Of Trees and Forest Former Senate President Manny Villar As we near the halfway mark of the year, it has become increasingly clear that ending the COVID-19 pandemic is dependent on our capacity to vaccinate our people. Of course, we should continue to strictly implement health protocols—wear...
A full month of General Community Quarantine (GCQ) would be completed by June 15 in the National Capital Region-plus bubble area following President Duterte’s announcement on June 1. Recall that Metro Manila and the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite were placed on Enhanced Community...
Vice President Leni Robredo must face the realities of lagging behind survey results when she finally decides on her political plans for next year. Robredo said during her guesting on the weekly online show #ChooseDay Tuesday on June 1 that she has to contend with the realities that not many people...
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...
