The San Juan City local government, together with various government agencies, awarded on Friday safety seal certifications to compliant businesses and establishments. (Screenshot from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook Live) The event was attended by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, Department of...
The Pateros municipal government has launched an express registration through texting for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination to encourage more people to sign up. Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III (Pateros Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III announced the additional...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reports additional 6,686 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, while close to 200 people were confirmed to have died due to the viral illness on Friday, June 11. The new infections raised the country’s total to 1,300,349. Of the total figure, 4.7 percent...
Fr.Vic Calvo of Letran (Photo from Vic Calvo Facebook) The possibility of staging skills challenge events in basketball and volleyball is expected to be the topic of the NCAA Management Committee (MANCOM) after the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) issued its latest...
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, June 11, appealed to telecommunication companies, local government units, as well as homeowners associations to speed up the construction of necessary infrastructure to provide internet access, especially in areas with weak or without signals. Senator Grace Poe (Senate...
The Bureau of Customs - Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) has cleared the three latest importations of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines totalling 3,074,410 doses, which arrived between June 9 and 10. (Photo from BOC) The first importation consisting of 111,150 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccines arrived...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) appealed to the public not to lie about their health condition for them to immediately get vaccinated against coronavirus disease...
DOH/MB Hospitals in Visayas and Mindanao were asked to increase their bed capacity for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients amid the spike in virus infections, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, June 11. DOH Undersecretary Abdullah Dumama said public hospitals were...
The increase in the number of infections in Mindanao has decelerated, according to experts studying the coronavirus pandemic in the country. (MANILA BULLETIN/ FILE PHOTO) In its monitoring report issued on Friday, June 11, the OCTA Research Group reported that the rise in coronavirus disease...
The National Capital Region (NCR) Plus may not yet be ready to ease its quarantine status to the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), the least restrictive of the four risk classifications imposed by the government to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Santi, the sanitation robot, is deployed...
As far as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is concerned, there is no reason to postpone the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB "Postponement of the elections is simply not in the cards," Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez said in virtual press briefing Friday, June 11. "It will be in everybody's best...
Even "stars" need to get inoculated from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Actor Joross Gamboa receives his first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine during the immunization of movie industry workers at the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) headquarters in Makati City on June 11, 2021....
