Opposition Rep. Ferdinand Gaite of Bayan Muna slammed on Monday, May 31, the PDP-Laban’s resolution to convince President Rodrigo Duterte to run for vice president and choose his candidate for president. Gaite also chided the ruling party for calling for additional funding for the controversial...
The country will receive another 50,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia on Sunday night, May 30, the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 disclosed. The initial batch of 15,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines that arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City on May 1,...
The national government has inaugurated a referral hospital for COVID-19 patients in Bocaue, Bulacan to strengthen the province's response in containing the spread of the virus. NTF against COVID-19 The Bocaue General Hospital, also known as Joni Villanueva Memorial Hospital, was launched Friday by...
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat has welcomed the inclusion of frontline tourism workers in in the A1 priority group of the national vaccination program. DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) This means there would be no more waiting for...
Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. is among the more controversial personalities of this administration, but Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic czar Edison "Bong" Nebrija believes in the man's abilities, 100 percent. MMDA traffic czar Edison Nebrija (left) and NTF-ELCAC spokesperson,...
The National Task Force (NTF) will leave to health experts the decision on whether or not to approve the proposal by a group of businessmen allowing senior citizens who were inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to dine in restaurants. NTF spokesperson Restituto Padilla Jr. said the...
Top officials of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 explored areas of cooperation with representatives of 21 business firms in the United States on Wednesday, May 26, to help the country improve its pandemic response and jumpstart the nation's economic recovery. In a statement, the NTF...
The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 expressed optimism on Wednesday, May 26, that the country will be able to consume all eight million vaccines in its inventory before they get expired as vaccine hesitancy continues to affect the immunization program in parts of the world. "May...
The sudden increase of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Palawan may have been attributed to the mass gathering events that were not monitored and the lack of testing by the local government unit (LGU), an official of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 disclosed Wednesday, May 26....
Nine more members of the House of Representatives have filed a bill for the criminalization of red-tagging. House of Representatives plenary 2 The lawmakers -- Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, La Union Rep. Pablo Ortega as well as Makabayan bloc congressmen Bayan...
Majority of the country’s local government units (LGUs) have provided support to the national government’s efforts to end the more than five decades of communist insurgency in the country by declaring the group as persona non grata in their respective localities, an official of the Department...
To further speed up the immunization program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the national government is targeting to open all 3,000 vaccination sites to the public for 24 hours a day and seven days a week, a task force official disclosed Sunday, May 23. "Nakatutok na tayo dyan. Ang...
