A Palace official has blamed the opposition forces for allegedly sowing fear in the coronavirus vaccination that threatens to derail the government's efforts to reach herd immunity. A Manila resident gets a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine during an inoculation program in Tondo on June 20, 2012....
Threatening to arrest people over their refusal to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 will not solve the hesitancy among Filipinos of receiving the jab, Senator Joel Villanueva said. A Manila resident receives a first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine during the inoculation drive at a school in...
The country must "triple" efforts to prevent the spread of a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus since it cannot afford a "disastrous" second wave of infections, President Duterte declared last Monday. Manila residents line up eager to get Pfizer coronavirus vaccines at a vaccination site...
The government has ample reserved funds to secure additional coronavirus vaccines needed by Filipinos, President Duterte said recently amid efforts to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on lives and livelihoods in the country. Manila residents wait for their turn to get their first dose of...
Rumors of a coup in the House of Representatives should be put to rest as President Duterte already told Leyte Rep. and House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez to leave the Speakership alone and set his sights on the vice presidential post instead. President Rodrigo Duterte and House Majority Leader...
President Duterte’s threat to arrest people who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus was just to emphasize the importance of receiving COVID-19 jabs to protect their health, his spokesman said on Tuesday, June 22. In his virtual media briefing, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque noted...
With only a year to go before wrapping up, the "Build, Build, Build" infrastructure modernization program of the Duterte administration has already more than 30,000 kilometers (km) of built and improved roads and bridges under its belt. DPWH Secretary Mark Villar (second from right) leads an...
“It’s very clear, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a “bs—t,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Tuesday. Roque merely repeated what President Duterte has stated on Monday night when the latter lashed out at the ICC for its announcement on a possible probe of the spate of...
An official of the Department of Health (DOH) has defended the continued use of face shields, saying that it provides added protection against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Dr. Alethea De Guzman of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said the combined use of face shields and...
A credible and massive information campaign about the national government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines is the best antidote to the vaccine hesitancy of most Filipinos, Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Tuesday. Hontiveros issued the reminder as she thumbed down President Duterte’s threat to...
American officials who engaged their Filipino counterparts in the negotiation on the retention of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) are “very happy” with the six-month extension given by President Duterte, Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C. Jose Manuel Romualdez said Tuesday....
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has dared investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to go to the Philippines to see for themselves the figures and reports about President Duterte's "war on drugs". Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Senate of the Philippines) Sotto claimed that...
