The country registered the lowest rate in terms of its daily new confirmed Covid-19 cases per million people among five of its Southeast Asian neighbors, the Department of Health said on Monday, March 7. SHAH ALAM, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A medical worker takes a nasal swab sample from a man for...
More than a month after battling the Covid-19 variant Omicron, the country has returned to minimal risk-case classification, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, March 7. (KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said during the President's late...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,297 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, March 7, the first day of its implementation of its weekly case bulletin. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15 due to the...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed more than 1,000 road projects in Central Luzon under the 2021 Regular Infrastructure Program in Region 3. In a statement, the DPWH said among those completed out of the 1,321 road infrastructures were the rehabilitated 98.68-kilometer...
The Bureau of Customs has seized P769.67 million-worth of goods in less than two months, mostly illicit shipments of vehicles, cigarettes and other tobacco products, as well as illegal drugs, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. In a statement released by the DOF Monday, March 7, the Customs...
Senator Nancy Binay today (March 3) urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to focus on immediately shoring up the country’s thinning power reserves rather than busying itself on other concerns. “Rather than looking too far ahead, the energy department should look at the problem that’s staring...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Monday, March 7, welcomed the signing of the Executive Order (EO) no. 164 which would establish a nuclear energy program for the Philippines. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) "Nuclear power is envisioned to bring down the cost of electricity and to...
When it comes to the ongoing fuel crisis, the problem isn’t with the country's supply of fuel, but with its price, says Department of Energy (DOE) Undersecretary Gerardo Erguiza. The Fuel Crisis Ad Hoc Committee hearing with Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda (left) and Rep. Sharon Garin (right) (LIVE...
The newly signed Amended Foreign Investments Act (FIA) has created an Inter Agency Investment Promotion Coordination Committee (IIPCC), which will establish a comprehensive marketing plan in the promotion of investments into the country as the law opens up economic sectors to 100 percent foreign...
The Department of Finance (DOF) expects the country’s high growth in foreign direct investments (FDIs) to be sustained following the enactment of economic liberalization reform laws. In his DOF Economic Bulletin on Sunday, March 6, Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said the more than half...
DOH Nearly two years after the pandemic was officially declared, the Department of Health (DOH) is set to change its reporting of the Covid-19 situation starting Monday, March 7—with the case bulletin to be released weekly instead of the usual daily update. This shift in case reporting was amid...
Makati CBD skyline A total of 870 fresh Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Sunday, March 6, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Sunday marked the 5th day in a row that the country's daily number of Covid-19 cases remained less than 1,000. It was noted that the National Capital Region, Calabarzon,...
