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It was President Rodrigo Duterte who ordered the withdrawal.

Midinformation is the term to define misunderstandings and confusion based on scant or emerging evidence, often about emerging scientific knowledge.

VERA Files Fact Check spoke to a local infectious disease expert Marissa Alejandria and public health experts Christin Gilmer and Nat Gyenes from global technology nonprofit Meedan who shared these tips to navigate through uncertainty in health information.

Health experts underscored the need to “increase the pace of vaccination” as the Philippines' coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections breached the one million mark on April 26.

The Philippines welcomed the second quarter of 2021 with record-high numbers of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Currently at over 864,000, a research group has predicted that the nationwide count for local coronavirus infections will reach one million by the end of the month.

Nowhere in the clip did Marcoleta threaten to imprison Domingo or Duque.

There are no media reports nor official statements from Malacañang that support this.

The photos of people swimming and frolicking on the beach in the central and southern regions are misleading.

More than a year into the #COVID19 pandemic, the Philippines is waging war on two fronts — battling the deadly coronavirus and confronting vaccine hesitancy.

Herd immunity ー the indirect protection from an infectious disease among the population ー is the goal that most governments, including the Philippines, hope to achieve in one to two years’ time through vaccination against COVID-19.

The very first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in the Philippines were officially administered at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and five other referral hospitals in Metro Manila on March 1.

LGUs may still require testing prior to travel. Quarantine is not required except if individuals “exhibit symptoms upon arrival at the LGU of destination.”

She's a pediatric surgeon from Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center in Marikina City.

“We do not advocate drinking pineapple drinks! This will not work,” the lead researcher of the study told VERA Files.

“Our decision to get Sinovac was based on science,” said Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Director Gerardo Legaspi.

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.

After months of expedited clinical trials, several coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are now nearing market distribution, and a few are already out for public use.

A month-old video of Facebook page Lynn Channel echoes another false claim about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).