TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday extended the current state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic for Tokyo and the western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo until May 31 as new variants of the virus are becoming prevalent in the country.

PASAY CITY – The Philippines received on Saturday the single biggest delivery from the WHO-led COVAX Facility consisting of 2,030,400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.

PASAY CITY – Some 1.5 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine arrived in the Philippines at 7:59 a.m., May 7, the single biggest delivery made by the China-based manufacturer so far.

PASAY CITY – An initial supply of 15,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines last May 1 on board a Qatar Airways flight.