With the rollout of vaccines against COVID-19 in Metro Manila and in nearby provinces, Games and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Baham Mitra expressed optimism on the resumption of more sports events in the country by next year. Mitra said that the continued vaccination of Filipinos serves as a...
The national government is looking forward to administer 55 million vaccine doses against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in October by including children and the general population in the national inoculation program. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. reads a report about the national vaccination...
President Duterte has green-lit the start of the vaccination of the general population, including children, against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) starting this October. (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Tuesday, Sept. 28, in a...
The House of Representatives’ parallel investigation into the government’s procurement of supposed overpriced COVID-19 pandemic supplies is obviously an attempt to divert the attention away from President Duterte who has been defending his former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang,...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday night, Sept. 27, appealed to the public anew to get the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as recent government data showed that most critical and intubated patients are unvaccinated. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana...
Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation’s director Linconn Ong might spend the Christmas and New Year’s Eve detained if he continues to be evasive and refuse to cooperate with the Senate, Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Tuesday. “If he continues to be evasive, not to cooperate, I would...
At least 19 priests and seminarians at the Ateneo Jesuit residences in Quezon City have tested positive for COVID-19. According to a report of DZMM, four Jesuit residences are now under lockdown due to COVID-19 outbreak. Fourteen foreign seminarians are also positive for COVID-19 at Arrupe...
Fully vaccinated individuals have reached 65 percent of the total population in Taguig, the city government said. As of Sept. 26, 565,389 individuals have been fully vaccinated in Taguig, or 65 percent of the estimated total population 872,980 based on the Department of Health’s 2021 projection....
A mental health health facility in Antipolo City, Rizal, has been placed under granular lockdown after most of its staff contracted COVID-19. (Photo from Mayor Jun Ynares' Facebook) Antipolo City spokesperson Jun Ynares, said that after one of the staff of Villa Herzon Mental Health Center tested...
How’s your heart? There are 520 million people with cardiovascular disease and they have been more at risk of developing severe forms of COVID-19, according to the World Heart Federation. Resulting in 18.6 million deaths per year, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains to be the forefront cause of...
As the country continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its more contagious Delta variant, the Makati City local government continues to ramp up its efforts in protecting its residents against the dreaded virus. (Photo from Makati PIO) According to the local government unit (LGU), the city has...
K-pop superstars will be returning to the stage with their first in-person concert in two years in Los Angeles. BTS and Big Hit Music announced on Sept. 28 the holding of the “BTS Permission to Dance on Stage-LA” on Nov. 27 and 28, and Dec. 1 and 2 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. BTS...
