MB Daily News Update


The guidelines on the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) are out as Filipinos entered yet another phase in their struggle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with guarded optimism.

There, too, are updates on vaccines, the efforts to cope with the coronavirus surge, and the West Philippine Sea dispute in our list of top stories this Monday afternoon, April 12, 2021.


A young man performs Dhuhr, or midday prayer, inside the Golden Mosque at Globo de Oro in Quiapo, Manila, on Monday, April 12, 2021. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts Tuesday, April 13, 2021, and will last until May 12, 2021. (Ali Vicoy)  
  1. PH COVID-19 Update: 11,378 new cases, 267 recoveries, 204 fatalities
  • Do want to know everything about the modified enhanced community quarantine?
  • Rapid anti-gen tests not DIY
  • Fatality rate up to 2.2 percent
  • A possible drug to combat COVID-19?
  • PH vaccination milestone – one million doses injected
  • To take or not to take Ivermectin?
  • West PH Sea Dispute
  1. Almost P800 million in benefits for tourism workers
  1. Prayer that pilgrims will recite when they visit the different Jubilee Churches in the archdiocese in celebration of the 500 years of Christianity in PH
  1. Weather Update
  1. Taal Volcano Watch