A Manila court ordered the arrest of Peter Joemel Advincula, alias “Bikoy,” for his failure to attend the arraignment and preliminary conference for his perjury case on July 21. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Manila Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 17 also ordered to forfeit the bail Advincula...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged local government units (LGUs) on Monday night, July 19, to immediately prepare strategic plans to counter the possible local transmission of the far more dangerous Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a briefing...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 44,721 within one day to 2,877,476, with the death toll adding by 1,093 to 73,582, the health ministry said on Sunday. The daily caseload was slightly down from 51,952 the previous day, but the number of deaths stayed almost the same....
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam reported another record high of 5,926 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 3,718 cases registered on Saturday, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections included 5,887 locally transmitted and 39 imported, bringing the...
Seventy-nine criminal and administrative cases have been filed by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) against erring importers and brokers over the last six months, the agency said Friday, July 16. (Photo courtesy of the BOC) A total of 167 individuals were the subject of the complaints filed by the...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Thursday admitted that the increasing number of minors committing suicide prompted the city government to identify certain areas in the city where youngsters can go to after months of being cooped up in their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing a report from...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, July 12, bared that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections are high among children below two years old. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP / FILE PHOTO) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire explained that children with ages zero to 19 years old are...
Photo taken during the turnover of the donation shows (from left): Ms. Michelle Murriel and Maj. Carol San Pedro (WCKFI volunteers), Dr. George Muscat (Medical Officer III of GRACES), Mr. Nilo Salgarino (Social Worker III of GRACES), Mr. Rosmel Daria (Social Worker II of GRACES), Ret. Gen. Gordon...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Saturday, July 3, that 99 overseas Filipinos have contracted coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bringing the total number of positive cases to 20,881. (Department of Foreign Affairs/Facebook) The DFA also reported 88 new recoveries or those who have been...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia Sunday recorded 21,342 newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily spike and bringing the total tally to 2,115,304, the Health Ministry said. The COVID-19 related death toll rose by 409 to 57,138, the ministry reported. A total...
60 percent more transmissible, with the Philippines logging at least 13 cases, with one death Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana Two months ago, the most horrific scenes of mass cremations were coming out of India. People were dying from lack of oxygen and bodies were washing up on the banks of the River...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,833 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, June 18. Active cases in the country stood at 61,776. This is 4.6 percent of the country’s running tally of confirmed cases currently at 1,346,276. Of the active infections, 92.2 percent...
