Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna- Pangan urged the public to get the second Covid-19  booster shot ahead of the rollout of bivalent vaccines for the general public. In her social media address, The Capital Report, on Thursday, June 29, the  mayor lamented the low turnout in booster...
Seven hundred twenty-six new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday, June 18. Photo courtesy of Pixabay This was the highest number of new cases in the past six days. With that, the latest figure of Covid-19 patients in the country has reached 8,861, a slight...
Muntinlupa City’s total active Covid-19 cases continued to decrease in the past two weeks, dipping below 100. According to the City Health Office (CHO), as of June 5, Muntinlupa has 52 active Covid-19 cases, down by 44 cases or 45.8 percent, compared to 96 tallied as of May 29. The city had 114...
The Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila have shown a consistent downtrend. (Janssen Romero / Manila Bulletin file) OCTA Research fellow Guido David said the National Capital Region (NCR) positivity rate dipped to 21.2% as of May 28. This is a further decrease from 25.2% last May 21. "DOH reported 0...
LUCENA City, Quezon – The Quezon Provincial Health Office has recorded an increase in the number of active Covid cases in the province. The Quezon Provincial Health Office (QPHO) said that from only one on April 10, cases suddenly surged on May 3, more than double the daily average of new...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto called on Pasigueño parents to have their children vaccinated against preventable diseases as part of the national government's efforts in boosting the number of children immunized against measles, rubella, and polio. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto "Sana magtulungan po...
As Filipinos commemorate Labor Day, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has approved Executive Order (EO) No. 23 which will strengthen inter-agency coordination and facilitate the resolution of labor disputes. *President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (File photo)* Executive Secretary Lucas...
As part of its efforts to further improve its disaster and emergency preparedness and response, the municipality of Morong in Rizal inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Next Generation Advanced 911 (NGA 911) for the launching of its advanced emergency communication services in the town. The...
Violence should not be inflicted on anyone. This was stated by the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) on Tuesday, April 18, in response to a viral video showing a police officer maltreating his partner. “We cannot even begin to imagine the immense pain that she was subjected to, given those...
The Department of Health (DOH) will launch next month a nationwide supplemental immunization campaign against measles, rubella, and polio in a bid to prevent possible outbreak of such diseases this year. The DOH is targeting to immunize 11 million children against measles, rubella, and polio...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, April 10, reported that there are over 1,900 new Covid-19 infections in the country. DOH said that a total of 1,944 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the country from April 3 to 9. The average number of new cases per day this week, DOH said, stood at 278...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, March 27, a total of 1,298 new Covid-19 cases that were recorded in the past week. In its weekly case bulletin, DOH said that the daily average cases are currently at 185 which is 11 percent lower than the cases on March 13 to March 19. DOH recorded...