President Duterte said the government would utilize the unused funds under Bayanihan laws to pay for the expenses of returning Filipinos from abroad while they are in quarantine. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his public address on June 21, 2021. (Malacañang photo) During his prerecorded...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III slammed President Duterte's decision to retain the mandatory use of face shields, saying health experts, who recommended it, have yet to prove its effectiveness in lessening COVID-19 infection. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III "Health experts? They have...
President Duterte gave anti-vaxxers two choices: get anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin or leave the country since they don’t want to join the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his public address on June 21, 2021. (Malacañang photo) “Ito ‘yong ayaw...
With the expected arrival of more than 40 million Pfizer-Biontech vaccines in the country this year, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Tuesday, June 22, the need for the local government units (LGUs) to make the necessary preparations even before...
Get vaccinated or else face possible arrest. President Duterte has threatened to order the arrest of the anti-vaxxers or people who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. A health worker prepares to vaccinate a resident of Tondo, Manila during an inoculation drive on June 20, 2021 (Ali...
A member of the Department of Health's Technical Advisory Group said there is a need to keep out the Delta coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant as it is very dangerous. DOH/MB "We need to keep out the Delta variant which is very dangerous," Dr. Edsel Salvana said in a meeting with President...
The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 has advised Filipinos to continue adhering to minimum public health standards, or else risk the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and possibly trigger a devastating outbreak like the one seen in India. DANGEROUS...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. Then it floods, an ocean of problems. Babies are being born smaller, many of them to girls hardly out of puberty. The IQ of Filipino teenagers has been dropping, until it hit rock bottom in a survey of 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries. God...
60 percent more transmissible, with the Philippines logging at least 13 cases, with one death Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana Two months ago, the most horrific scenes of mass cremations were coming out of India. People were dying from lack of oxygen and bodies were washing up on the banks of the River...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Yes, travel outside of the NCR-Plus is now allowed but it cannot be a spontaneous act. A lot of preparation is needed to get all the travel documents together, which will depend on the requirements set by the local government unit (LGU) of your destination. We recently drove to...
President Duterte is still opposed to the resumption of face-to-face classes for now especially in the wake of threats from the contagious Delta coronavirus variant. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)...
President Duterte said he was "constrained" to keep the wearing of face shields mandatory both indoors and outdoors to prevent a disaster that may be caused by the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). President Duterte (Malacañang photo) President Duterte made the statement after...
