The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Region 1 and the La Union Provincial Offices were issued with the “Safety Seal’ in the locality. DILG-Logo These offices were among the 1,128 public offices and 497 private establishments that have been conferred with the seal in La...
BUTUAN CITY - - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has not stopped in providing assistance to displaced and affected workers of Agusan del Sur even as the country is slowly recovering from the impact brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Shown in photo are the DOLE officials assisting the...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- Another form of the Omicron subvariant has become the dominant strain among new U.S. Covid-19 cases, according to the latest estimates released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday. A medical worker collects a swab sample from a man...
BERLIN, Germany -- Germany will relax its Covid-19 travel restrictions during the summer months, so that proof of vaccination, recovery or a negative test result (cumulatively known as the 3G rule) will no longer be required upon entering the country. Germany has therefore joined the last countries...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has already fully vaccinated a total of 4,358 persons in Aklan as of Tuesday, May 24 through its "Bakuna" bus. The vaccine on wheels, a program in partnership of the PRC and local governments, has administered more than 9,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines and boosters in...
The Senate leadership on Thursday (May 26) decided to do away with face masks and to allow face-to-face sessions or committee hearings starting Monday. Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III made the decision upon the advice of Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiiri as the emergency situation...
The Parañaque city government received a donation of 2,000 doses of Moderna vaccines from Aboitiz Foundation Inc. on Thursday, May 26. Mayor Edwin Olivarez and Dr. Jefferson Pagsisihan, medical director of Ospital ng Parañaque (OSPAR) 1 and 2, received the Moderna vaccines during the turnover...
Makati CBD skyline Amid the detection of more transmissible variants of the Covid-19 virus, is there a possibility that a surge in coronavirus cases will happen again in the Philippines? There were some "instances" wherein a rise in Covid-19 cases were observed in the country but not sustained,...
A medical worker prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, the United States, June 18, 2021. (Xinhua/ FILE/ MANILA BULLETIN) A pediatric infectious disease expert urged all eligible Filipinos to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to...
While this year will be the first time that limited in-person graduation and end-of-school-year (ESOY) rites are allowed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Education (DepEd) reminded that the conduct of any related activity should remain “simple and dignified.” (Photo...
Officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, May 25, reminded schools as well as various stakeholders to ensure that the existing protocols are strictly complied with during the conduct of in-person end-of-school-year (EOSY) rites for the school year (SY) 2021-2022. (CLEMS DELA...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to include Taiwan in its global pandemic response plan, pointing out that ignoring it would lead to a gap in efforts to curb Covid-19. Hontiveros, the only opposition lawmaker who won a reelection bid in the May 9,...
