Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate Health and Demography Committee, on Monday, March 14 hailed the contributions of Filipino genomic sequencing experts in the fight against Covid-19 during the recent launch of the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center...
The San Juan City local government announced on Monday, March 14, that they will once again deploy food packs to its residents as part of its effort to help them recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. In a Viber message to Manila Bulletin, Zamora said that a total of 45,000 food packs will be...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) reported 564 more people who contracted Covid-19. Sunday's figure pushed the Philippines' overall tally of confirmed cases to 3,670,739, of which, only 46,537 remain as active cases, based on the data shown in the agency's official website. The regions with the...
A member of K-pop boy band The Boyz has tested positive for Covid-19 amid a surge in Omicron variant cases in South Korea. IST Entertainment, The Boyz’s agency, announced on March 13 that member New has been diagnosed with the disease. The Boyz member New (Instagram) It said on March 12, The...
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil registered 45,020 new Covid-19 cases and 389 related deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its total caseload to 29,350,134 and national death toll to 654,945, the Ministry of Health said Saturday. Many cities and states eased masking and social distancing requirements...
BEIJING, China – Millions of people across China endured lockdowns on Sunday as virus cases doubled to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of the country's 'zero-Covid' approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years. A nationwide surge in cases has seen authorities...
Vaccination in Pateros (Pateros municipal government) An official of the Department of Health (DOH) said that the conduct of the 4th Covid-19 national vaccination drive or the “Bayanihan, Bakunahan” campaign has been extended to further increase the country’s vaccination coverage. “So yung...
The Muntinlupa City government has recorded zero new Covid-19 cases on March 12 as its total number of active patients continued to decrease. Based on data from the City Health Office, Muntinlupa City had no new Covid-19 cases on March 12, bringing the total confirmed cases to 39,848 for March 11...
PARIS, France – France is offering a fourth dose of a coronavirus vaccine to people older than 80 who had their booster more than three months ago, the prime minister said Saturday. In this file photo taken on February 17, 2021 a nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly patient...
Amid the continuing surge in Covid-19 cases in South Korea, two more K-pop stars have tested positive for the virus. K-pop boy band TOMORROW X TOGETHER member Soobin, 21, and girl group Brave Girls’ Minyoung, 31, have been diagnosed with Covid-19 on March 12. TXT's Soobin (left) and Brave Girls'...
Taguig City’s total weekly new Covid-19 cases have increased after recording successive declines. In a report, the Taguig City government data showed the city had 148 new Covid-19 cases from March 4 to 10, or an average of 21 cases per day, an increase of 61 cases or 70 percent from 87 new cases...
(RIO DELUVIO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) More higher education institutions (HEIs) are expected to resume face-to-face classes next school year, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Saturday, March 12, said. “Ang maraming eskwelahan na mag-face-to-face ay next school year, yun ang...
