The Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,131 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, March 14. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases.(FILE PHOTO BY ALI VICOY / MANILA...
Insurance claims related to the pandemic reached P16.71 billion in the past two years, with life coverages accounting for more than half of the payouts, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. In a report to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the Insurance Commission said 23 percent or P3.89...
The local government of Paranaque City recorded only three new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, March 13, the lowest tally since the pandemic began, Mayor Edwin Olivarez said Monday. Olivarez made the announcement during the Monday regular flag raising ceremony held at the city hall quadrangle, sponsored...
Three members of K-pop girl group Red Velvet have been diagnosed with Covid-19 while two more members of boy band Seventeen have fully recovered. SM Entertainment announced on March 14 that Red Velvet members Irene, Joy and Yeri tested positive for Covid-19 over the weekend. (Clockwise from top...
Former Vice President and senatorial aspirant Jejomar Binay said on Monday, March 14, that he is eyeing to introduce amendments to the Local Government Code to further empower local government units (LGUs). Binay, who served as Makati City mayor before being elected vice president, said that the...
The chairman of the House Committee on Social Services is calling for the formulation of a true-blue integrated approach to the worsening fuel price crisis. This, as Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas expressed fears that the current fuel price woes would cause another "disruption" on the...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate Health and Demography Committee, on Monday, March 14 hailed the contributions of Filipino genomic sequencing experts in the fight against Covid-19 during the recent launch of the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center...
The San Juan City local government announced on Monday, March 14, that they will once again deploy food packs to its residents as part of its effort to help them recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. In a Viber message to Manila Bulletin, Zamora said that a total of 45,000 food packs will be...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) reported 564 more people who contracted Covid-19. Sunday's figure pushed the Philippines' overall tally of confirmed cases to 3,670,739, of which, only 46,537 remain as active cases, based on the data shown in the agency's official website. The regions with the...
A member of K-pop boy band The Boyz has tested positive for Covid-19 amid a surge in Omicron variant cases in South Korea. IST Entertainment, The Boyz’s agency, announced on March 13 that member New has been diagnosed with the disease. The Boyz member New (Instagram) It said on March 12, The...
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil registered 45,020 new Covid-19 cases and 389 related deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its total caseload to 29,350,134 and national death toll to 654,945, the Ministry of Health said Saturday. Many cities and states eased masking and social distancing requirements...
BEIJING, China – Millions of people across China endured lockdowns on Sunday as virus cases doubled to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of the country's 'zero-Covid' approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years. A nationwide surge in cases has seen authorities...
