The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has reported an increase in the average rate offer in the electricity retail market space at P4.05 per kilowatt hour (kWh) as of April this year; from a leaner average of P3.63 per kWh weighted average as of its monitoring report in 2021. The electricity...
A health reform advocate, on Saturday, July 2, challenged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to increase the country’s Covid-19 booster rate to at least 70 million within the first 100 days of his administration. File photo (AFP/Manila Bulletin) “Sa first 100 days ni President...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 positivity rates in Metro Manila and nine other areas continued to exceed the 5 percent threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the latest monitoring of the OCTA Research Group. In an update shared on Twitter on July 1, OCTA fellow...
Outgoing Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Sec. Eduardo Año lauded on Wednesday, June 29, the Philippine National Police (PNP) for its contribution in reducing the crime rate across the country. Año attributed the decline in crime to the aggressive campaign against illegal...
The evident increase in the country’s Covid-19 cases is not yet a cause for “real alarm” but the public should still be vigilant against the increasing transmission of the virus, a health expert said on Monday, June 27. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP) The Department of Health (DOH) recently placed five...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 positivity rates in Metro Manila and eight other provinces in the country have continued to increase over the past week, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said on Monday, June 27. David, in an update shared on Twitter, showed that as of June 25, the Covid...
DAVAO CITY – The local task force on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has urged unvaccinated and individuals eligible for boosters here to get inoculated to protect themselves from transmission and severity of the disease as it reported that the positivity rate has increased to three percent...
Compared to the recorded number of Covid-19 cases from May 30 to June 5, the average daily rate from June 6 to 12 is 30.4 percent higher. Omicron variant of COVID-19 (MB FILE PHOTO) This was according to the weekly Covid-19 data of the country released by the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday,...
GROCERY store workers rest in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – The unemployment rate in Western Visayas or Region 6 dropped as restrictions from the Covid-19 pandemic ease and businesses are returning to more normal operations. Data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)...
The country's unemployment fell to 5.7 percent in April, nearing the 5.3 percent pre-COVID level, on continued reopening of the domestic economy, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. The April performance was also a significant improvement from 8.7 percent a year ago and...
An uptick in Metro Manila’s Covid-19 positivity rate was observed by independent group OCTA Research on Thursday evening, June 9. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) “The situation in the National Capital Region (NCR) has become more concerning as the positivity rate, at 1.5 percent a week ago,...
The average accuracy rate of vote-counting machines (VCMs) on all audited positions from president down to mayor is at 99.95825 percent so far, according to the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec’s) Random Manual Audit (RMA) of votes in the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB In its advisory, the running...
