All COVID-19 vaccination sites in Valenzuela City will be closed on Dec. 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, Jan. 1, and 2, 2022, the city government announced on Tuesday, Dec. 21. The local government said all individuals scheduled for their second vaccine dose on the said dates may come on the new schedule. The...
Education Secretary Leonor Briones strongly encouraged parents to get their children vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) noting that this will play a very crucial role in the resumption of face-to-face classes in schools that offer basic education nationwide. (Photo from DepEd) In...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Philippines still needs to fully vaccinate at least nine million Filipinos against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to hit its inoculation target for this...
The municipality of Pateros in Metro Manila is still coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-free in the last three weeks. This is according to Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research who released the latest COVID-19 tally for the National Capital Region. The Pateros municipal hall (Pateros municipal government)...
Metro Manila, including 15 of its local government units (LGUs), are now classified under the “very low risk” classification of coronavirus disease (COVID-19 while two of its LGUs remained at the “low risk” classification, said the OCTA Research group. (File Photo / Unsplash) In its latest...
The Makati City local government reported on Monday, Dec. 20, a steady decline in COVID-19 cases in the city, with just 19 active cases on record. According to the Makati Health Department (MHD), the city has also tallied 44,171 recoveries and 986 deaths. Makati City Mayor Abby Binay reminded her...
The Pasay City government has recorded only one active case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Dec. 20. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the single active case reported by the City Health Office (CHO) was the lowest recorded number for the year. Rubiano said the city has two active cases of...
Two international travelers, both asymptomatic, are the first cases of this variant CLINICAL MATTERS On Dec. 15, 2021, the Department of Health reported the first two cases of the Omicron variant among incoming travelers. The first case was a returning 48-year-old overseas Filipino male from...
A total of 2,127,201 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been deployed in Caloocan City as of Dec. 17, the city government announced on Monday, Dec. 20. The City Health Department reported that 1,107,562 individuals received their first jabs while 990,771 were fully vaccinated. Also, 28,868 health care...
The government has administered more than 2.5 million doses during the second round of the "Bayanihan Bakunahan" in some areas from Dec. 15 to 18, an official from the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, Dec. 20. Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site...
President Duterte turned to his trusty jokes and punchlines to make typhoon "Odette" victims in Cebu laugh and perhaps forget about their plight, even for a little while. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the distribution of government aid to typhoon victims in Cebu on Dec. 19, 2021....
The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 263 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Monday, Dec. 20. DOH/MB Monday's update brought the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic to 2,837,730. Of this, DOH said that 9,592 were active cases or 0.3 percent of the...
