Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. (Luis Acosta / File photo / AFP ) The Philippines received on Thursday night, June 10, a total of 2.28 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine through the World Health Organization (WHO)-led COVAX facility. The vaccines will be administered to those...
The compliance with minimum public health standards against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has decreased in the Visayas and Mindanao, according to a latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS). (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a nationwide poll conducted from April 28 to May...
A huge portion of Filipinos have indicated that they continue to observe minimum public health standards amid the ongoing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, a survey from the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed. Photo from SWS In a nationwide poll conducted from April 28 to May 2, the SWS asked...
If there's one thing we learned to value even more from the past year, it's the importance of taking care of our health. But times aren't exactly the best ones, with most of us tightening our belts and pockets on monthly expenses. So promos and sales are always a welcome sight for us as we get to...
Known for his distrust of the media, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday apologized to a Manila-based newspaper for undermining the veracity of its report on the 370 respirators which were left rotting at the warehouse of the Department of Health (DOH) in the middle of the...
DOH/MB Another 7,485 more people nationwide caught the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, June 10. The country's COVID-19 tally climbed to 1,293,687 wherein 4.4 percent or 56,921 cases are still active. Of the currently ill patients, 92.6 percent...
Kakai Bautista continues to post revealing photos of herself on social media despite bodyshamers giving her no respite. Recently on Instagram the actress noted how food, however fattening, is "very much essential" in everyone's lives. "I LOVE TO EAT. And..... pak all that Toxic Filipino culture...
The National Capital Region (NCR) Plus might shift to an "ordinary" general community quarantine (GCQ) by mid-June amid the improving health situation, Malacañang declared Thursday. A health worker gives a coronavirus shot to an essential worker while Las Piñas Vice Mayor April Aguilar...
A health worker prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site in Paranaque City on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) reiterated that all coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that are already approved in the Philippines are safe and...
Senator Nancy Binay on Thursday urged the Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to fast track the release of all coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in stock to help address the increased demand among A4 priority groups. Binay lamented some local government units (LGUs) are...
Of substance and spirit Diwa C. Guinigundo Last January 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was quoted by BBC News saying that it was not fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to be vaccinated before the older, more vulnerable people in poorer...
The National Soil Health Program (NSHP), which intends to rejuvenate the country’s degraded and “sick” soil, has received the green light from President Duterte, the Department of Agriculture (DA) bared Wednesday, June 9. (Photo courtesy of DA) The NSHP will be implemented by the DA through...
