The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, April 4, a total of 2,679 new COVID-19 cases in the past week. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Monday's weekly case bulletin was recorded from March 28 to April 3. There was one additional case tagged under critical and severe cases. According to the...
Hot air balloons are seen during an event to celebrate the National Tourism Year 2022 in Quang Nam province, Vietnam, March 25, 2022. (VNA/Handout via Xinhua) HANOI, Vietnam -- With proactive and continuous efforts, Vietnam is stepping up the resumption of international tourism while flexibly...
Getting five or six Covid-19 shots can run the risk of losing the vaccines' overall effectiveness, or worse, might render the person ineligible to get upgraded or multivalent vaccines against variants of concern (VOC) in the future. A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...
Nothing is certain, according to an official of the Department of Health (DOH), as the possibility of having another spike in Covid-19 cases is always present. Shoppers flock to bargain stores along Ilaya Street in Divisoria, Binondo, Manila, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) In a press...
Curious on what an endemic situation looks like? (Jansen Romero / Manila Bulletin File Photo) According to a pediatric infectious disease expert, how the country currently responds to Covid-19 infections and case spikes all over the world is something that would be expected in an endemic situation....
Twenty-five scholars have finished training in Barangay Infectious Disease Management Services (BIDMS) Level II under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). Photo from TESDA The scholars, mostly from various areas of Parañaque City, have already received their training...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has expressed deep concern over the dramatic rise in the illegal drug trafficking activities using the Internet. With the Covid-19 pandemic, PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva drug traffickers took advantage of the “technological boom’’...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) urged the public on Friday, March 25 to get tested regularly for early detection to prevent transmission and to also get vaccinated or receive booster shots for added protection. Students, faculty and non-teaching staff of the University of the East Manila campus in...
A total of 2,583 Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) personnel were promoted to various posts on Wednesday, March 23. BJMP chief Jail Director Allan Iral administered the simultaneous oath-taking of the 2,528 Jail Non-Officer Rank (JNOR) and 55 BJMP Jail Officer Rank (JOR) through...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, March 21 that it recorded 3,572 new Covid-19 cases in the past week. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15, 2022 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. (ALI...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC), the central human resource (HR) agency of the Philippine government said on Monday, March 21 that it supports the recommendation of the compressed four-day work week. (Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN) During the Laging Handa public briefing, CSC Commissioner...
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, March 15 that the University of the Philippines (UP), through its Philippine Genome Center (PGC) in UP Visayas and in UP Mindanao, announced that it is now capable of sequencing the genome of SARS-CoV-2 from community samples in both island groups....
