MANILA – Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente announced that they will be implementing a resolution from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) suspending the travel of foreign nationals into the Philippines.
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TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday has received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in front of cameras at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine as he prepares to visit the United States in April for a summit meeting with President Joe Biden.
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TOKYO – Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo announced Friday it has begun manufacturing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the country, amid reports of blood clots in people receiving the jab in some European countries.
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TOKYO – A man returning from the Philippines tested positive for the P.3 variant first detected in the Southeast Asian country, the Japanese health ministry reported on Friday.
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TOKYO – The Japanese government will give 4.5 billion yen emergency grant aid through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to the Philippines and 24 other nations in the Asia-Pacific region to support their COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday.
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