Senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel 'Chel' Diokno on Monday, April 18, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to let school administrators decide whether to require teachers to return to onsite work despite the bad internet connection in most school premises. Human rights...
The Philippines and Japan have exchanged diplomatic notes today on the Japanese Government’s loan support for the Philippines’ emergency response to Covid-19 and related social protection, relief, and economic recovery stimulus measures, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Left to...
Malacañang on Monday said that the administration of the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on the immunocompromised and the elderly "has nothing to do" with the possible uptick of new Covid-19 cases next month. In a statement, presidential spokesman Martin Andanar said the second booster shot,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, April 18, said the projection of at least 300,000 active cases of Covid-19 by mid-May is possible should the public continue to neglect minimum health and safety protocols. Passers-by walk in front of a tarpaulin with images of frontliners wearing face...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez acknowledged the hard work of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) in bringing down the confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the city to nine. During the regular virtual flag raising ceremony on Monday, April 18, Dr. Darius Sebastian, CESU head, reported...
A group of education workers on Monday, April 18, once again called for the suspension of the Department of Education (DepEd) directive requiring the mandatory physical reporting of teachers in schools under Alert Level 1. Faculty members of Commonwealth High School in Ecol St., Quezon City report...
It is more important to focus on the number of vaccinated people in the country than on the number of Covid-19 cases, World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) representative to the Philippines Dr. Rajendra Yadav said. WHO representative to the Philippines Dr. Rejendra Yadav (Screenshot taken from...
Senator Nancy Binay on Monday called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to get rid of the unnecessary requirements they have set for students participating in face-to-face classes. Binay made the call after CHED and the IATF required students...
Six administrations will inherit the $25.74 billion foreign loans that the Duterte administration secured during the Covid-19 pandemic, an obligation that needs to be repaid by Filipinos over the next four decades or until 2060. Data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed that total government...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,042,097 on Sunday as 1,150 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, four deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the death toll to 521,751....
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed Senator Anne Ruston will take over as the minister for health if the government is re-elected. Morrison on Sunday announced that Ruston, currently the Minister for Families and Social Services and Minister for Women's...
National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 special adviser Dr. Teodoro “Ted” Herbosa, on Sunday, April 17, once again reiterated the importance of getting vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19 amid the emergence of new subvariants and the lingering threat of waning immunity. (Ali Vicoy /...
