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It has been 23 years since the Department of Health conducted its largest inoculation drive involving 22.9 million Filipinos aged 9 to 14 for the measles-rubella supplemental immunization activity, according to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire.

There are no official records nor any report from news organizations of Galvez making such a remark.

Coconut oil, a major Philippine export, is gaining renewed attention for its potential antiviral properties against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has already claimed more than 2.4 million lives globally.

Health experts and authorities say a direct link between the drug and ITP remains uncertain.

​Apart from COVID-19 itself, there is a battle being waged against vaccine-related misinformation.

The COVID-19 pandemic is real, with over 109.5 million cases of the disease recorded in 192 countries as of Feb. 17.

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No such announcements have been made by the president nor the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The presidential spokesperson on his official FB page also decried the quote card as "fake."

Its publisher said the post is “a joke” and a “satire.”

But vaccine administrators were advised to weigh carefully if frail and terminally ill patients should still be given the jab.

She talked about how a French infectious disease expert found numerous adverse effects of the vaccine candidate, and raised doubts about the product.

The fake report stated that the claim is based on “findings from a University of California study” conducted on 1,500 men. Not true.