League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) president and Marinduque Gov. Presbitero Velasco Jr. on Friday, Jan. 28, called for the stricter implementation of border control in the provinces due to the rapid surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Marinduque Governor and League of Provinces...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday pressed the creation of a center for disease control and a virology institute in the country which are both key to strengthening the government’s preparedness in responding to public health emergencies. Go, who heads the Senate Committee on Health and...
President Duterte is giving Filipinos "control" over what happens in his weekly late night public briefings dubbed "Talk to the People". President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the pre-taped "Talk to the People" public briefing on Dec. 13, 2021 (Malacañang photo) In the pre-recorded episode of...
Ensuring Delta remains under control CLINICAL MATTERS With few exceptions, the biggest one being China, most of the world has pretty much moved on from a COVID-19 elimination strategy. Zero COVID-19, which was the goal early in the pandemic, became a near-impossibility with the rise of the...
President Duterte has categorically said that Senator Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go does not control him. President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and Senator Bong Go (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this clarification during his pre-recorded "Talk to the People" public briefing on late Monday night, Nov....
Malacañang simply brushed aside on Thursday, Nov. 11 the claim of Senator Risa Hontiveros that the Duterte administration is now "feeling the heat" of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee's continuing investigation on the controversial Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. 20211111_145931 Presidential...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday said she believes President Duterte is now “feeling the heat” that is why he is now changing his stance on Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. as the Senate blue ribbon committee deepens its probe into the government’s questionable spending during the COVID-19...
Shanghai Disneyland (Xinhua) SHANGHAI, China -- Shanghai Disneyland and Disneytown will be temporarily closed from Monday to Tuesday for the purpose of epidemic prevention and control, said a notice released by the facility Sunday evening. The reopening of the facility will be announced once it is...
The country's pandemic task force has decided to place Romania on its red list while it placed 49 territories under the green list from October 16 to 31, 2021. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN In a statement, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of...
Malacañang said that the new testing and quarantine protocols that the government's pandemic task force has set for travelers coming from "green" and "yellow" countries will apply retroactively to travelers who may have arrived in the Philippines before the policy took effect. PIXABAY/ MANILA...
Policemen take part in an operation to retake control of the prison in Guayaquil where a riot left at least 116 inmates dead. (Ecuador´s National Police/AFP) GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador -- Police gained control of an Ecuador prison Thursday where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them...
Malacañang announced that Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, and Slovenia have been added to the so-called red list countries, prohibiting travelers from the said nations to enter the Philippines starting Sept. 19, 2021. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...