Metro Manila is not yet ready for an Alert Level 1 status, health reform advocate and former National Task Force (NTF) against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) special adviser Dr. Anthony “Tony” Leachon said on Sunday, Feb. 13. “Lahat tayo gusto natin ng normal pero we are not yet ready. Sa...
Top officials in charge of the policies in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will meet on Monday, Feb, 14., to discuss the new alert level status in the country, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año confirmed on Sunday, Feb. 13. Año said...
Amid the decreasing number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in the country, a health reform advocate said that the Philippines should focus on creating a pandemic exit plan, conduct more testings, and ramp up its vaccination programs. (Mark Balmores / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) “...
(FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has yet to reach the endemic stage at this point in time. “For now, we cannot say that it is really at that state where we have this endemic,” said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press...
A health reform advocate urged the national government to “wait and observe” in the next two weeks if the cases will once again spike up before easing the country’s Alert Level status for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) Health reform advocate and former...
Malacañang is optimistic that the country's employment situation will improve in the coming months as more Filipinos are expected to return to work with the easing of quarantine restrictions and the reopening of economic activities. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop, with the...
The Taguig City government has allowed the playing of basketball, volleyball, football, and other contact sports in the city under Alert Level 2. The Taguig Safe City Task Force recently issued Advisory No. 67 allowing contact sports in Taguig based on the resolutions issued by the Inter-Agency...
(PHIVOLCS) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) monitored "localized" earthquake activity in Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Island since Tuesday evening, Feb. 8. In an advisory, Phivolcs said 11 "very shallow" earthquakes between magnitudes 0.9 and 2.1 were recorded by the...
The government's pandemic task force is set to discuss Metro Manila's possible deescalation to Alert Level 1 for the second half of February 2022 and may make the announcement on the weekend, Malacañang said. (FILE PHOTO BY ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the...
As daily COVID-19 cases are expected to drop this month, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion urged the government to place the country under the least restrictive Alert Level 1 by March. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder Joey Concepcion (PCOO/...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año rejected on Monday, Feb. 7, proposals to suspend the alert level system with the country’s steady health situation improvement in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In an interview over DzBB, Año insisted...
People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases.(FILE PHOTO BY ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) An infectious disease expert said it is not yet the right time to remove the alert...
