The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division has denied the petition for disqualification filed by the group Pudno Nga Ilokano against presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the last remaining disqualification case pending against him at the division level. Presidential...
There has been no significant increase in Covid-19 cases in any part of the country during the observance of holy week, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, April 19. Locals flock to Balaan Bukid (Holy Mountain) in Jordan town, Guimaras province Friday, April 15. Unlike in the past, the...
Masking has been the keen deterrent since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic two years ago to prevent the disease from further spreading but since cases have not been rising in the past months, some may have been complacent and now the country's health department is looking at a six-digit jump in...
The Department of Health (DOH) is seeing a gradual increase of Covid-19 cases in 14 areas under Alert Level 1. (Jansen Romero / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Health Secretary Francisco Duque III made the statement at the summary of his report during the President's pre-recorded public address on...
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it has zero case so far. PNP chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said that based on the latest data of their Health Service, there is neither new nor active case in the PNP as of Tuesday, April 12....
FAIRFAX - After a high-profile libel case in London, actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard are headed back to court Monday, this time in the United States, for a blockbuster defamation case revolving about allegations of spousal abuse. The case pitting the 58-year-old Depp against Heard,...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan will move away from a zero-Covid policy and instead focus on tackling the most severe infections in an effort to live with the coronavirus, its health minister said Thursday. The decision leaves China -- and its financial hub Hong Kong -- as the only major economy...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez announced that 11 barangays in the city are now free from Covid-19 based on the report by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) and the City Health Office (CHO) on Wednesday, April 6. Olivarez said the remaining communities with Covid-19 cases are...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said for the 15th straight day, the city’s lone public hospital, the Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH) has recorded zero Covid-19 admission. According to Rubiano, PCGH officer-in-charge Dr. Jhon Victor De Gracia, reported for the past 15 straight days, the...
Nothing is certain, according to an official of the Department of Health (DOH), as the possibility of having another spike in Covid-19 cases is always present. Shoppers flock to bargain stores along Ilaya Street in Divisoria, Binondo, Manila, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) In a press...
Are we endemic yet? CLINICAL MATTERS Six hundred thousand new Covid-19 cases in one day in South Korea! Nearly 300,000 in Germany! Almost 200,000 in Vietnam! These numbers almost sound made up. Unimaginable. While many people were apoplectic at the nearly 39,000 cases we had in January 2022, the...
Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Thursday, March 24, called for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to file a criminal case against former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for failing to pay his family’s P203-billion estate tax debt. 1Sambayan lead convenor Antonio...
