The Muntinlupa City government placed two additional communities under extreme lockdown after detecting 47 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. A report from the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) showed the affected areas are a building with 60 occupants, and Sitio Aplaya with 292 residents,...
CAVITE - The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here has recorded 16,459 active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases as of 2 p.m. on Friday (September 3), its highest count so far. According to the report from PHO's Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (PESU), Bacoor City tops the local...
Low-cost airline Cebu Pacific said it continues to actively transport COVID-19 vaccines across the country as it brought more than 8.5 million doses to 25 provinces since March this year. (File photo by Cebu Pacific) Alex Reyes, Chief Strategy Officer at Cebu Pacific, said more than 900,000 vaccine...
Cases of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) increased to 26 in Taguig, according to a report. This is an increase of five cases, or 24 percent, from 21 Delta variant cases listed by the Department of Health (DOH) last Aug. 26 based on the genome sequencing run...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is stepping up its campaign against illegal online activities related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which includes the alleged selling of fake entry permits, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results, and vaccination...
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) flock at the Matina Town Square in Davao City during the vaccination rollout for OFWs. (Keith Bacongco / MANILA BULLETIN) The country’s vaccine expert panel (VEP) is set to decide next week whether to recommend giving booster shots or a third shot of the...
The San Juan City local government announced on Friday that it will now start vaccinating non-residents via the '"JuanVax" program in its bid to help vaccinate more people against COVID-19, especially from the more contagious Delta variant. Mayor Francis Zamora "Magsisimula na po ang San Juan...
This new kind of cryptocurrency empowers musicians YOUNG PROMISE Alibatta first artist Ali Young Record label Alibatta has minted Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), a type of cryptocurrency to go alongside their music artists’ songs, in a first-of-its-kind move in Southeast Asia. Dubbed after the...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) As the Philippines is once again facing another surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, medical frontliners appealed to the government to intensify its responses against the pandemic as the country’s healthcare system is currently under immense pressure....
The United States has delivered an additional 188,370 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Thursday, Sept. 2, as part of its worldwide effort to help the country in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. US Embassy officials join Philippine government officials in...
PHILIPPINE GENOME CENTER WEBSITE Eighty-three percent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) random samples sequenced and analyzed in August were found to be of the highly transmissible Delta variant, Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Executive Director Cynthia Saloma said on Friday, Sept. 3....
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, readily responded Thursday night, Sept. 2, when he was bombarded by President Duterte with questions on the government's procurement of personal protective equipment (PPEs) in the early months of the...
