Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco announced Friday that the city has the lowest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) growth rate, Average Daily Attack Rate (ADAR), and reproduction rate. In a Facebook post, Tiangco shared a photo from independent research group OCTA showing COVID-19 data of all the local...
HARBIN, China -- The virus strain behind the latest COVID-19 infections in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has been identified as the Delta variant, local authorities said Friday. A medical worker collects swab sample from a woman for nucleic acid testing in Harbin,...
The government's pandemic task force has decided to relax some of the guidelines on the pilot implementation of Alert Levels System for COVID-19 (coronavirus) Response in the National Capital Region (NCR), allowing more people to go out and more activities to take place in the pilot area. Manila...
The Philippines will now be counting positive results from rapid antigen tests on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement Friday, Sept. 24 following a meeting by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of...
MARK BALMORES/MANILA BULLETIN The increase in the number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Metro Manila seemed to be slowing down, however, the public should not be complacent over this development, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, Sept. 24. “We have observed over the...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia has cancelled its "Festival of the Dead" -- an annual holiday where the Buddhist faithful pay respects to deceased relatives -- after a coronavirus outbreak among monks in the capital. Worshippers around Cambodia visit pagodas during the two-week Pchum Ben...
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is about to hit a milestone with half of the adult population fully inoculated. Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Xinhua) According to data released by the Department of Health, 74.1 percent of Australians aged 16 and older have received at...
A union of teachers and education workers on Friday, Sept. 24 denounced the Department of Education (DepEd) for “not fulfilling its promise to pay” overtime work rendered by public school teachers from June to October last year. Teachers sorting out printed modules to be distributed to students...
Local government units (LGUs) should not require the public to present their voter’s identification cards (ID) before providing essential services like medical assistance or cash aid nor is it needed to register for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program, the Department of the...
The Pasig City local government on Friday ramped up its COVID-19 vaccination efforts as it aimed to inoculate more than 1,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Pasig City Jail. (Photo from Mayor Vico Sotto's Facebook) According to Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto, the local government unit (LGU)...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The reproduction number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Metro Manila further decreased to 0.97 from 0.99, independent research group OCTA said on Friday, Sept. 24. "The NCR had a reproduction number of 0.97 and growth rate of - 22 percent," OCTA Research fellow Dr....
IMUS, Cavite - The city government opened a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination site at Robinson's Place Imus on Wednesday (September 22). On its first day of operation, the vaccination site inoculated economic frontliners, from small business owners to workers of big enterprises. In a...
