health (DOH) is seeking an additional P10 billion in funds to buy COVID-19 vaccine in order to inoculate 20 percent of the country’s population, the agency’s spokesperson said Monday. Read more »

China will fulfil its promise to make its vaccines a global public good, foreign minister says

Linda Lew, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Oct 19 02:17 PM

Beijing will also ‘contribute to the accessibility and affordability of the vaccines in developing countries’, Wang Yi says. His statement comes after Wang’s charm offensive in Southeast Asia. Read more »

Talks underway to make potential COVID-19 vaccine accessible to Filipinos- Vergeire

Angela Coloma, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 17 02:04 PM

-Talks are under way to make a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine more accessible and more affordable for Filipinos, as the race for the vaccine for the highly-contagious disease continues.  Read more »

'Kulang' na pondo para sa COVID-19 vaccine sa 2021 budget hahanapan ng solusyon: Quimbo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 17 12:38 PM

MAYNILA - May panahon pa para matakalay ang napakaliit na pondo nakalaan para sa bakuna laban sa COVID-19 sa naaprubahang ng Kongreso na 2021 national budget.   Read more »

Pfizer says earliest COVID-19 vaccine application to US regulators would be after election

Manas Mishra and Michael Erman, Reuters
Posted at Oct 16 10:25 PM

Pfizer Inc said on Friday it may file for U.S. authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, making it unlikely a vaccine will be available before the U.S. election as President Donald Trump has promised. Read more »

PH gov’t open to having more Filipinos volunteer for WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine trials

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 06:15 PM

MANILA — The Philippine government said it would be amenable to raising its target number of participants for the local run of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 vaccine trial.  Read more »

Infra budget, funds of underspending agencies may be realigned for COVID-19 vaccines - lawmaker

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 05:13 PM

Infrastructure budget of some districts or allocation of underspending agencies may be realigned to fund COVID-19 vaccines for 20 million Filipinos next year, a lawmaker said Friday. Read more »

Sinopharm calls off COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in PH, Sinovac awaits ethics review

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 16 05:23 PM

MANILA — A Chinese vaccine developer backed out of initial plans to hold clinical trials in the Philippines, according to the Department of Science and Technology on Friday. Read more »

20M vaccinations, not enough funds: 2021 budget for COVID-19 vaccines 'insufficient' - solons

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 07:24 AM

MANILA - The health department’s proposed budget for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines next year is insufficient to cover President Rodrigo Duterte’s target of getting at least 20 million poor Filipinos vaccinated, according to some lawmakers. Read more »

FDA: Vaccine trials in PH could start before year ends

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 11:19 PM

Duterte, meanwhile, assured Filipinos the country could buy COVID-19 vaccines once they become commercially available.  Read more »

COVID-19 vaccine posibleng lumabas sa unang bahagi ng 2021: FDA chief

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 15 07:32 PM

Posible raw na magkaroon na ng bakuna kontra COVID-19 sa unang quarter o 3 buwan ng 2021.  Read more »

Philippines eyes Sinovac trial as early as November

Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema, Reuters
Updated as of Oct 15 05:22 PM

Sinovac Biotech may start late-stage trials of its coronavirus vaccine in the Philippines as early as next month, its food and drug agency chief said on Thursday, after it hurdled the initial stage of the country's screening process. Read more »

Russia eyes pharma facility in Philippines for COVID-19 vaccine: Palace

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 11:11 AM

Moscow is eyeing building a pharmaceutical facility in the Philippines that will manufacture Russia's vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus, Malacañang said Thursday. Read more »

'Nakahanap na ako ng pera': Duterte says funds available for COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 14 11:44 PM

MANILA - The Philippines will be able to buy a coronavirus vaccine once it is developed and deemed effective, President Rodrigo Duterte announced Wednesday, saying he has found funds to purchase the vaccine. Read more »

Putin says Russia approves second COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters
Posted at Oct 14 10:03 PM

MOSCOW - Russia has granted regulatory approval to a second COVID-19 vaccine, a delighted President Vladimir Putin announced at a government meeting on Wednesday.   Read more »

New lockdowns from China to Europe as virus trials stumble

Patrick Markey, with Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Oct 14 02:20 PM

As Europe imposed new restrictions to try to stall a surging second wave of the novel coronavirus, hopes for vaccines to rapidly provide relief suffered a blow Tuesday with the suspension of two clinical trials in the United States.   Read more »

Second COVID-19 trial paused within 24 hours over safety concerns

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 08:43 AM

Two late-stage COVID-19 medical trials have been paused in the space of 24 hours over potential safety concerns, the latest setbacks to scientists in the long fight against the pandemic. Read more »