A good balancing act between maintaining the country’s economic recovery and protecting Filipinos against the dreaded Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez speaks during President Duterte's pre-recorded public briefing on Saturday, July 24, 2021....
In a now-viral post, a physician shared from her experience how different coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines offer the same protection. (Photo from Dr. Anne Gabriel-Chan) To encourage the public to get vaccinated, Dr. Anne Gabriel-Chan of the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center shared...
There are now an additional 6,715 fully vaccinated individuals after Vice President Leni Robredo’s NagaVax Express finished administering all of Naga City’s allocated single-dose Janssen vaccines in two days. Vice President Leni Robredo oversees the vaccination process at the Nagavax Express on...
More than a year of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, various women's groups launched a "survival" cookbook featuring peasant women and mothers' recipes of coping up with dwindling household incomes and rising food prices. (Photo from Amihan) The Amihan National Federation of Peasant...
“Together, we shall fight this pandemic with the same fervor as our campaign against illegal drugs, criminality, insurgency, and corruption in high places and entrenched parochial interests." This was what President Duterte vowed in his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year—to...
President Duterte asked local government units (LGUs) to come up with a "more sane" method in vaccinating their constituents during rainy days as he noted they let the people queue in the flood for their anti-coronavirus (COVID-19) shot. President Duterte tells local government units (LGUs) to be...
President Duterte snapped at Congress after some lawmakers claimed the government was underspending the funds allotted to the coronavirus response, saying they were only talking about one percent of the money that was actually released. President Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the statement...
This early, the government has set aside P45 billion for any acquisition of additional coronavirus vaccines for Filipinos next year. President Duterte with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III (File photo: Malacañang) Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III assured the nation about the...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Chalk it up to quarantine fatigue and to the overconfidence from, and misunderstanding of, vaccination; but as we revert to GCQ here in the NCR, I get worrying reports about how both here and in major cities down South, there seems...
ATEEZ’s San (Instagram) A member of K-pop boy band ATEEZ has recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 11 days after his diagnosis. In a statement released on July 23, KQ Entertainment said member San, 22, is now “completely cured” of the disease on July 19. “We would like to inform...
Five new cases of Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were detected in Manila, Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso announced in his daily capital report on Saturday (July 24). "Mga kababayan, sa Maynila po ay may limang kumpirmado three weeks ago na Delta variant. Lima po. Salamat sa...
Pateros Mayor Miguel "Ike" Ponce III issued Saturday an executive order setting new quarantine rules including longer curfew hours in the municipality amid the threat of the highly contagious Delta variant. The Delta variant is a strain of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes the coronavirus...
