Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng A) Just in case you’ve been hiding under a stone, or burying your head underground, one of the more amusing news of the week that just passed was the ‘We don’t need it anymore… oh yes, we still need it’ flip-flopping on...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a giant shadow on the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. With less than a month left, anxiety over the possibility that foreign athletes and journalists could be carriers of the emerging deadly Delta variant has been added to the hosts’ long list of...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has funded a study that will look into Philippine medicinal plants, which have inhibitory properties against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2) which causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (PIXABY) In a Facebook post,...
The government should start considering buying more effective and cheaper vaccines to inject to the Filipino population to ensure better protection against the COVID-19, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Saturday, June 26. Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine (AFP/MANILA BULLETIN) In a radio...
With the continued rollout of the government’s inoculation program against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Education (DepEd) reminded that the use of schools as vaccination sites should be approved by its local officials first. The government continues to roll out its COVID-19...
DOH/MB The country has recorded 6,871 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Saturday, June 26, bringing the cumulative total to 1,391,911. The newly detected cases brought the active cases nationwide to 53,447, the Department of Health (DOH) reported. Of the active cases 89.4 percent are...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) reiterated its commitment to help the government in the rollout of its vaccination program against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The Kabaka Center in Pandacan, Manila is one of the six 'Bakuna Centers' of Philippine Red Cross in Metro Manila. (Photo from PH Red...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. declared Saturday, June 26, that the country's vaccination program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is close to achieving the standards set by Israel, one of the few countries with a successful COVID-19 response. (From left to right) Israeli experts Adam...
FILE PHOTO The country has so far not yet recorded any local case of the Delta coronavirus variant, an official of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) said on Saturday, June 26. Based on the genomic biosurveillance, the country still has 17 cases of the Delta variant and all of them were “incoming...
The first batch of Moderna vaccines procured by the national government and private sector from the United States will arrive on Sunday night, June 27, while an additional one million doses of Sinovac vaccines from China will be delivered on Monday, June 28, according to a task force overseeing the...
Students, faculty members, and staff of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASMPH) have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as limited face-to-face classes begin. (Photo from ASMPH) A total of 537 clerks, interns, students, and faculty members of the ASMPH...
Party-list Anakpawis on Saturday, June 26, lambasted a proposed P118-billion ($2.43 billion) arms deal between the Philippines and the United States as ‘’immoral, callous and inappropriate.’’ The Armed Forces of the Philippines receives weapons and defense equipment worth P183 million from...
