Score one for the anti-vaxxers. Iloilo City 1st district Rep. Janette Garin (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) That's how Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin described on Tuesday, Aug. 30 the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd)'s announcement would no longer require students and personnel of...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila decreased by 19 percent as compared to the number reported during the previous week, according to the latest monitoring of the OCTA Research Group. In an update shared on Twitter, OCTA...
The pandemic has produced modern-day heroes in the form of frontliners, those who have sacrificed time, comfort, and even their health to be of service to others. At the height of the Covid crisis, medical frontliners were literally in front of the battle. While the rest of the population stayed...
An infectious disease expert agreed on Monday, Aug. 29 with the Department of Health's (DOH) projection that the country could record more than 9,000 Covid-19 cases daily by the end of September. Dr. Rontgene M. Solante (Screenshot taken from the Facebook Live of ‘Laging Handa’) Dr. Rontgene...
BAGUIO CITY – The Summer Capital is still classified as ‘low risk’ in terms of Covid-19 infections, but Mayor Benjamin Magalong is expecting an increase in active cases in the coming weeks due to face-to-face classes. Magalong reiterated his earlier warning that an increase in Covid-19 cases...
DAVAO CITY – The city government will no longer resort to putting establishments under lockdown to control the transmission of infections in the event of another Covid-19 surge, an official of the Davao City Task Force on Covid-19 said. Dr. Michelle Schlosser, task force spokesperson, reiterated...
Two more members of K-pop boy band Seventeen tested positive for Covid-19 while on their “Be The Sun” world tour in the US. “We would like to provide you with some information regarding Covid-19 diagnosis of Seventeen members Joshua and Hoshi and their future activities,” Pledis...
President Marcos has a major issue with this swamp grass widely cultivated as a source of food in the Philippines and in Asia—and so did his father before him when the latter started his term as president 57 years ago AGRICULTURAL IMMERSION FM taking to the fields to learn new methods in planting...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The daily Covid-19 cases in the Philippines may drop to 1,000 by mid-September and around 500 by month’s end, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said Sunday, Aug. 28. In an update shared on Twitter, David said that the number of new Covid-19...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The number of Covid-19 cases per day in Metro Manila could decrease to 600 by end of September as the region’s reproduction number dropped to less than 1 over the past week, said the independent research group OCTA. In an update shared on Twitter...
A House leader has asked his congressman-colleagues to realign funds to the government’s "libreng sakay" or free ride program in order to keep it going beyond 2022. (Photo from DOTr) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte made this appeal at the start of the House Committee on...
The Procurement Service-Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) did not withhold income taxes amounting to P3.268 billion after procuring P11.806 billion in Covid-19-related items from non-resident foreign corporations (NRFCs), thus resulting in loss of revenue on the part of the national...
