Filipino golfer Yuka Saso earned praises from senators Monday, June 7, after her historic win in the 76th US Women's Open. Yuka Saso Saso, 19 years old, is the first Filipino and the youngest ever to win the US Women’s Open golf championship held in San Franciso. Senate President Pro Tempore...
The number of infections from Metro Manila now only accounts to about 13 percent of the country’s total number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday, June 7. A soldier wearing a face mask holds on his weapon as he guards an empty street following the...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, June 7, has reminded the public that parties and other forms of mass gatherings are prohibited amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire reminded local government units...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, June 7, appealed to the authorities to consider relaxing COVID-19 testing and quarantine rules for foreign and local tourists who have been fully vaccinated. Passengers show their travel documents to authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano vowed on Monday (June 7) that the local government would fully-assist in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination drive and to heighten its information campaign to address apprehensions or doubts about COVID-19 vaccines in the city. Rubiano stressed the...
National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar Vince Dizon said on Monday, June 7, all employees who need to go out for work are part of the A4 priority group. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Dizon revealed this as he hailed the expansion of priority vaccination of essential...
The Taguig City Vaccination Task Force has opened the registration for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination for the A4 priority group, or essential workers. It said it has received the guidelines for the vaccination of the A4 category, “defined as all individuals who are required to go out...
One hundred thousand doses of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia will be delivered to the country on Tuesday, June 8, according to vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 (Photo courtesy of OPAPP)...
The national government has officially started the vaccine roll-out of the A4 priority sector or the economic and government frontliners on Monday, June 7, at SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. speaks at the symbolic rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program for A4...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said there should be an international agreement to have a standard certificate so it will not be difficult for countries to authenticate coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination cards. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Roque made...
The country has a reached a "major milestone" in the fight against the pandemic with the start of the mass vaccination, particularly the essential workers in the public and private sectors, President Duterte declared Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a vial of coronavirus vaccine developed by...
The rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations among teens highlights the importance of vaccination, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Brianna Banuelos (L), 12, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles,...
