PNP-NCRPO given free 6-month coverage for pneumonia ASEAN insurer, Etiqa Philippines, wins the COVID Management Initiative in Insurance Asia Awards 2021 for its efforts to help frontliners. At the height of the pandemic, the company delivered 5,700 complete sets of personal protective equipment...
The Office of the Ombudsman is willing to absorb the P710.88 million that the Department of Budget and Management slashed from its original budget proposal if the fund can find better use in efforts of government to fight the devastating 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Ombudsman logo...
The Department of Finance (DOF) reported it has disbursed $19.8 billion of the total foreign loans and grants for coronavirus response of the Duterte administration. DOF Building in Manila Since the pandemic began last year, the government’s COVID-19 war chest from foreign financing and grant...
The Philippines has not been sluggish in vaccinating its people against the COVID-19, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. maintained on Thursday, September 9. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) flock at the Matina Town Square in Davao City to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus disease. (Keith...
DOH LOGO The Department of Health (DOH) clarified that more than 17,000 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were logged on Wednesday, Sept. 8. In a statement on Thursday, Sept, 9, the DOH said that 5,000 more cases were added on Wednesday’s COVID-19 tally. Originally, the DOH reported 12,751 new...
FDA The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that only 242 fully vaccinated individuals against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country experienced “breakthrough infections” out of millions of Filipinos who completed the regimen. FDA Director-General Rolando Enrique Domingo said that...
The country's largest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) referral center is grappling with manpower shortage after 10 of its volunteer doctors resigned, its spokesperson said Thursday, Sept. 9. Philippine General Hospital (PNA) In an interview with CNN Philippines, Dr. Jonas del Rosario said the...
The Philippine government is looking at focusing on vaccinating teachers and school personnel this year so that face-to-face classes can be conducted in the country. Grade school teachers of St. Francis of Assisi College meet with their pupils online. (ALI VICOY/MANILA BULLETIN) During a hearing of...
Four areas in Metro Manila is approaching a downward trend in new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the OCTA Research said Thursday, Sept. 9. OCTA Research monitoring report Based on OCTA’s latest monitoring report, these areas are Navotas (1.04), Las Piñas (1.11), Malabon (1.13), and...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) urged the Department of Health (DOH) to hasten its review of its policies for the possible expansion of the Special Risk Allowance (SRA) coverage to include all health workers who served in hospitals and other health facilities during the coronavirus disease...
The Departments of Health and Trade and Industry should put in place mechanisms that would make sure testing laboratories will comply with the reduced price cap for real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or swab tests, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Thursday, Sept....
A total of 122 children and personnel of the Gentlehands Orphanage in Barangay Bagumbuhay, Quezon City have tested positive for COVID-19. (UNSPLASH) Out of the total number, 99 are children with ages 18 and below. A total of 143 individuals were tested and 118 yielded positive results for...
