House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate and former Rep. Neri Colmenares on Saturday, August 21 urged the Commission on Audit and the Office of the Ombudsman to follow the money trail in the form of the tens of billions of pesos in government savings. Money Zarate and...
The Pateros municipal government on Saturday started accepting registration for vaccination of people from other local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila. It launched a QR code-based registration wherein non-Pateros residents can scan it to apply for a vaccination slot in the municipality....
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH A total of 16,694 additional cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was recorded on Saturday, Aug. 21, pushing the nationwide total count to 1,824,051 cases, the Department of Health (DOH) case bulletin showed. The nationwide total count is composed of 6.8 percent (123,935)...
DOH UNDERSECRETARY MARIA ROSARIO VERGEIRE The increasing number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country may continue in the coming days amid Metro Manila shifting to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), said the Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, Aug. 21. "Kapag...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that its consular offices (CO) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and all Temporary Off-Site Passport Services (TOPS) facilities will now resume operations after the region was downgraded to a less stringent quarantine classification. (FILE...
MARIA ROSARIO VERGEIRE The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, Aug. 21, said a community transmission of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant is likely present in the country but that more evidence is needed before it can be officially declared. "Base po dun sa nakukuha nating...
It has not even been a month yet former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV suffered another loss in the family-- this time, his older brother Antonio III who died of complications due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the age of 51. (Photos from Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Tindig Pilipinas...
President Duterte has asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to cut the government some slack as it faced challenges while battling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying they should release its report at least at the end of the year. President Duterte (ROEMARI LIMOSNERO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/ MANILA...
There is already a community transmission of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the country, the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) said Saturday, August 21. MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO “Ako professionally, and we at the Philippine Genome Center, while we do our analysis and we try to link the...
President Duterte has assured the public that the contingency fund of the Office of the President (OP) was not being used to fund the campaign of the administration's candidates for the 2022 elections. President Duterte (ACE MORANDANTE/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN) Duterte made the...
BIÑAN, Laguna - The local government unit has utilized the Blessed Sacrament Parish Church in South City Homes, Barangay Sto. Tomas as a site for mobile vaccination on Friday (August 20). The temporary inoculation site was part of the city government's Vax on Wheels program, which aims to cater...
The Philippines may reach 20,000 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases per day within the next two weeks as infections continue to rise in the country, OCTA Research said on Saturday, August 21. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "Ang katotohanan kahit ayaw nating sabihin ito, tataas ang numero......
