The public were urged not to let their guard down despite the signs of a decrease in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the recent weeks following the reimposition of strict quarantine measures. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima was discharged from the Manila Doctors Hospital on Tuesday morning, April 27, after a three-day medical furlough. Senator Leila de Lima is discharged from the Manila Doctors' Hospital Tuesday, April 27, 2021 and is escorted to detention at the PNP Custodial Center...
GMA News reporter Tina Panganiban-Perez Using social media as a powerful tool, digital powerhouse GMA Public Affairs is encouraging more Filipinos to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and help curb its spread through informed choices by launching the online advocacy campaign...
Progressive lawmakers on Tuesday, April 27, slammed anew the Duterte administration for its supposed mismanagement of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the Philippines, with cases breaching the one million mark. President Duterte (left) speaks to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III...
People’s taxes are the funds that need to be made transparent and not the amounts of money being donated to community pantries, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Tuesday. “Those are private funds; not our taxes; that’s where we need transparency because that’s our...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday, April 27, that there is no travel ban for overseas Filipino workers in India. People stand in queue keeping social distance beside a COVID-19 awareness scarecrows placed by Chennai municipality at a market during a...
The Muntinlupa City government on Tuesday opened its second major vaccination hub at SM Center Muntinlupa in Brgy. Tunasan to serve more residents. Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi with City Administrator Allan Cachuela, City Councilors Allan Camilon and Ryan Bagatsing and SM Center officers at the...
The EcoWaste Coalition has underscored the need to separate waste materials contaminated by the new coronavirus from recyclable items as a way of protecting informal waste workers and recyclers from getting infected with the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Pawel Czerwinski/...
Metro Manila's intensive care unit (ICU) utilization rate has decreased to 71 percent following the reimposition of a stricter quarantine measure, according to Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III. (Photo by PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP / FILE PHOTO) In an interview over CNN...
More hospitals have been granted with compassionate special permit (CSP) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin in the treatment of their patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo from Pixabay) FDA Director General Eric Domingo told the...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday expressed elation over the news that former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada was released from the hospital after his bout with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Screenshot of former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada's video message (Twitter)...
Who says business giants and civil society groups can't see eye to eye when it comes to environmental concerns and sustainability goals? ON THE SAME PAGE--Environmental advocates from civil society and business groups called for stronger partnerships with the private sector and government to...