Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday appealed to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to ensure that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) resolution, now feared by unvaccinated workers, would not be abused by business owners, especially those in the restaurant and in-person...
A Palace official has asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) make vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mandatory for specific workers. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) In his letter to DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Presidential Adviser for...
Senator Richard Gordon on Friday, Oct. 22 told Mohit Dargani, Pharmally’s corporate secretary and treasurer, to just submit the documents being asked by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. As far as he is concerned, Gordon said Mohit and his sister Twinkle Dargani, Pharmally’s president, has...
A medical worker administer a COVID-19 vaccine to a minor at the Las Pinas District Hospital during the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination for minors in Metro Manila on Oct. 22, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) The Philippines has detected 5,823 additional cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on...
The Paranaque City government has started “Bakunahan Para sa YO” (Young Ones) at the Ospital ng Paranaque I (OSPAR) on Friday, Oct. 22. Mayor Edwin Olivarez (Photo courtesy of Paranaque PIO / MANILA BULLETIN) Mar Jimenez, Public Information Office (PIO) chief, said around 80 minors with...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, Oct. 22 said executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation should just produce the documents the Senate blue ribbon committee has ordered subpoenaed. Hontiveros issued the remark after Mohit Dargani, Pharmally’s corporate secretary and treasurer released a...
Taguig City had the second highest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) incidence rate in the National Capital Region (NCR) in the past seven days. This is according to Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research, which published an NCR COVID-19 update on Oct. 21 based on the Department of Health’s Data Drop....
Senator Sonny Angara on Friday, Oct. 21 urged authorities and local governement officials to go the extra mile and accelerate efforts to reach out to the elder population, of which a significant portion of them remains unvaccinated to this day. Citing World Health Organization (WHO) report, Angara...
The government has kicked off the second phase of the pediatric vaccination against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that would cover all localities in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday, Oct. 22. A minor receives a COVID-19 vaccine during the ceremonial vaccination of minors at Cardinal...
A health reform advocate on Friday, Oct. 22, lamented the slow pace of vaccination rollout in the Philippines, (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Former adviser to the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Tony Leachon said the government's new target of vaccinating 1.5 Filipinos daily is a...
Senator Richard Gordon on Friday, Oct. 22 welcomed the result of the investigation of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on the reported 48 “false positive” patients that were tested at the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chapter in Subic. In a 28-page report sent to the PRC last...
Former Vice President and senatorial aspirant Jejomar Binay has backed the League of Provinces of the Philippines' (LPP) call to defer the implementation of the alert system quarantine classification currently used in Metro Manila in other provinces and municipalities. Former Vice President Jejomar...
