Ellen Adarna and Derek Ramsay are currently in Africa for their honeymoon. But they haven’t forgotten fans back home. They have been incessantly sharing photos of their trip on social media. These include one where they, once again, displayed acrobatic skills, doing an unusual pose. In it, the...
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo -- Africa must boost the vaccination rate against COVID-19 ''six times'' to reach the target of 70 percent vaccine coverage set for the end of the first half of 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. President Cyril Ramaphosa gets his COVID-19 vaccine (AFP)...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday, Jan. 31, reported 250 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases among overseas Filipinos. Department of Foreign Affairs (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) According to the DFA, the additional cases pushed the total of COVID-19-stricken Filipinos abroad to...
Samela Aubrey Godin The usual fairy tale ending for any Filipina international beauty queen aspirant often shows the ambitious but kindhearted protagonist finally getting the crown she really worked hard for on her head. She gratefully waves to an adoring crowd, makes the headlines the following...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,143,184 cases as of late Saturday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) said the death toll...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Infection rates are soaring across South Africa as a result of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but fewer people have died or required hospital treatment compared to previous waves of Covid, health officials said Friday. On Wednesday, South Africa recorded the...
PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN The Department of Health (DOH) said that five of the seven unlocated travelers who arrived in the Philippines from South Africa have already been found. "Yes, we have already located another five, so we are just trying to locate two of these travellers," DOH Undersecretary...
Retired police general and senatorial aspirant Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar wants to hold accountable the eight travelers from South Africa who allegedly put wrong contact details in a tracing form. The Department of Health said the eight travelers have to be subjected to swab test as they came from a...
One of the eight travelers from South Africa has been located. DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed this on Wednesday, Dec. 8. "As of Dec. 6, 2021, there are seven remaining unlocated travelers from South Africa and all were returning overseas Filipinos," Health Undersecretary Maria...
Acting presidential spokesman Karlo Nograles on Wednesday, Dec. 8, asked the eight passengers who arrived in the country from South Africa to “please come (forward) immediately.” PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN South Africa is the country from where the reportedly highly transmissible Omicron variant...
Filipinos who have been stranded in South Africa, were told to keep calm and reach out to the Philippine Embassy there amid the imposition of travel bans due to the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN The Philippine Embassy in...
MB/ FILE PHOTO Three travelers who came from South Africa, Egypt, and Burkina Faso were found to be positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday, Dec. 3. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that a total of 253 travelers from South Africa, three...