The Manila city government will extend its free coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination program for delivery riders until Friday, Jan. 7. Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced the continuation of the booster deployment during a Facebook livestream on Thursday, Jan. 6....
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases escalate due to the Omicron variant, Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula has urged priests in his archdiocese to continue and strengthen their online Masses. Photo courtesy RCAM "We encourage you to continue and strengthen your on-line Masses," he...
The City of Manila has started deploying coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster shots for workers at the Divisoria market along Claro M. Recto Avenue in Tondo, Manila during a night vaccination drive on Wednesday, Jan. 5. COVID-19 booster shots were deployed to Divisoria market employees including...
Temporary off-site passport services (TOPS) in three malls in Luzon halted their operations due to personnel contracting coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. (FILE PHOTO/JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) Consular service sites that were ordered temporary...
Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula has reached out to the devotees of the Black Nazarene as he asked for their understanding and cooperation following the cancelation of this year’s Traslacion procession and the physical masses at the Quiapo Church (Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene) in...
The plan to expand limited face-to-face classes to more schools in areas classified as “high risk” has been postponed until next week, the Department of Education (DepEd) said. Simulation of face-to-face classes in Comembo Elementary School, Makati in December 2021. (MANNY LLANES / MANILA...
Following the spike in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases throughout the National Capital Region (NCR), the City of Manila logged over 1,000 cases on Wednesday, Jan 5. There are 1,124 active COVID-19 cases in Manila now, the city government said. Manila’s Tondo district holds the highest number...
Independent research group OCTA said on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Metro Manila as well as Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) may start to go down in the middle of the month and towards the end of it if the same trajectory as South Africa would...
Delivery riders can get their COVID-19 booster shots at a drive-thru vaccination site set up at the Bonifacio Shrine beside the Manila City Hall, the city government announced Tuesday. The drive-thru vaccination site will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6. PHOTO COURTESY OF MANILA...
A total of 990 active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were recorded in Manila as of Tuesday, Jan. 4. Majority of infections are concentrated in two of the 16 Manila districts: Tondo with 464 active cases and Sampaloc with 121. A sign posted outside a drugstore along Taft Avenue in Manila...
Amid the spike of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, the OCTA Research group on Tuesday, Jan. 4, said that Metro Manila’s hospital bed occupancy for COVID-19 has increased to 29 percent. (File Photo / AFP / Manila Bulletin) “In seven days, hospital bed occupancy for COVID-19...
Life will be hard for individuals who continuously refused to be vaccinated following the decision of Metro Manila mayors to restrict their movement under Alert Level 3, an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said on Tuesday, Jan. 4. DILG Undersecretary and...
