The Mandaluyong City local government announced on Saturday that it has already deployed a total of 847,856 COVID-19 vaccines since the vaccination rollout began last March. As of October 1, the City Health Office said 457,523 residents have been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine and...
San Juan City once again saw a sharp decline in its active COVID-19 cases, Mayor Francis Zamora said on Friday, Oct. 1. In a Facebook post, Zamora said that the city has 498 active COVID-19 cases as of Sept. 30, a 56 percent decline from 1,123 cases last Sept. 15. "But we should not be complacent....
Looting, riots and chaos amid the continuous challenges due to more than a year of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in the country are impossible scenarios, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año assured on Saturday, October 2. Compared to other...
The country received more than 3.3 million doses of Pfizer and Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccines on Friday, October 1, as the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the government to continue prioritizing the vaccination of the elderly and persons with co-morbidities. More than 3.3 million doses of...
Depsite the obvious challenges presented by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the May 2022 national and local elections must take place, or else the country might find itself in a dangerous scenario. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Retired Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate...
The number of administered vaccines in Manila reached 2.5 million on Thursday. In a Facebook post, the Manila Public Information Office (MPIO) announced that as of 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 30, the city has administered a total of 2,528,840 vaccines. About 1,349,079 individuals have received the first...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday, Oct. 1, discouraged teachers from going on “authorized absence” in order not to disrupt learning continuity in the midst of a pandemic. (Photo from DepEd) “I would advise those who are very interested in this issue, especially our teachers, to...
Sri Lanka on Friday lifted a near six-week lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus but maintained a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties. A street vendor selling facemasks and sanitizers waits for customers along the roadside in Colombo on October 1, 2021, after the...
Finland will begin vaccinating minks on fur farms against Covid-19 after authorities granted temporary approval for an experimental vaccine, the country's regulator said Friday. (AFP / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The conditional usage permit "is valid until the end of December, by which time the...
DOH The country recorded 15,566 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Friday, Oct. 1, the Department of Health (DOH) said. The new cases pushed the nationwide tally to 2,565,487, based on the latest case bulletin. Around 5.1 percent of the case total or 130,268 are active infections....
Or why the world is falling helplessly into the hands of the cult of the amateurs and the social justice warriors who do not know the first thing about justice and fairness CAPED CRUSADER Are most Millennials and Gen Z today social justice warriors? (Freepik.com) You’re not excused from being...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it will be implementing a directive issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) that updated the list of so-called "red, yellow, and green" countries. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the IATF resolution,...
