SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia – Australia's largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown Saturday to contain a sudden coronavirus surge and Russia's Saint Petersburg announced a record death toll, as several European nations lifted restrictions despite the spread of the highly contagious Delta...
The entry ban on travelers from India and six countries will be enforced until mid-July to prevent the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant, Malacañang announced Tuesday. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced the extension of the travel restrictions...
The threat of the Delta coronavirus variant is the "monkey wrench" that prevents the government from allowing the resumption of face-to-face classes in the country, according to President Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) And given such virus threat, the President has...
The Delta variant is the most transmissible yet CLINICAL MATTERS Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana With the accelerating rollout of vaccination programs worldwide, things were looking up for a pandemic-weary world in March 2021. After a year of living in fear of COVID-19, the end was in sight. It looked...
The government will look into the proposed inclusion of Indonesia on the list of countries with travel restrictions to the country to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Delta strain of the coronavirus disease. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, the...
Malacañang assured the public that the Chinese-made Sinovac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine was still effective against the more contagious and deadlier Delta variant of the disease just like other brands in the country's inventory. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a vial of coronavirus...
The Philippines received an additional one million doses of Sinovac vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Monday morning, June 28, amid mounting calls to stop the procurement of the Chinese brand and start prioritizing Western brands which are supposedly more effective against the...
Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng A) Just in case you’ve been hiding under a stone, or burying your head underground, one of the more amusing news of the week that just passed was the ‘We don’t need it anymore… oh yes, we still need it’ flip-flopping on...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a giant shadow on the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. With less than a month left, anxiety over the possibility that foreign athletes and journalists could be carriers of the emerging deadly Delta variant has been added to the hosts’ long list of...
FILE PHOTO The country has so far not yet recorded any local case of the Delta coronavirus variant, an official of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) said on Saturday, June 26. Based on the genomic biosurveillance, the country still has 17 cases of the Delta variant and all of them were “incoming...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the city government will strictly monitor arriving “balikbayans” and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who may be possible carriers of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Rubiano said since the city is near the airport, she already...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) Hospitals in the country will be "significantly" strained if the Delta coronavirus variant spreads in the communities, a member of the OCTA Research group warned on Thursday, June 24. The Delta variant is a combination of the "worse characteristics of the variants that...
