Nov 25, 2020, Pia Ranada MANILA, Philippines The government has identified 35 million Filipinos who will be given the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses Once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved by Philippine authorities, the government aims to vaccinate around 60 million to 70 million of its citizens in 3 to 5 years, said the…
Nov 21, 2020, Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, DC, USA Here are the next steps in the approval and distribution process for a coronavirus vaccine With US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech applying for an emergency use authorization in the United States for their coronavirus vaccine and US biotech company Moderna expected to do…
Nov 18, 2020, Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, DC, USA Pfizer says the vaccine had no serious side effects and that the company will apply for emergency use authorization from US regulators ‘within days’ The biotech company Pfizer said Wednesday, November 18, that a completed study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed it is 95% effective. Pfizer…
Oct 21, 2020/ Sofia Tomacruz, Rappler.Com MANILA, Philippines Here’s what you need to know about the process of approving clinical trials, when a COVID-19 vaccine might be rolled out, and who might receive it first Over 8 months into the pandemic, scientists around the world continue their search for a viable COVID-19 vaccine as countries…