BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara A recent Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report showed an alarming increase in girls getting pregnant during their formative years. The data indicates that births to mothers aged 10 to 14 years old have increased every year since 2016 even while the overall...
THE Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue. The increasing trend of dengue cases in the Philippines is “quite alarming,” the Department of Health (DOH) said. From January to June, the DOH already recorded 51,622 dengue cases nationwide. During the same period last year, there were only...
President Duterte has said that the country's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation is "becoming more alarming every day". President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte gave this description of the situation after the Department of Health (DOH) recorded on Monday, Jan. 10 a new...
Senatorial aspirant and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel 'Chel' Diokno on Thursday, November 4, sounded the alarm on the rising unemployment rate in the country, saying that ramping up vaccination will allow people to return to work. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (FACEBOOK / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
Malacañang expressed alarm over the World Bank report that showed that 80 percent of Filipino students do not know what they should know based on their current academic level. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
Pasig City’s COVID numbers are on a downward trend but remain “alarming,” Mayor Vico Sotto said on Wednesday. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto (Pasig City PIO / MANILA BULLETIN) In his COVID summary report on May 5, Sotto said Pasig has 932 active cases which means one in every 1,000 individuals...
