Vice President Leni Robredo has agreed that Filipino students should not be allowed back to school now because of the more transmissible and contagious Delta variant. (Vice President Leni Robredo/Facebook) Robredo said students had a “missed opportunity” of attending face-to-face classes when...
The highly transmissible Delta variant is overtaking other coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variants in the Philippines, the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) reported Thursday, Sept. 2. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) "In the beginning of months of April to May the vast majority of sequence of SARS-CoV...
The Senate decided on Wednesday, September 1, to further trim the number of employees who would be allowed to physically report for work due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in their ranks. Senate of the Philippines' plenary hall (Senate PRIB) Senate President Vicente Sotto III, during...
The national government is 'still on track" as far as its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) containment plan is concerned, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, Sept. 1. The COVID-19 case projections presented by Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque during...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III has issued an executive order listing the guidelines on the handling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients detected to have the highly contagious Delta variant. In the latest report of the Department of Health (DOH), seven Delta variant cases were...
The travel restrictions being imposed on passengers coming from 10 countries that began as a precautionary measure against the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been extended up to Sept. 5, 2021. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (Screenshot from Facebook live) In a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Tuesday, Aug.31, that the Delta variant is already the most dominant version of the coronavirus circulating in the Philippines. World Health Organization Representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN) “I already...
Vice President Leni Robredo has renewed her call for the government to conduct more COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) testing after the number of infections due to the Delta variant rose to an all-time high of 22,366 new cases on Monday, Aug. 30. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) “Kahit...
The active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Pateros increased by 52 percent in one week. Pateros, the smallest local government unit (LGU) in Metro Manila, added 90 new COVID-19 cases on Aug. 30, bringing the total active cases to 512, an increase of 176 cases, or 52 percent from 336 last...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III said the municipal government has temporarily shut down a vaccination site after health workers tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a live broadcast on Facebook Monday, Ponce said only two vaccination sites are open and the site at...
MB/ FILE PHOTO The Department of Health (DOH) reported the detection of 516 more cases of the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant on Sunday, Aug. 29. In a statement, the DOH said that 473 of the new Delta cases are local cases, 31 are returning overseas Filipinos (ROF), while 12 cases...
DOH UNDERSECRETARY MARIA ROSARIO VERGEIRE (Manila Bulletin File Photo) The Department of Health (DOH) took a swipe at former adviser to the government's coronavirus task force Dr. Tony Leachon after he questioned the procurement of vaccines. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire maintained that...
