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UPDATES ON NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19)

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Updates on COVID-19 Vaccines

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Date	Time	Update
February 05, 2021	1:00 PM	DOH issues Press Release: DOTR-DOH joint statement on the mandatory use of face mask inside vehicles Pursuant to the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Department of Health (DOH) shall observe and enforce following guidelines on the wearing of face mask inside vehicles...
February 04, 2021	1:00 PM	DOH issues Press Release: PH to receive 5M to 9M Astrazeneca doses from COVAX by Q2 The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe expressed optimism that the Philippines will receive the 44 million doses allocated by the COVAX Facility within the year with up to 9.2 million doses arriving within the first and second quarter...
February 03, 2021		Interim National Immunization Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 Vaccines Resolution No. 1
February 03, 2021	5:00 PM	DOH issues Press Release: Right test for the right reason: updates on new testing technologies and protocols for COVID-19 he Department of Health clarifies that the use of saliva as an alternative specimen for RT-PCR testing among Philippine Red Cross (PRC) laboratories is not awaiting review of accuracy by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) and has already been approved as of 21 January 2021...
January 31, 2021	9:00 AM	DOH issues Press Release: CBCP to transform Churches to vaccination sites The Department of Health (DOH) today welcomed the announcement of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to transform church facilities in the country to COVID-19 vaccination sites...
January 30, 2021	5:00 PM	DOH issues Press Release: DOH, PGC: NO B.1.1.7 variant detected among 48 samples sequenced Due to the global shortage of sequencing reagents for high throughput whole genome sequencing, the Department of Health (DOH) reports that the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) was able to sequence only 48 samples for the fourth batch of sequencing, and none of which was positive for the B.1.1.7 variant...

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