UNITED NATIONS -- Britain warned the United Nations Security Council Thursday that half of coup-wracked Myanmar's population of 54 million could become infected with COVID-19 within the next two weeks. Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a victim of the COVID-19...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel will start offering a third dose of COVID-19 vaccinations to people aged over 60, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday, one of first countries to provide a booster shot. The jabs will begin on Sunday as part of a ''complementary vaccination campaign'' for people...
The city government of Caloocan City inoculated senior citizens with Johnson & Johnson Janssen one-shot vaccine on July 27-28 after claiming their pension at the payout sites. (CALOOCAN PIO/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Bilang ang ating mga senior citizen ay kasama sa pinaka-vulnerable sa sakit, patuloy...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s antigen test came back negative, allaying fears that she might have contracted the virus during her meeting with Senator Richard Gordon, who tested positive for COVID-19, last week. Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Richard Gordon (OVP/Senate of the...
The country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) will likely come up with “some recommendations” next week on the use of coronavirus disease (COVID) booster shots for those fully vaccinated individuals, particularly the country's healthcare workers and those who are immunocompromised. A staff member...
The government may consider limiting the movement of the unvaccinated only when a large percentage of the population becomes fully inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the pandemic task force members at the Malacañang Golf...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Thursday, July 29, advised the government's pandemic task force to carefully study and consider factors before pushing for a law that would prohibit unvaccinated individuals from going out. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III (Alvin Kasiban/MANILA...
Workers belonging to the A4 priority group are inoculated with Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines inside a cinema-turned vaccination hub in a mall on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 (ALI VICOY/MANILA BULLETIN) The target number of people who have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) must be...
Senator Richard J. Gordon has been admitted in a hospital in Makati City after initial tests indicated that he has pneumonia. Philiippine Red Cross chairman and Senator Richard Gordon on his way to Makati Medical Center on July 28, 2021. (Photo from Senator Gordon's Twitter account/MANILA BULLETIN)...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Philippines should take note of the warnings from other countries with surge in infections due to the Delta variant, the OCTA Research said Thursday, July 29. OCTA fellow Prof. Guido David said that the National Capital Region (NCR) is “at its early stages” of a...
With 197 voting in the affirmative and zero negative and abstentions, the House of Representatives passed on third and final reading the bill that would authorize the stockpiling of strategic and critical drugs and other medical devices to address public health emergencies such as the on-going 2019...
SONA PROTEST RALLY (MB/ FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the deployment of policemen during President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), while waiting for their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test results, is considered a "breach" of protocol. “Yes, we will say...
