Gabriela Party-list on Tuesday, July 19, pushed for heftier penalties--including jail time of 12 years--on employers found violating the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Law. (Photo by Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN) House Bill (HB) 2126, which seeks to criminalize OSH violations, has been...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killing a health worker and two policemen -- the latest deaths in a dangerous campaign to eradicate the disease. Pakistan is one of two countries, alongside neighbouring Afghanistan, where polio remains...
PYONGYANG, North Korea-- The number of fevered persons in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reached more than 1.2 million by Sunday evening, and 50 of them have died of fever, the Korean Central News Agency reported Monday. About 392,920 more persons with fever were reported on...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea announced 21 new "fever" deaths Saturday and said more than half a million people had been sickened nationwide, two days after confirming its first cases of Covid-19. Despite activating its "maximum emergency quarantine system" to slow the spread of disease through...
NEW YORK, United States -- The United States has crossed the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, the White House said on Thursday, as the nation seeks to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge. "Today, we mark a tragic milestone," President Joe Biden said in a...
WASHINGTON, United States – The bells at Washington National Cathedral rang out 1,000 times Monday, with each toll representing 1,000 deaths from Covid-19, as the United States closed in on the grim milestone of almost one million Covid dead. The National Cathedral The United States has...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The Covid-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday -- nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease. The World Health Organization's long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused...
Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Director Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, on Friday, April 22, said that a huge percentage of healthcare takes place outside hospitals. In a webinar held by the University of the Philippines (UP), Legaspi stressed the importance of well-established primary care facilities...
A local association partnered with a non-governmental organization (NGO) to halve road crash deaths, or even reduce fatalities to zero, by the end of this decade. The Vehicle Inspection Centers Operators Association of the Philippines (VICOAP) teamed up with Project C.A.R.E.S. (Community Activities...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, April 4, a total of 2,679 new COVID-19 cases in the past week. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Monday's weekly case bulletin was recorded from March 28 to April 3. There was one additional case tagged under critical and severe cases. According to the...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, March 28, a total of 2,726 new Covid-19 cases recorded in the past week. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15, 2022 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. (ALI...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, March 21 that it recorded 3,572 new Covid-19 cases in the past week. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15, 2022 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. (ALI...
