La Salle St. Benilde gym In support of the country's efforts towards herd immunity, La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) opens its campus as a vaccination center to serve the residents of Barangay Wack-Wack Greenhills East. The initiative assists the Department of Health (DOH) to increase the number of...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) detected 4,842 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, raising the Philippines' overall tally of confirmed infections to over 1.1 million. For two consecutive days, the DOH reported more than 4,000 new coronavirus infections. The case bulletin released on...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is doubling efforts to encourage more first time voters to register through the poll body’s online voter registration platform “iRehistro.” John Paul Martin, city election officer, said that while application for registration in some Comelec offices...
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday, May 12, backed the proposed construction of a "mega vaccination center" at the 8.5-hectare urban forest in Parañaque City, saying that there are funds, anyway, to replace the trees to be cut for the project. (Photo from Nayong Pilipino...
The Manila city government will start inoculating the medical frontliners with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday (May 13). A total of 7,020 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at the Sta. Ana Hospital on Tuesday night (May 11). (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The country is aiming to inoculate more than 70,000 people per day next month as more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines have arrived in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said. A health worker prepares to inject a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination hub in Makati City (ALI VICOY...
Many relatives of coronavirus (COVID-19) victims who died from the disease are asking Congress to pass a legislation that would exempt them from paying estate tax, or at the very least lower the rate. (Photo by Jarl Schmidt / Unsplash) They said it will be another financial hardship if they will...
Zamboanga City topped the list of areas outside Metro Manila with the highest number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases reported in the past week, based on the OCTA Research Group's report released on Wednesday, May 12. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) From May 5 to 11, the...
The Muntinlupa City government has used up all the 3,000 doses of Sputnik V Gam-COVID-Vac vaccines donated by the national government and received new supply of other brands. On May 11, an additional 32,880 vials were delivered by the national government to Muntinlupa, consisting of 31,200 vials of...
Makati Mayor Abby Binay said the Metro Manila Council (MMC) is “united in position” to gradually ease quarantine restrictions. (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) “I think we are united in a position na magiging gradual yung opening (for the opening to be gradual) and that...
The local government unit (LGU) of Makati City has started administering Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccines to its residents at the Makati Medical Center (MMC) on Wednesday (May 12). The inoculation was conducted at the Auditorium on the 8th floor of MMC’s Tower 2. In an online forum, Mayor...
The Philippines must improve its vaccination efforts to protect more Filipinos from the B.1617 variant or the "double mutant" first traced to India, an infectious disease expert said Wednesday, May 12. Manila residents from A1 to A3 groups receive their 2nd dose of Sinovac vaccines during the...
