Park-goers can now visit three popular sites in the historic Walled City of Intramuros and Rizal Park in Manila starting Thursday, Sept. 16, as they reopen their doors to the public but at a limited capacity and shortened operating hours. Fort Santiago, Intramuros (Photo from Department of Tourism)...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The reproduction number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Metro Manila was down to 1.34 from 1.39, but average daily cases was still more than 5,000, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said on Wednesday, Sept. 15. The reproduction numner refers to...
Anti-narcotics operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested five men and dismantled a drug den where P102,000 worth of ‘shabu’ were seized in a buy-bust operation in Sampaloc, Manila on Tuesday, Sept. 14. PDEA Regional...
Who says the dolomite beach at the Manila Bay is eroding? For Environment Undersecretary Jonas Leones, the dolomite sand are still there and the only reason why they appear missing is that the seawater is rising up. Leones practically rejected the observations made by Oceana and the University of...
Support for the promising "Bakuna Bubble" proposal of Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion continues to snowball. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion (Photo from Go Negosyo Facebook page) Over 1,000 business...
Shorter curfew hours will be implemented when the National Capital Region shifts to general community quarantine (GCQ) with an Alert Level 4 classification, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) disclosed on Tuesday, Sept. 14. File photo (Maria Tan/AFP) From the 8 p.m. to 4 a.m....
World Health Organization Representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN) An official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that it is not yet the right time to ease the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Metro Manila even if more than half of...
Interzonal leisure travel has been allowed by the government's pandemic task force for Metro Manila residents as the National Capital Region is set to be placed under Alert Level 4, the second highest classification in the new lockdown scheme, from September 16 to 30. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Philippine government is looking at the possibility of vaccinating the general adult population against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) once there is “a stable vaccine supply” by next month. In his taped public address aired on Tuesday, Sept. 14, President Duterte said that the general...
The capacity of Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital (JJASGH), one of Manila’s district hospitals, reached critical level on Monday night (Sept. 13). (MANILA.GOV.PH) In an advisory, the hospital said its patients have outnumbered its beds, while its emergency room and holding tents are...
UPDATED: October 1, 2021 Follow the author on Twitter: @argyllcyrus_MB The government's pandemic task force has finally issued the guidelines on the pilot implementation of the Alert Levels System for coronavirus (COVID-19) response in Metro Manila in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus and...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is now on track for the nationwide expansion of the massive tree-planting project, Annual Million Trees Challenge (AMTC), nearly five years after it was launched. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, MWSS will hold the Annual Million Tree Challenge...
