Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion on Monday, June 21, received his second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder Joey Concepcion gets second dose of coronavirus vaccine on June 21,...
An official of the Department of Health (DOH) has defended the continued use of face shields, saying that it provides added protection against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Dr. Alethea De Guzman of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said the combined use of face shields and...
A credible and massive information campaign about the national government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines is the best antidote to the vaccine hesitancy of most Filipinos, Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Tuesday. Hontiveros issued the reminder as she thumbed down President Duterte’s threat to...
Health workers from public hospitals in Metro Manila stormed the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, June 22, to call for the immediate release of their benefits. (Photo from AHW) Various health workers held a noise barrage and "die-in protest" in front of the DOH gate to ask for the unreleased...
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque on Tuesday, June 22, denied flip-flopping on the face shield policy. He pointed instead to Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III and Senator Joel Villanueva as having prematurely announced that the wearing of face shields will no longer be required in...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez is asking the Department of Health (DOH) to immediately send 24 ventilators to hospitals in Cagayan de Oro City amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Rodriguez on Tuesday, June 22, disclosed that he wrote to DOH Secretary...
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque on Tuesday, June 22, said that there is a "legal basis" for the government to require Filipinos to get their COVID-19 jabs when the safety of the general public is in danger such as during a national health emergency. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS /...
An official of the Department of Health (DOH) is pushing for strict border protocols for arriving international travelers in a bid to prevent the entry of more highly transmissible variants of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Dr. Alethea De Guzman, Director of the...
As President Duterte finally decided to retain the mandatory wearing of face shield, the Philippine National Police (PNP) urged the public to follow the order, citing the more transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the reason. PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T Eleazar...
Bruce Springsteen The Boss rules! If you have received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, chances are you will not be allowed to watch Bruce Springsteen's return to Broadway this summer, which will begin on June 26. On June 18, The New York Post reported: “At the direction of New York State,...
COVID-19 VACCINATION – Davao City residents flock to the city's biggest vaccination hub at the Azuela Cove in Lanang to avail themselves of COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccination hub could serve at least 1,000 recipients per day. (Keith Bacongco) An informed consent is still needed before an...
How is syphilis, a sexually-transmitted disease, related to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)? The Commission on Audit (COA) asked this question to the provincial government of La Union after finding out that it disbursed P2.58 million in anti-COVID-19 funds granted by the national government...
