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Malacañang warned social media users spreading fake information that aim to sabotage the government’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts that authorities will find them and file the appropriate charges that will put them in jail.

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque credited President Duterte for the Philippines’ biggest medal haul in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that saw Filipino athletes coming home with its first-ever gold medal, two silver medals, and one bronze medal.

More than 24 million doses of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines administered, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday, August 9.

ILOILO CITY – For this year, at least 93 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Iloilo City are those unvaccinated.

BEIJING, China — A new study led by Chinese astronomers has shed light on the mysterious dimming of Betelgeuse, the brightest reddish star located in the shoulder of the Orion constellation.

The Pasay City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) confirmed that there are 22 children below the age of 18 who are afflicted with the coronaviruse disease (COVID-19).

DAVAO CITY – More multi-national Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies are planning to relocate their operations to Davao City from India as it continues to grapple with a surge of cases driven by the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Xavier Eric B. Manalastas, president of the BPO Association of Davao, said the city, considered as one of the country’s BPO hubs, has around 50 BPO companies with a total number of workers estimated at 45,000 to 50,000.

Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra on Monday, August 9, reminded law enforcers on the established processes in the apprehensions of violators of health and safety protocols, especially in areas under enhanced community quarantince (ECQ like the National Capital Region (NCR).

Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III reiterated on Monday, Aug. 9 that employers can’t make vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a condition or requirement for work.

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. did not mince his words in criticizing Vice President Leni Robredo and some “senior senators” over their proposal to realign the multi-billion peso budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for the social amelioration program or “ayuda” of residents affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque has left the fate of those who continued to refuse to be vaccinated to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia on Monday confirmed 508 new COVID-19 cases, of which 121 were imported, raising the national total caseload to 82,399, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.Twenty-three more fatalities had been registered, taking the overall death toll to 1,585, the MoH said, adding that 660 other patients had recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 76,155.The Southeast Asian nation began a COVID-19 vaccination drive for adults on Feb. 10 and for adolescents aged 12 to 17 on Aug. 1, aiming to inoculate 12 million people, or 75 percent of its 16 million population by November.MoH’s secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said as of Sunday, the country had inoculated 8.15 million people, including 7.87 million adults and 279,077 adolescents, accounting for 50.95 percent of the total population.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is expected to bring home more than 7,000 stranded overseas Filipinos this month through a combination of chartered and Bayanihan flights.