The Department of Health (DOH) announced last April 8 that it has “adopted the recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to temporarily suspend the use of AstraZeneca vaccines for individuals aged below 60 years old, following recent reports of rare cases of blood clots with low...
A former Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) housemate slammed Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. for lack of details on quarantine status in Metro Manila and other places. On Twitter April 11, Yen Santos said that Roque should not delay the explanation on the difference between enhanced community...
Regine Velasquez-Alcasid Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid sparked a conversation after venting out her stress on the rising COVID-19 cases recently. In her own words, Regine lamented what she believes is currently happening in our country: "Bakit parang pinabayaan na lang tayo? Kanya-kanya...
Heaven Peralejo During her isolation period after she tested positive for COVID-19, young actress Heaven Peralejo admitted she lost the will to live. "Sa totoo lang I've been through a lot of bashing and I don't know, may affect pala siya," Heaven revealed. "Ang ngayon lang siya nagsi-sink in sa...
Alice Dixson Alice Dixson is now part of the growing list of celebrities who took the COVID-19 vaccine. Dixson proudly announced this last April 9, with a photo of herself captioned: "I got my first (Vaccine Shot) yesterday, thanks to my big bro who drove me back and forth to the vaccination site...
Aurora Pijuan (Facebook) Aurora Pijuan, the country's second Miss International, has compared other new international pageants to COVID-19 variants saying she was surprised there were many international beauty contests. "I didn't know there are so many new...
Alessandra De Rossi is not happy with the way things are going. And so much so she's already thinking of venturing into another profession altogether. Taking to Twitter, she said, "Last year, di ako tumanggap ng work noong 1k cases pa lang. Sabi ko next year na ako babawi, for sure things will get...
Five health staff, including two doctors, at a vaccination center in Pateros tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), slowing down the rollout in the municipality. Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III said in a Facebook Live video on Friday that the municipal government decided to...
Cebu Pacific (CEB) transported 77,800 additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines to six cities this week, flying in a total of 130,800 doses nationwide since last month. Its latest airlift earlier today (April 9), brought 6,000 doses of vaccine to Tuguegarao. This week’s batch of consecutive shipments...
Kenya on Thursday started vaccinating its Olympic athletes against COVID-19, paving the way to compete in the Tokyo Games. All the 75 athletes in the Olympic team bubble at Nairobi's Kasarani stadium were vaccinated on Thursday, in an exercise which will also cover the Paralympic teams, rugby...
How has the pandemic changed us? I wish I could wax romantic like Elizabeth Barrett Browning over all that we have lost — friends and family, our way of life, the world as we knew it. What’s different now — because we have yet to see the end of the pandemic or because it is also possible (God...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo In 2017 — I attended the Emerging Leaders Program at the Harvard Kennedy School which was chaired by Dr. Elaine Kamarck and Dr. Christopher Robichaud. In our class on ethics — we discussed about the responsibilities of public action via a simulation exercise of...
