Metro Manila's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) reproduction number further declined to 0.77, an expert of the OCTA Research said on Wednesday, May 5. "Magandang balita. Nasa 0.77 na lang ang R natin. Ibig sabihin less than 1 siya, bumabagal na ang pagkalat at yung kaso bumaba na from a high of 5,000...
Members and pensioners of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) may avail of its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emergency loan program until June 21. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE) Under the COVID-19 emergency loan program, qualified borrowers with existing emergency loans could...
Parañaque City residents are no longer selective when it comes to the brand of vaccine they are getting against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Wednesday, May 5. (Edwin Olivarez / MANILA BULLETIN) Olivarez, in an interview with DZMM, said that people have been...
A science--savvy consumer advocacy group has criticized the proposal of vaccine czar, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. to lower the national government's vaccination target from 70 million to just 58 million Filipinos out of the country's total population of 110 million. AGHAM President Angelo Palmones...
The 2018 Miss Universe titlist braved the pandemic to spend time with her parents. She updated fans about it on social media recently. Sharing a view from inside a plane, she wrote, "After countless rescheduled flights, two flight cancellations, swab tests, stress, applications and waiting...I'm...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday expressed his appreciation for the work of the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong in defending the rights of overseas Filipino workers from the selective plan to vaccinate 370,000 foreign domestic helpers. Foreign Affairs Secretary...
The first modular hemodialysis facility at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City has been completed. HEMODIALYSIS FACILITY-- The first modular hemodialysis facility at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City will soon be operational following...
NEW YORK (AFP) - Pfizer sharply increased its 2021 profit projections on Tuesday, citing much higher Covid-19 vaccine sales which are on track to provide a ''durable'' revenue stream in the wake of the pandemic. The drugmaker reported a jump in first-quarter profits based on surging revenues, with...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday, May 5, rejected President Duterte’s pronouncement that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III is the “hero” behind the government’s response to the pandemic, saying the Philippine’s coronavirus (COVID-19) management is a failure under his...
A ranking official of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has denied that that the government's multi-billion Calamity Fund remain unspent, stressing that it is continuously being spent by the agency to address the needs of victims of various disasters and other...
The Department of Health (DOH) said over two million doses of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have already been administered in the country, as of May 4. A senior citizen receives her first dose of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at the Andres Bonifacio Elementary School in Manila on...
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is pushing for the inclusion of economic frontline workers among the A4 priority group in the government's mass vaccination program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Mark Balmores/ File Photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) “PEZA-registered companies,...
