Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco has warned his constituents against the sudden unexpected rise in the city's new COVID-19 cases. Tiangco reminded the city residents not to let their guards down against the pandemic following an alarming new COVID-19 infections reported for the past several days....
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has condemned in the strongest terms the reported illegal selling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines which could place the country's immunization program in jeopardy. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. attends President Duterte's "Talk to the Nation" address on May...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto announced on Friday that the city government launched its new IT system integrating all city health centers' medical records into one database. (Photo from Mayor Vico Sotto Facebook) The improvement aims to ease the burden of manually searching the medical records of any...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Saturday, July 3, police commanders in Batangas to set up Police Assistance Desks in the evacuation centers for Taal Volcano evacuees to ensure security and health safety amid the threat of the coronavirus...
(BluePrint.PH) Filipinos are reacting more positively to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines after the government started its vaccination rollout, as shown in Facebook posts reflecting "love" reactions in June 2021. Based on a big data analysis conducted by data analysis and public relations...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s Swab Cab, a mobile antigen testing program, has arrived in her hometown of Naga City to help its local government unit to curb rising coronavirus cases. Vice President Leni Robredo’s Swab Cab project arrives in Naga City. (VP Leni Robredo/Facebook) On her personal...
The threat posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become an additional burden to thousands of people in Batangas who fled their homes following the phreatomagmatic (magma and steam-driven) eruption of Taal Volcano. Residents of Laurel, Batangas seek temporary shelter at Ticub...
Song Joong-ki (Instagram) Korean actor Song Joong-ki is now under self-quarantine after his acquaintance tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As a result, the 35-year-old star of the drama “Vincenzo” stopped filming the movie “Bogota” as well as the entire...
A total of 68 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients have already been recruited to participate in a randomized controlled clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta) extract as an adjunctive coronavirus treatment for mild to moderate cases. Tawa-tawa (Manila Bulletin...
Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Jennifer Hudson will star at a major concert in Central Park this summer to mark New York's emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic, officials announced Thursday. Mayor Bill de Blasio had last month announced the concert, set for August, billing it as a way to...
A police lieutenant assigned in Southern Leyte has died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), adding to the growing list of police personnel who succumbed to the respiratory ailment, the Philippine National Police (PNP) disclosed Friday, July 2. Latest figures on the COVID-19 situation in the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said voters can vote with confidence in the May 2022 polls as voting centers are designed to be coronavirus disease (COVID-19) safe. Comelec/MB "We have designed our polling precincts precisely to be COVID safe which means we wil be prioritizing the use of...
