The Quezon City government on Saturday started inoculating expecting mothers against COVID-19. (QUEZON CITY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE/ MANILA BULLETIN) Pregnant women who are in their second and third trimesters are allowed to be vaccinated. Before the vaccination, they will be checked up...
Former IZ*ONE member An Yu-jin (left) and N.Flying’s Kim Jae-hyun (Instagram) An Yu-jin, 18, former member of K-pop girl group IZ*ONE, and Kim Jae-hyun, 27, member of rap rock band N.Flying, tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Starship Entertainment announced on Sept. 4 that...
Government programs that sought to address the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic ‘contributed greatly to the net increase” of P472.572 billion in the country’s external debt in 2020, the Commission on Audit (COA) has revealed. COVID 19 tests In its 2020 Consolidated Audit Report on...
Wellington, New Zealand - New Zealand recorded its first Covid-related death in six months Saturday, but health authorities said there were signs the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant was coming under control. A woman in her 90s, who had underlying health conditions and could not...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Independent research group OCTA urged the government to extend the implementation of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) in Metro Manila for two more weeks to see a decrease in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the region. In a...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered an inventory of the medicines and other supplies for its personnel as the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continue to rise. The PNP has so far recorded more than 35,000 cases of coronavirus...
DOH/MB The Philippines broke again its record for the second highest number of new COVID-19 cases in a day after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 20,741 new infections on Saturday, Sept. 4. The country's running tally increased to 2,061,084 with 7.6 percent or 157,646 are active cases, the...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Saturday, Sept. 4, has reduced the prices of its reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for both swab and saliva testing. Philippine Red Cross PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator Richard Gordon said the new testing prices...
A group of Filipino physicians said on Saturday, Sept. 4, that an India-like surge is possible in the Philippines as hospitals all over the country continue to fill up amid the rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview over TeleRadyo, Philippine...
The Caloocan City government on Saturday conducts mass testing for COVID-19 in areas under granular lockdown. Swab testing teams tested close contacts and residents who have flu-like symptoms. (MAYOR OCA MALAPITAN FACEBOOK PAGE/ MANILA BULLETIN) “Isang mahalagang layunin ng pagpapatupad ng...
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines (AFP) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is considering administering booster doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines if 50 percent of the country’s target population has already been vaccinated. “So yung ibang eksperto po natin tinatalaga na at least 50...
Labor groups urged the national government to speed up the rollout of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program of workers. (JUAN CARLOS DE VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) In a joint statement, the Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines (MWAP) and the Institute for Occupational Health...
