The healthcare utilization rate in Metro Manila has decreased in the past weeks, the country’s treatment czar and Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega said Tuesday, April 27. Health Sec. Francisco Duque with Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega inspect a new isolation facility at the Eva Macapagal...
Two senators have raised alarm over the continuous surge of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Philippines, with the number of infections now exceeding one million. Unmindful of the danger due to COVID-19, shoppers flock in Divisoria, Manila, on March 20, 2021. The Philippines, on...
More than 925,000 individuals have recovered from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, April 27, reported 10,109 new recoveries bringing the total recoveries to 925,027. DOH/MB The total number of COVID-19 cases also rose to 1,013,618 with the addition...
Two Filipinos died due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) in India while 20 others were infected, Philippine Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing, Jr. said Tuesday, as India is battling the world’s worst health crisis that is claiming thousands of lives each day. Philippine Ambassador to India...
The public were urged not to let their guard down despite the signs of a decrease in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the recent weeks following the reimposition of strict quarantine measures. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima was discharged from the Manila Doctors Hospital on Tuesday morning, April 27, after a three-day medical furlough. Senator Leila de Lima is discharged from the Manila Doctors' Hospital Tuesday, April 27, 2021 and is escorted to detention at the PNP Custodial Center...
GMA News reporter Tina Panganiban-Perez Using social media as a powerful tool, digital powerhouse GMA Public Affairs is encouraging more Filipinos to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and help curb its spread through informed choices by launching the online advocacy campaign...
Progressive lawmakers on Tuesday, April 27, slammed anew the Duterte administration for its supposed mismanagement of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the Philippines, with cases breaching the one million mark. President Duterte (left) speaks to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III...
People’s taxes are the funds that need to be made transparent and not the amounts of money being donated to community pantries, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Tuesday. “Those are private funds; not our taxes; that’s where we need transparency because that’s our...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday, April 27, that there is no travel ban for overseas Filipino workers in India. People stand in queue keeping social distance beside a COVID-19 awareness scarecrows placed by Chennai municipality at a market during a...
The Muntinlupa City government on Tuesday opened its second major vaccination hub at SM Center Muntinlupa in Brgy. Tunasan to serve more residents. Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi with City Administrator Allan Cachuela, City Councilors Allan Camilon and Ryan Bagatsing and SM Center officers at the...
The EcoWaste Coalition has underscored the need to separate waste materials contaminated by the new coronavirus from recyclable items as a way of protecting informal waste workers and recyclers from getting infected with the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Pawel Czerwinski/...
