It is personal contact that promotes the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and with the easing of restrictions on social distancing and the rising mobility in most of the 50 states of the United States, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many problems in our country, affecting not just the health sector but all other aspects of the national life. It affected the running of government, the operations of business and industry, and the lives of ordinary people of the country. There was the problem of...
In a world desperate for a vaccine against COVID-19, it does not matter who develops it first and who can mass produce it for the waiting billions of people around the world. Three possible vaccines being developed in the United Kingdom, the United States, and China are often mentioned as close to...
Now that Metro Manila and Calabarzon have been reverted to the status of Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ), the second most stringent of the government’s pandemic restrictions, people have to go back to the time when they...
In recent weeks, there has been a stepped-up exchange of words between officials of the United States and China on the South China Sea. In the wake of the 4 th anniversary of the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court...
On one hand, we have the fact that the coronavirus is still very much around. As of July 31, the Department of Health and the World Health Organization said the Philippines had 93,354 cases and 2,023 deaths. The Philippines now has the most cases in the Western Pacific region -- more than China’s...
In the national effort to meet the problems raised by COVID-19, Congress is moving to enact laws to help support the economy which has been badly hit by the pandemic. A number of economic bills have thus been filed in Congress, some from the administration. The Corporate Income Tax and Incentives...
President Duterte revived interest in the death penalty when he included among his proposals in his State of the Nation Address that it be reinstated as penalty for drug-related crimes. In the House of Representatives, Congressmen Robert Ace Barbers of Bayan Muna and Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa, who...
This weekend, the global number of COVID-19 cases crossed the 16-million mark, with the United States having the most cases at over 4 million. The global death toll was 646,996, the US accounting for nearly a fourth of the total with 146,788....
The President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday listed 21 priority bills he asked Congress to enact in this second regular session of the 18 th Congress. . He again asked Congress to approve a bill reviving the death penalty for drug...
Amid so much news of business closures, job losses, and many nations seeing their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall to unprecedented levels, it is good to hear positive reports in some sectors, reports of expectations of recovery from the depth to which the COVID-19 pandemic has...
A recent study by researchers of the University of California at San Diego with the University of Toronto, and the Indian Institute of Science found that respiratory droplets from a cough or a sneeze can travel — depending on weather conditions — eight to 13 feet away before evaporating. The...
