The Las Pinas City government suspended its COVID-19 vaccination for three days from Dec. 30 to Jan. 1. Mayor Imelda Aguilar said the suspension was made to give all the health frontline workers -- the doctors, nurses and vaccinators -- time to spend the New Year celebration with their families....
Shoppers flock along Ylaya in Divisoria Market on Oct. 17, 2021 at a time when Metro Manila was under alert level 3. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) The Philippines is experiencing a sharp rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases as the Department of Health (DOH) reported nearly 3,000 cases during the...
President Duterte's soaring approval rating is testament to the "responsiveness" of his administration this late into his tenure. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles had this to say Friday, Dec. 31 as he highlighted the...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III temporarily closed down basketball courts starting on Dec. 31 as he expressed alarm over the sudden increase in the number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the municipality. Ponce held an emergency meeting on New Year’s Eve together with...
Metro Manila’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) reproduction number has increased to 2.19, the region’s highest tally since July 2020, said the OCTA Research group on Friday, Dec. 31. (File Photo / Unsplash) “The reproduction number in the National Capital Region (NCR) increased to 2.19 as of...
Malacañang has reminded the public to play their part in preventing the further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), saying nobody wanted to start the new year with a high positivity rate of the virus. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Cabinet...
"Hindi namin tatantanan 'yan (We will not leave this alone)." This was Malacañang's assurance to the public, saying it will prosecute anyone who was involved in the case a returning Filipina who was able to cut quarantine through her supposed connections and went to a party in Poblacion, Makati...
Why did the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) retain the country’s alert level 2 status despite the "concerning" rise daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19)? (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) According to Cabinet Secretary and IATF Spokesperson Karlo...
The Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Ermita, Manila is ready to accommodate over 100 returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) after being inspected by the Department of Health (DOH) and the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ). About 104 ROFs positive for coronavirus disease...
To counter the Omicron variant, the National Task Force (NTF) Against the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) will adopt an enhanced version of the strategy that was used to beat the Delta variant. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. Under the said strategy, NTF chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. said the...
The vaccination rate among tertiary students and higher education institution (HEI) personnel continued to scale up before the year 2021 ends, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said. (Image courtesy of CHED) CHED Chairman Popoy De Vera, in a statement issued Dec. 30, said that vaccination...
Over 4.7 million workers in the formal and informal sectors who have been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic received aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) this year. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III leads the payout of salaries to 1,500 beneficiaries under the Tulong...
