The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office wants to focus its attention on deadly diseases other than the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), saying those afflicted also need immediate assistance from its charity funds. Lotto line up At the resumption of the budget briefing in the House of...
Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairman Greco Belgica has sought "prayers" from his followers after learning that he had contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). PACC Chairman Greco Belgica (Photo from Belgica's Facebook) Belgica revealed his condition via Facebook on Friday,...
The Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom) has gained the approval of the government's pandemic task force on its request to reopen off-track betting (OTB) stations in Metro Manila for the duration of the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). (Photo from Philracom) This was learned...
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi ordered barangay captains to strengthen the use of isolation facilities and implementation of prevent-detect-isolate-treat-reintegrate (PDITR) strategy to stem the rising number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the city. He convened city officials and...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Health experts on Friday, Aug. 27, said that Filipinos should not feel discouraged from getting vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) despite the occurrence of vaccine breakthrough infections. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines...
The government's pandemic task force has approved the adoption of the promotion to use the OneHealthPass platform--a tool that aims to ensure the seamless movement of international travelers arriving in the country. The OneHealthPass online platform. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is committed to assist country’s researchers who are carrying out projects that would help boost the country’s fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disease. (COARE Facebook page) This was assured by DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de...
DOH/MB The Philippines broke its record for the second highest tally of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in a day after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 17,447 new infections on Friday, Aug. 27. The previous record was last Aug. 20 as the DOH detected 17,231 cases of COVID-19 then. Based...
Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman on Friday, Aug. 27, suggested the audit of the government’s billions of pesos expenditure for the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program. CDA3E812-89E8-4023-B6CF-1B66F6F5ECD3 The veteran independent lawmaker made the call as government continued to reject...
President Duterte (Malacañang photo) A teachers’ group on Friday, Aug. 27, said that the “Duterte” variant -- pertaining to President Duterte -- is the bigger threat to the education sector amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the country. “Hindi po Delta variant ang...
(Ali Vicoy / File photo / Manila Bulletin) The number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is seen to increase further amid the spread of the Delta variant of coronavirus, a government health adviser said Friday, Aug. 27. “Alam natin, tataas talaga ang kaso kahit anong gawin...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion will lead a press briefing next week on the proposed "bakuna (vaccine) bubble" for the National Capital Region (NCR). Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion (Photo from Go...
