MB Daily News Update


A slight majority of Filipinos is confident that the government has done well in evaluating the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that are being used in its inoculation program.

The government is also expecting a huge number of households in the National Capital Region (NCR)-Plus Bubble to show signs of recovery in the two weeks of the general community quarantine (GCQ) that will last until the end of the month.

These are among the top stories we’ve lined up this Friday morning, May 21, 2021.


An elderly man is visited by a team from the Manila Health Department Office on Thursday, May 20, 2021, at his residence in Tondo, Manila so that they could inoculate him with the Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Ali Vicoy)
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