For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it has zero case so far. PNP chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said that based on the latest data of their Health Service, there is neither new nor active case in the PNP as of Tuesday, April 12....
FAIRFAX - After a high-profile libel case in London, actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard are headed back to court Monday, this time in the United States, for a blockbuster defamation case revolving about allegations of spousal abuse. The case pitting the 58-year-old Depp against Heard,...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan will move away from a zero-Covid policy and instead focus on tackling the most severe infections in an effort to live with the coronavirus, its health minister said Thursday. The decision leaves China -- and its financial hub Hong Kong -- as the only major economy...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez announced that 11 barangays in the city are now free from Covid-19 based on the report by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) and the City Health Office (CHO) on Wednesday, April 6. Olivarez said the remaining communities with Covid-19 cases are...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said for the 15th straight day, the city’s lone public hospital, the Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH) has recorded zero Covid-19 admission. According to Rubiano, PCGH officer-in-charge Dr. Jhon Victor De Gracia, reported for the past 15 straight days, the...
Nothing is certain, according to an official of the Department of Health (DOH), as the possibility of having another spike in Covid-19 cases is always present. Shoppers flock to bargain stores along Ilaya Street in Divisoria, Binondo, Manila, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) In a press...
Are we endemic yet? CLINICAL MATTERS Six hundred thousand new Covid-19 cases in one day in South Korea! Nearly 300,000 in Germany! Almost 200,000 in Vietnam! These numbers almost sound made up. Unimaginable. While many people were apoplectic at the nearly 39,000 cases we had in January 2022, the...
Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Thursday, March 24, called for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to file a criminal case against former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for failing to pay his family’s P203-billion estate tax debt. 1Sambayan lead convenor Antonio...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Tuesday, March 22, contested the cyber libel case filed against him by Vice Mayor Iyo Bernardo, denying that his comments were libelous. “Obviously I don’t think I said anything libelous...I didn’t post anything online, say anything online. That was...
DOH There is a possibility that the Department of Health (DOH) will once again release the Covid-19 case bulletin on a daily basis if the country will experience a spike in coronavirus infections again. If that happens, the case bulletin will still follow the current format—which is highlighting...
An actor was arrested by members of the Tagaytay City Police Station (CPS) for allegedly physically assaulting his girlfriend in a hotel on Friday, March 18. According to a press release from the Police Regional Office 4A (PRO 4A), the suspect was identified as Keith Thompson, an actor and a...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has defended its move to release the Covid-19 case bulletin weekly as this is one of the ways for the public to “learn to live with the virus.” “This was a policy decision. This was a decision made by the government because we saw the benefit in revising and...