The P.3 variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) first found in the Philippines, has been named "Theta" by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) announced on Tuesday, June 1. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) On Monday, WHO announced that it will be using Greek...
The country's health frontliners attending to coronavirus patients will continue to receive a special risk allowance from the government. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) President Duterte has signed Administrative Order No. 42 authorizing the continued grant of COVID-19 Special...
The government is hoping the coronavirus vaccination drive will pick up as additional vaccines are expected to arrive in the country. Government frontliners receive Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines at the vaccination hub in Taguig City on May 04, 2021 (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) Presidential...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday, June 1, appealed to his colleagues in Congress to convene the joint oversight committee to assess the government's COVID-19 vaccination program. Senator Joel Villanueva (Senate of the Philippines/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Villanueva stressed the importance of...
As more Filipinos get inoculated against the coronavirus, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion is calling for "greater mobility" for vaccine recipients in the country. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Taguig City resident at a vaccination bus parked in...
As ordered by Malacañang, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has extended its travel ban covering seven Asian and Middle East countries hit by the highly contagious Indian coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) These countries are india,...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) announced 5,177 more COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, June 1. This is the second straight day that the country logged below 7,000 cases. The new cases brought the country’s caseload to 1,235,467. Of the total, 53,203 are active cases or currently ill patients....
National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon on Tuesday, June 1, said the AstraZeneca jabs set to expire on June 30 have already been administered as first doses. Las Pinas City residents line up to be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines at SM Southmall (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN)...
A Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) official on Tuesday, June 1, called on the concerned local government units (LGUs) to instill the necessary measures to ensure that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are kept in storage facilities with uninterrupted power supply or with...
(Manila Bulletin/ File Photo) The Department of Health (DOH) assured that the different COVID-19 vaccine storage facilities nationwide are ready amid the possibility of rotational power interruptions in some parts of Luzon. In a statement on Tuesday, June 1, the DOH said necessary steps were...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. announced on Monday night, May 31, that the country has the highest vaccine "throughput" in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. (File photo) At a rate of at least 150,000 doses being administered daily, Galvez said the...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Tuesday, June 1, signed a joint memorandum circular with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Philippine National Police (PNP) to clarify the guidelines on the implementation of COVID-19 safety measures and the liabilities of violators...
