A local study held in 2020 showed that the Covid-19 pandemic had a psychological impact on the majority of Filipino healthcare workers. At least 70.74 percent of healthcare workers in the Philippines have had anxiety symptoms, while 50.97 percent had depressive symptoms because of Covid-19, said...
The Department of National Defense’s (DND) procurement of 17 units of Russian-made Mil Mi-17 heavy lift helicopters will push through even amid the latter’s ongoing military invasion in Ukraine. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (Photo courtesy of Department of National Defense) DND Secretary...
Nearly four million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine were donated by the United States (US) to the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of the US Embassy in the Philippines) It was the largest single-day shipment US made through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility to the...
The University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Office of the Chancellor Executive Staff on Monday, March 7, condemned the killing of Chad Booc, an activist and volunteer teacher for the Lumads. (Photo from Chad Booc's Facebook account) UP also mourned the death of Booc's fellow volunteer teacher...
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi refuted claims by his detractors that the city government already used a P1.2 billion standby loan from Landbank of the Philippines. In March 2021, the Muntinlupa City Council passed an ordinance authorizing Fresnedi to enter into a loan agreement with Landbank in...
WALA LANG General Pedro G. Dumol invited me to be on the Board of the National Electrification Administration when I was B.A. Professor at U.P. That was in the early 1970s when NEA, newly created by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was actively organizing cooperatives to bring electricity to...
An official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has asked priests not to allow themselves to be used for partisan politics. Fr. Jerome Secillano (Screenshot/Radio Veritas) "We should never allow ourselves to be used as tools for partisan politics," Fr. Jerome Secillano,...
"Chad is our hero." This was how the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman College of Engineering (COE) described its alumnus who served as a volunteer teacher for the Lumads. (Photo from Chad Booc's Facebook account) Chad Booc graduated cum laude from UP Diliman in 2017 with a degree of...
The new gymnastics center in Intramuros, Manila (PSC Images) The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) hopes to discover more world-class talents like Carlos Yulo as it welcomes the opening of the new gymnastics center in Intramuros, Manila on Saturday. PSC chairman Butch Ramirez said the Board...
The “most common manifestations” of patients who have had long Covid-19 include headache, fatigue, attention disorder, hair loss, and dyspnea, a health expert said on Friday, March 4. (Unsplash) Long Covid-19 is the persistence of signs and symptoms experienced by 10 percent to 20 percent of...
Contrary to allegations now circulating on social media, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) clarified Thursday, March 3, that the target of the recent combat operations in Maguing, Lanao del Sur were members of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) and Maute Group (MG), not the Moro Islamic Liberation...
With Metro Manila now under Alert Level 1, will there be in-person K-pop concerts soon? After two years, Metro Manila and other areas in the Philippines have been put under the lowest community quarantine status. Under Alert Level 1, in-person concerts can now be held in venues such as concert...
