With less than a week to go before the May 9 elections, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 Chief Implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. urged the unvaccinated voters to get inoculated and have their booster shots to keep the polls safe and free from Covid-19. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr....
A total of 1,481,683 individuals were inoculated with the vaccine against Covid-19 as the national government stepped up the drive through the house-to-house vaccination, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday night, May 2. In a briefing with...
Here are some reminders CLINICAL MATTERS With only one week left until the May 9 election, campaigns are in overdrive with their final pushes and rallies. While candidates look favorably upon huge crowds of people coming out to support them, healthcare workers look on in horror as people are packed...
In front of the top officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) learners in Camiguin shared their experiences with the distance learning setup in the last two years. (Photo from DepEd) During a press conference, DepEd Executive Committee (Execom) members initiated a discussion with the...
The government's pandemic task force has decided to place more areas under Alert Level 1 -- the least strict among all alert level classifications -- despite the threat of a surge in Covid-19 cases after the elections, Malacañang said on May 2. President Duterte meets key members of the...
New Covid-19 cases in the country are now lower than the numbers before the Omicron surge occurred, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, May 2. Shoppers flock to bargain stores along Ilaya Street in Divisoria, Binondo, Manila, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) Health Undersecretary...
In a continued effort to vaccinate more people against Covid-19, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, May 2, that they are discussing a possible move to put vaccination sites near polling precincts on election day on May 9. MB file photo "Pinag-uusapan itong paglalagay ng vaccination...
The reported increase in Covid-19 cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) is not considered significant by the Department of Health (DOH) to cause alarm to the public. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a press briefing on Monday, May 2, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that this...
Despite the “slight increase” in Metro Manila’s Covid-19 growth rate, a health reform advocate said that the occurrence of another Covid-19 surge before the May 2022 polls remains less likely. (Unsplash) Health reform advocate and former special adviser of the National Task Force (NTF)...
Efficient, accurate, and reliable. In the league of air superiority, drones have once again exemplified its prowess not in the battlefield, but in the field of transportation through delivering life-saving interventions like vaccines and medicines, cutting travel time by more than half. Other than...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) Metro Manila had an uptick in Covid-19 cases as fresh cases increased by 7 percent over the past week, the OCTA Research said in its latest monitoring on Sunday, May 1. “The NCR (National Capital Region) had a one week growth rate of 7 percent as the seven-day average...
To give way to the upcoming national and local elections, all Covid-19 vaccination sites in Valenzuela City will be closed from May 8 to 10, the local government announced on Sunday, May 1. The new schedule for individuals who are supposed to get jabbed on May 8 will be on May 11, while those...
