The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved on Nov. 17 the country's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mix-and-match trials, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced Friday, Nov. 19. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a Laging Handa briefing, DOST...
The government's pandemic task force has come up with new quarantine and testing protocols for Filipino and foreign travelers coming from green, yellow, and red list territories that will take effect on November 22, 2021. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN In his press briefing on Friday, November 19, acting...
(Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) A total of 2,488 healthcare workers nationwide were able to receive their booster jab, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, Nov. 19. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that some of the booster dose recipients experienced mild adverse...
More than 1.9 million doses of United States-made Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines have been delivered to the country, which brought the current jab supply to 130 million doses. A total of 1,306,000 Moderna were transported by China Airlines flight CI 701 at Ninoy Aquino...
The Las Pinas City government will start administering COVID-19 booster short to the city’s health workers on Saturday (Nov. 20) Mayor Imelda Aguilar said the City Health Office (CHO) recorded a total of 3,700 health workers belonging to the A1 category who were fully vaccinated and scheduled to...
Muntinlupa City’s active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continued to decline and remained below 100 in the last eight days. Based on data by the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO), as of Nov. 18, Muntinlupa’s active COVID-19 cases stood at 68 including seven new cases out of 27,554...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) Metro Manila's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test positivity rate dropped to 2 percent for the first time since the region started testing people who may have been exposed to the infection, the independent research group OCTA said on Friday, Nov. 19. In an update via...
In its continuing support to the government and private sector’s fight against COVID-19, Meralco installed a new primary metering facility connecting the privately-owned Quirino Memorial Medical Center to the utility’s distribution line. This project also involved the retirement of three (3)...
EDITORS DESK Our six-year-old daughter asked us recently, “Mom, can I go outside already?” Over family dinner, one of the conversations my husband and I had was about the news that children are allowed to go outside already. The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of...
The Makati City local government reminded its medical frontliners on Thursday to get their booster shots against COVID-19 in two vaccination sites. Medical frontliners may proceed to Palanan Elementary School (with 400 slots per day) and Ayala Malls Circuit (with 600 slots per day) for their third...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) reminded the public that the administration of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses is not yet open for the general population. “ would...
Following government’s decision to lift the mandatory wearing of face shields, Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles urged local government units to initiate their respective campaigns to ensure the proper disposal of the COVID-19 protection. Rizal Rep. Fidel Nograles Nograles suggested that...
