Just like how the healthcare system is overwhelmed with the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, the country’s education system is also “under siege” as signs of burnout among education frontliners threaten learning continuity. MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN The Alliance of...
Hybrid MECQ? MECQ Flex? "'MECQ' is enough." President Duterte is not keen on having long and cumbersome names for quarantine classifications as the government's pandemic task force worked on making adjustments to allow more businesses to operate during the two-week extension of the modified...
A group held a candle-lighting activity to remember Filipino health workers and frontliners who lost their lives in the fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Health workers candle lighting (Photo from IOHSAD) On Wednesday night, April 28, Institute for Occupational Health and Safety...
Malacañang said the government's pandemic task force was set to meet to finalize the list of new businesses that will be allowed to reopen under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). A volunteer firefighter sprays disinfectant at the Golden Mosque in Quiapo, Manila on April 29, 2021...
Smoke coming from crematoriums--which have become more active as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic--is causing a legitimate air pollution issue. (Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno/ Unsplash) In this regard, pollution watchdog EcoWaste Coalition urged crematorium operators on Thursday,...
National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar Vince Dizon said Metro Manila's positivity rate dropped to 17 percent due to the implementation of stricter community quarantines. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual Palace briefing, Dizon attributed the decline to the...
The Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine will mostly likely be distributed to areas equipped to handle to its storage requirements, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Thursday, April 29. This handout picture taken on August 6, 2020 and provided by the Russian Direct Investment Fund shows the...
A priest from the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) shared his experience with a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive baby and a mother who found out her husband succumbed to the virus while she was in labor. (Photo courtesy of Fr. Marlito Ocon) Father Marlito Ocon, head chaplain of the PGH,...
A Cebu Pacific flight (5J671) carrying 500,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.-made anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay City on Thursday morning, April 29. (Photo by Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) The aircraft, which came from...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is still hoping that the United States, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, will be able to spare the Philippines and other countries with its excess coronavirus vaccines. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (DFA) Locsin made...
Molecular biologists and OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco hopes that the oral vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that his team is currently developing will be manufactured in the Philippines. Rev. Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgo Austriaco (CBHD) “I would like to do everything...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has assisted the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Region II in transporting over 1,200 personal protective equipment (PPEs) and medical supplies in Batanes on Tuesday, April 27. In a statement on Thursday, April 29, the PCG deployed the BRP Capones (MRRV-4404) to...
