President Duterte has expressed his gratitude to the private sector for their "tremendous assistance" to the government as the country continued to grapple with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with core members of the...
Filipino medical student Chris Dee talks about the importance of the right kind of information in science “The idea came about first and foremost because I knew how connected Filipinos were on social media,” Chris Dee told me. A graduate of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III reiterated the importance for the public to have themselves listed in their respective areas in preparation for their vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...
The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is now allowing the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and its authorized agents to resume the selling of Lotto, Keno, Scratch-It and Small Town Lottery tickets nationwide even under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ). Philippine Charity...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author is a Filipina married to an American. She worked for a Top 20 Fortune Oil Company as a Corporate Affairs Field Manager before taking an early retirement package in mid-2020. Before she left for the U.S. in 2006, Marian was the corporate communications head of a...
National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. acknowledged on Thursday night, May 13 that the entire population of the Philippines would have to be vaccinated if it wants to totally eliminate the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar, Secretary...
After the Philippines recorded its first cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant from India, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has confirmed that the Department of Health (DOH) has recommended the inclusion of two more countries in the list with travel restrictions. DOH Secretary...
President Duterte has placed the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions from May 15 to 31, 2021 following the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). President Duterte at the start of his...
(The author is a Filipina married to an American. She worked for a Top 20 Fortune Oil Company as a Corporate Affairs Field Manager before taking an early retirement package in mid-2020. Before she left for the U.S. in 2006, Marian was the corporate communications head of a major oil company...
She would elicit from her students the best versions of themselves as thinking and aspiring scientists and engineers TEACHING BY EXAMPLE Class ‘79 Section A of Laguna College, with Miss Aurora Baldrias (second row center) and the author (top row third from right) After completing her...
Malacanang will instruct the “subcontractors” hired by the government to speed up the deployment of both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in order to meet the suggested expiry of the jabs, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Thursday. Presidential Spokesman Harry...
It will be extremely difficult to track down and perform contact tracing on the patrons of a Caloocan City resort where coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related health protocols have been gleefully violated. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (Screengrab...
