The emergence of new variants of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may mean Filipinos have to bid each other goodbye because they won’t be able to survive the infection, President Duterte warned on Thursday, Jan. 6. President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the nation on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (RTVM...
The Las Pinas City government said the unvaccinated individuals belonging to the pediatric population can get their jabs against COVID-19 from Jan. 10 to 12. Mayor Imelda Aguilar advised the parents of minors aged 12 to 17 to wait for the text message coming from the city government regarding the...
The Caloocan City government on Thursday, Jan. 6, apologized and asked for its residents' understanding over long queues at vaccination, antigen and swab testing sites. The city conducted a mass vaccination for senior citizens as well as for other age groups and non-residents in all of its sites on...
The Paranaque City government has announced the start of the registration for ParanaquenYO: Bakuna Para Sa Yo (younger ones) for children aged 5 to 11. Mayor Edwin Olivarez encouraged parents of the younger population to register their children at https://paranaquecity.ph/paranaquenyo. He said the...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano encouraged the city’s senior population to take part in the Senior Citizens Vaccination Day, especially those who remain unvaccinated. Rubiano said the city now has a total of 810 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 5. She said the Senior Vaccination Day is...
The Muntinlupa City government launched the registration for COVID-19 vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 years old. Included in the registration are 5-to-11-year-olds with and without comorbidities. The registration was launched to make a master list of kids for vaccination while the city...
The Pasig City local government announced on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that one of its vaccination sites will be converted into a COVID-19 referral center due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases. On its official Facebook page, the local government unit (LGU) said that the Pasig City Children’s...
One of President Duterte’s top economic advisers on Wednesday, Jan. 5, said that the public should “not panic” amid the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country, reiterating his call for alert levels to be guided by healthcare utilization and vaccination rates. Presidential Adviser for...
The Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) should consider conducting house-to-house vaccination to further make COVID-19 shots more accessible to the people. Rep. Precious HIpolito Castelo Quezon City 2nd District Rep. Precious Hipolito-Castelo made the appeal as she noted...
A senior citizen in Muntinluap poses with the sign "we got fully vaccinated" after getting the single shot johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine (MunCoVac) The government is planning to conduct a national coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination drive for senior citizens, the Department of...
More than 25,000 minors aged 12 to 17 years old have been fully vaccinated in Muntinlupa amid the rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the city. Data from the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) showed that as of Jan. 4, a total of 25,638 minors have received the second dose of the...
OCTA Research Fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant Omicron is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until...
