Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar ordered all police commanders to launch a crackdown on all the illegal cockfighting operations, popularly known as tupada, in the country amid reports of the prevalence of the illegal gambling game despite the threat of the...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said on Wednesday, May 26, that he is going to use his subpoena power on those involved in the sale of vaccine and vaccination slots in order to expedite the ongoing investigation of the police. This, as investigators...
The Department of Health-Metro Manila Center for Health Development (DOH-MMCHD) approved a parking area of an Alabang mall as an additional coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination site for Pfizer-BioNTech and Sputnik V in Muntinlupa. The new vaccination site at Festival Mall covered parking area...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 25, approved on second reading the "Bayanihan to Arise as One" or Bayanihan 3 bill, a revised version that trimmed the proposed allocation for COVID-19 stimulus to P401 billion. House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN File photo/Alvin Kasiban)...
Around 3,000 Filipino adults are expected to participate in a local study on the safety and efficacy of mixing and matching China’s Sinovac vaccine with other coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jabs, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has disclosed. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP / FILE...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s office will be bringing its pandemic response programs to Puerto Princesa City in Palawan. OVP staff and volunteers pack medical supplies for their COVID-19 response project in Palawan (Photo from Vice President Leni Robredo’s Facebook page) Robredo said a team...
The barangays are the ‘weakest link’’ in the strict enforcement of mass gathering regulations amid the threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an official of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) admitted Tuesday night, May 25. In an interview over CNN Philippines, DILG...
South Sudan will return 72,000 doses of donated COVID-19 vaccines after concluding it cannot administer the jabs before they expire, a health ministry official told AFP on Tuesday. Arsene Mpiana / AFP PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN The country received 132,000 doses of the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine in...
Half of all US adults have now received full COVID-19 vaccines, the White House said Tuesday, marking another huge milestone in the fight against the pandemic. The first visitors enjoy breakfast at the Getty Museum on it's reopening day, May 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. VALERIE MACON / AFP "Now 50% of...
Home medical care of patients with asymptomatic to mild COVID-19 is now available through Makati Medical Center’s TeleMD and drive-thru consultation services. MakatiMed’s TeleMD consultation services are available for adults and pediatric patients (newborn to 18 years old) from 8 a.m. to 9...
Only medical frontliners were allowed to choose a COVID-19 vaccine brand, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, May 25, as he reminded the public to get inoculated with any vaccine brand or get infected while waiting. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
Senators on Tuesday, May 25, called on government to ramp up its efforts in inoculating Filipinos against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A senior citizen is inoculated with AstraZeneca's COVID -19 vaccine in Paranaque City on April 5, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senator Risa...
