(BusinessWorld) THE PHILIPPINES will start vaccinating children aged five to 11 on Feb. 4, the country’s vaccine chief said on Monday night.
The first batch of vaccines for children will arrive next week, vaccine czar Carlito G. Galvez, Jr. told a taped Cabinet meeting with President Rodrigo R. Duterte. The Department of Health (DoH) would release the guidelines this week.
The US Embassy briefed local officials this month on how to proceed with the vaccination, he added.
Mr. Galvez said kids in the five to 11 age group would be given doses lower than the ones given out to children aged 12 to 17.
He said the vaccination of children would be in phases, adding that two sites would be set up per area in Metro Manila in the pilot implementation.
After the initial rollout, the vaccination of kids would be expanded to other sites in the metropolis and other regions, he added.
The country would get 780,000 doses of the pediatric formulation for Pfizer, Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 31, National Task Force Against COVID-19 consultant Ted Herbosa told a televised news briefing on Tuesday.
About 1.8 million more doses would be delivered a few days later, he added… Read More