The national government has secured the delivery of an additional 813,150 doses of Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Wednesday night, August 11. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. presents updates on COVID-19 vaccination program on July 12, 2021. (Screenshot courtesy of RTVM...
(The sign says it all at the Adventist Medical Center in Pasay City in this photo taken Tuesday, August 10, 2021, as the Department of Health (DOH) also said extending the imposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) remains a possibility amid the rising number of coronavirus disease...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III will be calling for a public hearing on the government's plan to use vaccine passports as part of the country's travel and health protocols amid the persisting COVID-19 pandemic. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III leads on July 26, 2021 the opening of the...
Two more hospitals in Metro Manila said their coronavirus (COVID-19) wards have hit full capacity. (Unsplash) Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City on Tuesday night, Aug. 10, announced that it has reached full bed capacity for COVID-19 cases in emergency room, intensive care unit (ICU), and wards....
Vice President Leni Robredo’s Vaccine Express project will kick off in Quezon City on Thursday, August 12, to ramp up coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination in the city. A tricycle driver takes a photo of a woman at the Vaccine Express in Manila to record her getting her second dose of the...
What started as a sincere announcement on the existence of “tiny bubbles” within Metro Manila ended with a deluge of jokes and memes on social media—mostly in reference to a popular song and dance of the same title in the late 1960s. But Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo...
Twelve out of 17 villages on Talim Island in Binangonan, Rizal have recorded zero death due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). PHOTO VIA NEL ANDRADE/ MANILA BULLETIN Data from the Binangonan Municipal Health Office (BMHO) which was posted by the Municipal Government on its Facebook page, also...
EXO’s Xiumin (left) and musical actor Choi Jae-rim are positive for COVID-19 (Hadestown Korea) The opening of the Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown” in Korea has been postponed after 23 actors and staff tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a notice issued on Aug. 10,...
Some social media users took to social media to express worry about the non-inclusion of the delivery of Russian vaccine Sputnik V this month, saying some of them have yet to receive their second dose. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (left) and Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Marat Pavlov...
Mom recounts what happened for the whole month of July With COVID-19 still out there with different and more dangerous variants, and with findings that these latest variants can infect children as well, more and more individuals are coming out to share their personal experiences with the dreaded...
Senior citizens in Makati City receive their medicines right at their doorstep, and they are free! That’s how the local government unit (LGU) treats its seniors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photos courtesy of Bob Reyes and Makati City LGU) In a now-viral Facebook post by Robert “Bob” Reyes,...
(OCTA RESEARCH) Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy rates in nine cities in Luzon and Visayas have already reached "critical" levels due to rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, OCTA Research's latest monitoring report on Tuesday, Aug. 10, showed. The areas that...
