As part of its aggressive COVID-19 booster vaccination program, over 20,000 COVID-19 booster shots have been administered to individuals belonging to the A1 (frontliners), A2 (senior citizens), and A3 (persons with comorbidities) in Manila as of Friday, Nov. 26. A total of 23,872 doses have been...
Caritas Philippines The Caritas Philippines urged the public to support the government’s three-day national vaccination program, saying this will help in curbing the negative effects brought about by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the...
The Paranaque City government received 500 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) for use by its medical frontliners in the fight against COVID-19. Mayor Edwin Olivarez thanked the Paranaque City Eagles Club for donating on Thursday (Nov. 25) the 500 PPEs for the use of the medical staff of...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Scientists in South Africa said Thursday they had detected a new COVID-19 variant with a large number of mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers. The number of daily infections in Africa's hardest-hit country has increased tenfold since the start...
SURVIVOR’S TALE Survivor's Tale By NIKKI REGIO (The author is a 38-year-old full-time mother of two doing a little bit of everything. She lives in Parañaque City.) May 7, 2020 was when we lost my mother-in-law to cancer. That was when COVID-19 cases were increasing and lockdowns were being...
Results of the virgin coconut oil (VCO) trial at Philippine General Hospital (PGH) showed that hospitalized coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients did not significantly benefit from VCO as an adjunct therapy. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) The results of the VCO clinical trial at the PGH were presented by...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is encouraging its program beneficiaries to get inoculated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) The DSWD said as an expression of support to the upcoming National Vaccination Days in the country from Nov. 29 to Dec....
Mayor Imelda Aguilar announced on Thursday that 18 out of the 20 barangays in Las Pinas City are now free of COVID-19. Aguilar said the two remaining barangays with COVID-19 cases are Pamplona Tres with two and Manuyo Dos with one. She said the discipline shown by residents brought the number of...
The number of COVID-19 vaccines deployed in Mandaluyong City has already breached the 960,000 mark, the local government announced on Wednesday, Nov. 24. According to the report of the City Health Office (CHO), a total of 960,961 vaccines have been deployed in Mandaluyong. The CHO said 510,607...
The chairperson of the country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) on Thursday, Nov. 25, rallied behind the Department of Health’s (DOH) bid to ask the guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) to determine if the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the country has already been...
(AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines is looking at vaccinating about 13.5 million children aged five to 11 once the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program covers that specific age group. “We have about 13.5 million targeted five to 11 years old individuals,” said Department of...
The Department of Education (DepEd) and its attached agencies are set to receive a P629.8 billion budget for its National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2022 which is six percent higher than last year’s budget. Pilot face-to-face classes started in Laserna Integrated School in Nabas, Aklan on Nov....
