In a bid to promote public health and safe economic activities amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government is pushing for greater public access to outdoor spaces for dining, recreation, among others. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency...
President Duterte has approved bringing back the National Capital Region (NCR) to general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions and changed the quarantine classifications of other areas, Malacañang revealed. Manila Bulletin File Photo Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
The Quezon City government is taking all possible measures to stop the entry or spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant in the city. “Ang amin pong mindset dito sa Quezon City ngayon, we treat every positive case now as a possible Delta variant (Our mindset here in Quezon City today is we treat...
Senators have called on the government to again restrict the holding of mass gatherings and events as more cases of the highly-contagious Delta coronavirus variant are being detected in the Philippines. In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special...
Another one million doses of Sinovac vaccines from China arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on Friday morning, July 23. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) The anti-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jabs touched down in the country at 7:24...
Kids should stay home for now. The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) recalled its resolution allowing children aged five and above outdoors due to the threat of the Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
EDITORS DESK Johannes Chua Early this week, French President Emmanuel Macron, in response to the rising cases of the more infectious Delta variant, outlined strong measures to stem the virus spread. His address to the nation can be best summed up with this: “Get vaccinated or else…” He was...
SURVIVOR’S TALE “I am God’s miracle,” Cora Villanueva, 65, said a year after she tested positive for COVID-19 and became one of the most critical cases in Bacolod City. She survived the disease after being in the hospital for five weeks. Three weeks of that, she was in the ICU,...
NO PHYSICAL DISTANCING -- Dozens of people gather sans minimum physical distancing in front of Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) building on Cabaguio Ave., Davao City. Health authorities have attributed the surge of COVID-19 cases in the region to complacency. (Keith Bacongco/MB/ FILE PHOTO)...
A total of 221 Filipino professors, academics, and education workers from various universities here and abroad signed a unity statement to call for an end to President Duterte's “misrule.” Academics Unite for Democracy and Human Rights The unity statement of the academic sector was released on...
All senior citizens in Pasig City, who were targeted to be immunized, have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Vico Sotto said on Thursday (July 22). Mayor Vico Sotto (PASIG LGU/ MANILA BULLETIN) “Kinilala rin ng nasyonal ang Pasig bilang isa sa unang LGU (local government units)...
Illustration of coronavirus / File Photo One of the new Delta variant cases reported earlier was not a local case in the Bicol region, the Department of Health (DOH)-Bicol clarified on Thursday, July 22. The DOH announced 12 new cases of Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus,...
