The Department of Health (DOH) urged all eligible Filipinos to receive their COVID-19 vaccine as it offers protection against the variants of coronavirus, particularly the Delta variant. (Ali Vicoy/MANILA BULLETIN) DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said most people who developed the severe...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion urged the government to make "bold moves" like limiting the movement of the unvaccinated population to prevent the further spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go...
President Duterte has asked Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr. to accommodate the "desperate calls" of some local government units (LGUs) for additional coronavirus (COVID-19) cases due to the surge of cases in different areas in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte (MANILA BULLETIN/ROBINSON...
“Together, we shall fight this pandemic with the same fervor as our campaign against illegal drugs, criminality, insurgency, and corruption in high places and entrenched parochial interests." This was what President Duterte vowed in his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year—to...
President Duterte asked local government units (LGUs) to come up with a "more sane" method in vaccinating their constituents during rainy days as he noted they let the people queue in the flood for their anti-coronavirus (COVID-19) shot. President Duterte tells local government units (LGUs) to be...
The Philippines is in a better situation compared to other countries in terms of vaccination efforts, according to President Duterte. A senior citizen receives a J&J Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at the Justo Lucban Elementary School in Manila on July 21, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) As more...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. lauded medical frontliners and local government unit (LGU) officials on Saturday, July 24, for continuing the inoculation program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) even with the incessant rains caused by southwest monsoon (habagat) and enhanced by typhoon...
The local economy will likely destroyed if Metro Manila will placed anew on the most stringent lockdown in the face of the coronavirus threat, according to Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion. Manila residents line up for the second dose of coronavirus vaccine outside a...
Responders from different units queing for registration and vital signs monitoring prior to vaccination at the Dream Zone, Provincial Capitol compound in Batangas City, July 16. (Joenald M. Rayos/MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines recorded its highest daily vaccination rate last Thursday, July 22,...
The Mandaluyong City local government announced on Friday that the city has already deployed more than 380,000 vaccines to its constituents amid the growing threat of the COVID-19 Delta variant. (Photo from Mandaluyong PIO) According to the City Health Office (CHO), a total of 383,424 vaccines have...
Better keep your coronavirus vaccination cards safe since you might need the document in your next trip abroad. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP) The government has already identified three documents that could show proof of vaccination of travelers arriving from "green countries" so they would...
The San Juan City local government marked the 43rd National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week by giving due recognition to persons with disabilities (PWD) in the city. (Photo from Patrick Garcia) San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, together with city government officials and staff,...
