DAVAO CITY – In a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, Region 13 (Caraga region) has established border checkpoints and required travelers from Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) to show some documents to be granted entry to the region. The Department of Health (DOH) had...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Sunday, July 25 denied he criticized the Duterte administration for underspending the funds under the "Bayanihan" laws which Congress rushed to pass to augment the government's COVID-19 response programs. Lacson made a clarification after he and Senate President...
Remembering the lack of hospital beds and health personnel during the COVID-19 surge in the country last March, the Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Sunday, July 25, urged the government to improve hospital capacity amid the threat of the Delta variant in the country. “Ayaw natin mangyari...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Independent research group OCTA on Sunday, July 25, flagged Cagayan de Oro and Mariveles, Bataan as "critical risk" areas for new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections. In its July 18-24 monitoring report, OCTA said that Cagayan de Oro had a "very high" increase in...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion urged the government to make "bold moves" like limiting the movement of the unvaccinated population to prevent the further spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go...
As longer curfew hours will be implemented in Metro Manila tonight, July 25, the Philippine National Police (PNP) urged the public to cooperate by observing the rules and respecting the people who would enforce the stricter measures against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). PNP chief Gen....
President Duterte has asked Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr. to accommodate the "desperate calls" of some local government units (LGUs) for additional coronavirus (COVID-19) cases due to the surge of cases in different areas in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte (MANILA BULLETIN/ROBINSON...
A good balancing act between maintaining the country’s economic recovery and protecting Filipinos against the dreaded Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez speaks during President Duterte's pre-recorded public briefing on Saturday, July 24, 2021....
In a now-viral post, a physician shared from her experience how different coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines offer the same protection. (Photo from Dr. Anne Gabriel-Chan) To encourage the public to get vaccinated, Dr. Anne Gabriel-Chan of the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center shared...
There are now an additional 6,715 fully vaccinated individuals after Vice President Leni Robredo’s NagaVax Express finished administering all of Naga City’s allocated single-dose Janssen vaccines in two days. Vice President Leni Robredo oversees the vaccination process at the Nagavax Express on...
More than a year of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, various women's groups launched a "survival" cookbook featuring peasant women and mothers' recipes of coping up with dwindling household incomes and rising food prices. (Photo from Amihan) The Amihan National Federation of Peasant...
“Together, we shall fight this pandemic with the same fervor as our campaign against illegal drugs, criminality, insurgency, and corruption in high places and entrenched parochial interests." This was what President Duterte vowed in his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year—to...
