MANILA – The Philippines has received a total of 2,279,160 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Thursday, the biggest shipment of the American-made jabs through the COVAX Facility. accine Czar, Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr., said as soon as the inspection has been completed and the DHL logistics gives a go-signal for distribution, the government will immediately deploy the vaccines to areas with appropriate cold storage facilities. Around 1.9 million doses were transported to Manila, while 210,600 each were allocated to Cebu and Davao region. In Luzon, the latest donation will mostly go to Metro Manila, Laguna,

MANILA – The resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is an “exercise in futility” at this time. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), in a statement on Friday, rejected the renewed call to reopen the GPH-NDFP peace panel in the wake of continued attacks by communist terrorist groups (CTGs). “As these recent spates of attacks will bear us out, we believe the resumption of national peace talks at this point is an exercise in futility, given that the implementation of Executive

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported 3,190 new recoveries from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In its latest Covid-19 bulletin, the agency said this brought the country’s recovery tally to 1,216,497 or 93.6 percent of the total 1,300,349 infections since the pandemic started last year. Another 6,686 new cases were also reported, raising the country’s active cases to 61,345 or 4.7 percent of all infections. Of these active cases, it said most were exhibiting mild symptoms at 91.6 percent, followed by the asymptomatic at 4.3 percent, those with severe symptoms at 1.7 percent, those in critical

MANILA – Senator Christopher “Bong” Go urged national and local government authorities to exert all efforts to expedite the vaccine rollout by bringing it down to communities and households especially for senior citizens who cannot leave their homes. His appeal came as the country received more than two million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, June 10, and is expected to receive more than 10 million doses this month. “Bilang Chair ng Senate Committee on Health, nananawagan ako na dalhin natin agad ang bakuna sa taumbayan, simula sa mga critical areas, sa NCR plus 8, at kahit saan mang

MANILA – All fully-vaccinated individuals in the Philippines who wish to travel overseas need to first secure a certification indicating that they already received two jabs against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Malacañang said on Friday. This developed after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) revised on Thursday the guidelines on inbound international travel to any port of the Philippines of all fully vaccinated individuals who have been inoculated in the Philippines. “The IATF issued a date of effectivity in the abovementioned guideline, which is, June 16, 2021,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who concurrently

MANILA—San Juan City’s active Covid-19 cases are down to 88, which Mayor Francis Zamora on Friday attributed to residents’ efforts to follow health protocols. Zamora said the city recorded as many as 1,296 active cases on April 12. “I attribute this to the concerted efforts of the San Juaneño people to follow health protocols and our local government’s intensified vaccination program in San Juan,” Zamora said in a statement. San Juan has already vaccinated 33,736 residents, representing 40 percent of the city’s 85,400 target population for inoculation. He also thanked the national government for providing a steady supply that ensures