Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano said downgrading the status of the National Capital Region (NCR) to Alert Level 1 will normalize life and spur the economy. Mayors including Cayetano under the Metro Manila Council signed Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Resolution 22-06 recommending to...
Aurora and Quezon are now classified as “very low risk” for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an OCTA Research fellow said on Saturday, Feb. 26. OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David, in a tweet, said that with its improved COVID-19 indicators, Aurora and Quezon are now under the “very low risk...
'OMJ' hosts (from left) Bea Binene, Arnell Ignacio and Tuesday Niu In the “Oh Isyu” segment of "Oh My Job!", Labor Attache Melchor Dizon of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office of Hong Kong will lead the discussion on the plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in that country. The...
The Quezon City government will start to conduct area-based COVID-19 vaccination to cater to more residents in the city. According to the city government on Friday, Feb. 25, it will temporarily close down all regular vaccination sites in the city on Feb. 26. The QC Task Force Vax to Normal will set...
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Mongolia registered 517 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 464,394, the country's health ministry said Friday. Meanwhile, four more people aged over 60 died from the viral disease in the past day, raising the...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan recorded 1,122 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Friday. With the new infections, the overall number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen to 1,506,450 in the Asian country, said the NCOC, a department...
The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded 1,671 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, Feb.25, bringing the total number of active cases to 55,140. This is slightly lower compared to the recorded number of COVID-19 cases last Thursday, Feb. 24, which is at 1,745 cases. DOH It is worth noting...
K-pop boy band Seventeen member Vernon, girl group Billlie’s Haram and Sheon, actress Shin Hye-sun, actor-idol Lee Jun-young and Mamamoo’ Solar have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vernon tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 25, a week after Seventeen’s Wonwoo fully...
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax for use in the vaccination of children aged six to 11 in the European Union (EU) on Thursday, Feb. 24. Spikevax is now awaiting conditional marketing...
One of the stars of Netflix’s hit Korean zombie series “All of Us Are Dead” has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Yoon Chan-young, who plays Lee Cheong-san in “All of Us Are Dead,” got a positive result using a self-test kit on Feb. 24. Yoon Chan-young as Lee Cheong-san...
The government's pandemic task force has amended the metrics that will be used to determine what alert level would be raised in provinces, highly urbanized cities, and independent component cities, Malacañang announced Thursday, Feb. 24. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan....
TALISAY CITY, Cebu — Despite being thousands of miles away from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Hong Kong, Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday, Feb. 24, assured that she is in close contact with organizations and private partners there to ensure no one gets left behind. A police officer...
