Since March 2020, there have been twice-a-month announcements by the government on the quarantine classification of regions, cities and towns. The Presidential Spokesman announced that an “improving” COVID-19 scenario in the National Capital Region (NCR) prompted a downgrade to normal general...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Another worrisome concern regarding world perception on another critical issue is our "safety" today following the results of a worldwide study done by Global Finance Magazine. The latter had ranked the Philippines at the bottom among 134 countries. Albay...
President Duterte expressed concern about a great imbalance in access to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, saying the pandemic has become an "unforgiving race to immunity" due to the lack of bold, collaborative responses to the situation. President Duterte delivers his Intervention at the...
(Clockwise from top left) Treasure’s Doyoung and So Jung-hwan, model Han Hye-jin, Olympic gold medalist Park Tae-hwan and former volleyball star Kim Yo-han (Instagram, KBS) More Korean celebrities have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as South Korea is trying to control the...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Friday, July 16, that the investigator’s brochures on the four vaccine brands that will be used in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity Vaccine Trial (SVT) have already been under review by its expert panel. (Photo by ALI VICOY/...
A vial of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir. The Department of Health says it has received complaints from patients that some hospitals are overpricing the drug. (AFP/Ulrich Perrey) The Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) said that it is not right to accuse various hospitals in the country of...
Vice President Leni Robredo hopes that the government will be able to speed up, even more, the distribution of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines as a measure against the dreaded Delta variant. Vice President Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero/Manila Bulletin) Robredo made the statement after the Department...
More than 1.6 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine arrived in the Philippines on Friday afternoon, July 16. In this file photo taken on May 7, 2021, Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are seen on a table at a vaccination clinic in Los...
The Foo Fighters’ ongoing tour has been put on hold. The band, in particular, cancelled an upcoming show at The Los Angeles Forum. Said show was supposed to be held Saturday, July 17. On their official Instagram account, the band said “Despite having made every effort to follow CDC Covid...
The management of Festival Mall in Alabang has issued a statement regarding Muntinlupa’s decision to suspend vaccination at the mall on Thursday. “In light of the recent news that Muntinlupa City has temporarily suspended its vaccination operations at Festival Mall, we would like to express our...
DOH/MB The country recorded more than 5,000 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, July 16. The DOH said 5,676 more cases were detected nationwide. The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is now at 1,496,328 with 48,480 or 3.2 percent are still...
A maskless Christmas may be unlikely this year as the country still does not have enough supply of coronavirus vaccine to achieve the target “population protection” by end of the year. “Mukhang made-delay ‘yun (It seems that it will be delayed),” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said...
