As the country continues with its shift to digital education, the Computerization Program of the Department of Education (DepEd) has seen a significant increase in budget allocation in its 2022 budget. (Photo from DepEd) The DepEd Computerization Program (DCP) is aimed at “providing appropriate...
Soiled and substandard face shields are allegedly being repacked and supplied by Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation to the Department of Health (DOH) for use of health workers. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) At the ninth hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Friday, September...
(Jansen Romero / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that all laboratories in the country that perform coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing undergo ‘regular quality assurance’ checks to ensure the accuracy of the test results. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) announced Friday, Sept. 24, that they will deploy medical teams to augment the healthcare systems of hospitals in the National Capital Region (NCR) that were swamped with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. (MANILA...
PAGSANJAN, Laguna - The local government unit (LGU) is preparing to open its third isolation facility on Monday (September 27). The 40 bed-capacity isolation facility will be in La Corona resort, which the municipal government rented to accommodate asymptomatic coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco announced Friday that the city has the lowest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) growth rate, Average Daily Attack Rate (ADAR), and reproduction rate. In a Facebook post, Tiangco shared a photo from independent research group OCTA showing COVID-19 data of all the local...
HARBIN, China -- The virus strain behind the latest COVID-19 infections in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has been identified as the Delta variant, local authorities said Friday. A medical worker collects swab sample from a woman for nucleic acid testing in Harbin,...
The government's pandemic task force has decided to relax some of the guidelines on the pilot implementation of Alert Levels System for COVID-19 (coronavirus) Response in the National Capital Region (NCR), allowing more people to go out and more activities to take place in the pilot area. Manila...
The Philippines will now be counting positive results from rapid antigen tests on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement Friday, Sept. 24 following a meeting by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of...
MARK BALMORES/MANILA BULLETIN The increase in the number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Metro Manila seemed to be slowing down, however, the public should not be complacent over this development, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, Sept. 24. “We have observed over the...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia has cancelled its "Festival of the Dead" -- an annual holiday where the Buddhist faithful pay respects to deceased relatives -- after a coronavirus outbreak among monks in the capital. Worshippers around Cambodia visit pagodas during the two-week Pchum Ben...
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is about to hit a milestone with half of the adult population fully inoculated. Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Xinhua) According to data released by the Department of Health, 74.1 percent of Australians aged 16 and older have received at...
