National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. acknowledged on Thursday night, May 13 that the entire population of the Philippines would have to be vaccinated if it wants to totally eliminate the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar, Secretary...
After the Philippines recorded its first cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant from India, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has confirmed that the Department of Health (DOH) has recommended the inclusion of two more countries in the list with travel restrictions. DOH Secretary...
President Duterte has placed the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions from May 15 to 31, 2021 following the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). President Duterte at the start of his...
(The author is a Filipina married to an American. She worked for a Top 20 Fortune Oil Company as a Corporate Affairs Field Manager before taking an early retirement package in mid-2020. Before she left for the U.S. in 2006, Marian was the corporate communications head of a major oil company...
She would elicit from her students the best versions of themselves as thinking and aspiring scientists and engineers TEACHING BY EXAMPLE Class ‘79 Section A of Laguna College, with Miss Aurora Baldrias (second row center) and the author (top row third from right) After completing her...
Malacanang will instruct the “subcontractors” hired by the government to speed up the deployment of both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in order to meet the suggested expiry of the jabs, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Thursday. Presidential Spokesman Harry...
It will be extremely difficult to track down and perform contact tracing on the patrons of a Caloocan City resort where coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related health protocols have been gleefully violated. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (Screengrab...
Medical frontliners in the City of Manila have started getting the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the Sta. Ana Hospital on Thursday, May 13. ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN In a statement, the local government said that 210 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been deployed to...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has begun looking for funds for the inoculation program for young teens and for the probable need for a booster vaccination next year. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said on Thursday, May 13, that the government would need around P20 billion for...
Three people engaged in the illegal online selling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rapid test kits have been nabbed in an entrapment operation staged by Philippine National Police-Criminal and Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) members, reports said Thursday, May 13....
A huge batch of Pfizer vaccines--over two million according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr.--is coming to the Philippines later this month. The first batch of Pfizer vaccines in the Philippines arrived on May 10, 2021. (Photo from Bureau of Customs) Galvez, National Task Force (NTF) Against...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said on Thursday that the city is now seeing a very sharp decline in active COVID-19 cases. San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook) "Here in San Juan, from 1,296 on April 12, it's now down to 280 and this is really the effect of the ECQ...
