Fully vaccinated travelers from the Philippines will still be required to undergo 14-day quarantine when they arrive in South Korea due to concerns about the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Korea’s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced Tuesday that...
2021 Liveable Cities Lab and Globe Resilient Health Systems panelists Information and communications technology (ICT) plays a crucial role in fighting COVID-19 in the country. By leveraging ICT, local government units (LGUs), and national agencies are able to give Filipinos access to healthcare,...
Malacañang announced on Tuesday, June 29, its newest initiative, the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) 2021-2022, to improve access to employment and training opportunities and respond to the challenges in the labor market in the new normal. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said that...
(PIXABAY) Independent research group OCTA reiterated its call to the national and local governments, as well as the private sector and communities, to prepare for the possible impact of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the country. The Delta variant has...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday urged the government to prioritize the procurement and use of vaccines that have high levels of efficacy now that the country has more access to different brands of vaccines. Drilon lamented that Filipinos are being short-changed when it comes to...
The vaccine recipient in the viral video had asked the local government unit (LGU) of Makati City not to give the volunteer nurse severe punishment for not being able to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Abigail "Abby" Binay said on Tuesday (June 29). The mayor said that the nurse and the...
Department of Health Undersecretary and treatment czar Leopoldo Vega on Tuesday, June 29, said no local cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Delta variant have been detected in the country so far. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Vega said all 17 cases of Delta variant reported in the country were...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday, June 29, called on the government's pandemic task force to impose sanctions on health workers and other vaccinators involved in the misadministration of coronavirus vaccines to the public, which he said, also happens in Quezon City and "all over" the...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has raised to eight to 10 million the national government's target vaccine doses to be administered for the month of July. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. gives updates on the immunization program during President Duterte's public address on June 28, 2021....
Education, not threats, is what will solve the vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos, a youth group told President Rodrigo Duterte. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement Monday night, June 28, Juan Health PH, condemned Duterte's threat to arrest Filipinos who refuse to get inoculated against...
People form a line leading to a community pantry in Sta. Mesa, Manila on April 30, 2021 (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin/File Photo) The National Capital Region (NCR) has yet to return to its pre-surge level despite the continuous decline in its daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. DOH...
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has instructed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to help in the transportation of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines in remote and far-flung areas. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (Photo courtesy of SND Delfin Lorenzana Facebook page) Lorenzana,...
