President Marcos has lifted the nationwide state of public health emergency due to COVID-19, ending over three years of various degrees of pandemic restrictions that had crippled the economy and reversed anti-poverty gains. |kdevillaINQ NCorralesINQ /PDI
After the expiration of the EUA authorized under Executive Order No. 121 by then-President Rodrigo Duterte, COVID-19 vaccines will need a certificate of product registration to allow drug manufacturers to sell and distribute the shots.
Rep. Angelica Natasha Co, vice chair of the health committee of the House of Representatives, said the government must keep pushing hard to give the jabs to the vulnerable, unvaccinated, and unboosted Filipinos even after the public health emergency had been lifted. The President said that although COVID-19 “remains to be a serious concern for certain subpopulation and requires continued public health response,” the country had maintained sufficient healthcare system capacity and low hospital bed utilization rates.
Dr. Rontgene Solante, an infectious disease expert who had served as the DOH’s vaccine expert panel member, said available antiviral medications for COVID-19 continue to be effective in preventing severe cases among the high-risk vulnerable populations, even against new Omicron variants.Based on monitoring by the Inquirer, the country recorded its biggest single-day case count on Jan.
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