The office of Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III was temporarily shut down on Jan. 4 after several employees tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) “Dahil po ilan sa mga empleyado ng tanggapan ng Punong Bayan ay nag positibo sa COVID-19 virus ngayong araw na ito, ang nasabing...
President Duterte has sought the understanding of the Roman Catholic faithful following the National Task Force's decision to suspend this year’s "traslacion" or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene. SUPER-SPREADER EVENT--A typical traslacion of the image of the Black Nazarene. (File...
As the Philippines again records thousands of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases daily, President Duterte on Tuesday, Jan. 4, pointed at the highly transmissible Omicron variant as the culprit for the decreased mobility of Filipinos. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular public...
President Duterte has directed village officials to restrict the movement of unvaccinated Filipinos in their respective jurisdictions. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his first “Talk to the People” public briefing of the year on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (RTVM Screenshot) In his taped...
Amid another surge of daily coronavirus cases, Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, Jan. 4, announced the roll out of her Swab Cab initiative, which aims to help the testing capabilities of hotspot areas. The Office of the Vice President’s mobile COVID-19 testing laboratory visits Marikina...
A total of 990 active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were recorded in Manila as of Tuesday, Jan. 4. Majority of infections are concentrated in two of the 16 Manila districts: Tondo with 464 active cases and Sampaloc with 121. A sign posted outside a drugstore along Taft Avenue in Manila...
The Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is expected to gradually “die out and disappear” as the highly transmissible Omicron variant takes over, a fellow of OCTA Research said. (File Photo / Unsplash) “If what happens here mimics what happened elsewhere in the world, is that in...
Infections brought about by Influenza and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variants Omicron and Delta have no distinct symptoms, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, Jan. 4. (Photo from DOH / MANIL BULLETIN) In a statement, DOH cited the World Health Organization (WHO) who said that the...
The Pasay City government recorded 152 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Monday, Jan. 3, bringing the city’s total number of confirmed cases to 365. Miko Llorca, head of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU), said Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano ordered the intensified contact...
Gen. Dionardo Carlos, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has tested positive for the coronavirus, he confirmed on Tuesday, Jan. 4. Carlos said that aside from him, the driver of his service van and a police aide also tested positive based on the swab test result which he himself ordered...
By Cherrylin Caacbay and Khriscielle Yalao Seven local government-run hospitals in Metro Manila are struggling with the increasing number of patients with COVID-19 with some temporarily halting new admissions. As of Jan. 3, the City of Manila recorded 766 active cases, 91,143 recoveries, and 1,775...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday appealed to the government to increase the vaccination capacity against COVID-19 across the country and boost its information drive as the Omicron variant now presents a new reality about the pandemic. Hontiveros said the Department of Health (DOH) should...
