Seventy-five thousand doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine were donated by the Qatari government and Chinese vaccine manufacturer Sinovac Biotech to the Philippines on Wednesday, April 13. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (left) and Qatar Ambassador to the Philippines Ali Ibrahim Al-Malki shake hands...
The House Committee on Health chairperson has hailed the enactment of the radio and television franchise of Southern Luzon State University (SLSU), a move that according to her would help mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo from Quezon Rep. Helen Tan's office) “The franchise to...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the city has maintained its record of zero Covid-19 cases based on the report submitted by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) on Tuesday, April 12. Rubiano, however, urged residents to remain vigilant even as the city continues to record...
The government's pandemic task force has called for the implementation of the 10-Point Policy Agenda on Economic Recovery and urged all government agencies to ensure all related policies, measures, and programs are aligned with the Ten-Point Policy Agenda, Malacañang said. President Duterte...
The government's pandemic task force has decided to keep the National Capital Region (NCR) in its current Alert Level 1 status from April 16 to 30, 2022, Malacañang said. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Communications Secretary Martin Andanar made this announcement on Wednesday, April 13. In.a...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Wednesday, April 13 stressed how critical faster vaccine rollout is in accelerating the country’s return to normalcy following reports that some age groups and regions in the Philippines still have poor vaccine coverage. As chairman of the Senate Committee on...
Mechanical, unreasonable, and counter-productive. This is how the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (DepEd) described the latest directive of the Department of Education (DepEd) mandating the 100 percent onsite reporting of public school teachers in areas under Alert Level 1. (MANILA BULLETIN / FILE...
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....
House Deputy Speaker Mikee Romero sees wisdom in Malacañang's call for the establishment of strategic fuel reserves that would be used by the state to cushion future fuel price hikes. In fact, such proposal is very familiar to the 1-Pacman Party-list representative. House Deputy Speaker Mikee...
The Department of Health (DOH) has provided additional evidence to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the amendment of the emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow the administration of the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine to senior citizens and immunocompromised individuals and to include...
Presidential adviser for entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has urged Filipinos to get their booster shots to maintain the freedom of movement the country currently enjoys as millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine are also set to expire. Concepcion made the appeal on Tuesday as "we know the freedom we...
With the emergence of a new sublineage of Covid-19 variant Omicron called "XE", its faster transmissibility than the BA.2 subvariant was first noted, and an expert reminded that it does not correlate to a relatively more severe form of the virus. Omicron variant of COVID-19 "Hindi naman necessarily...
