Re-electionist Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday urged the government to make sure that a majority of the population would get vaccinated against COVID-19 before Christmas. Hontiveros made the call as she expressed her support to the government and private sector’s initiative to conduct a...
To cater to its employees who have contracted coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has opened an isolation facility for them. DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista leads the ribbon cutting ceremony and inspection of the DSWD Isolation...
BIÑAN, Laguna – The city government is no longer requiring face shields in business establishments. In a Facebook post on Monday (Nov. 8), Mayor Arman Dimaguila announced that wearing face shields is now only voluntary as per Executive Order No. 33, Series of 2021. The local government...
Joel Embiid (AFP) Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has tested positive for Covid-19 and is expected to miss several games, US media reports said Monday. ESPN and The Athletic website said the Cameroon international returned a positive Covid-19 test early Monday and had entered the league's...
The Mandaluyong City local government announced on Monday that the management of basketball and Zumba events in the barangay level will be delegated to the respective barangay officials. Metro Manila was placed under the more relaxed Alert Level 2 quarantine classification last Nov. 5 due to the...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Yesterday, Presidential candidate, Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso announced that the City of Manila would be the latest city, following Davao, Ormoc and Iloilo, to turn their back on the highly divisive face shield for public use. Over a year after the IATF made them...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in Metro Manila steadily improves, independent research group OCTA projected that the average number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the region could further decrease to less than 200 by the end of November....
President Duterte appealed to the public anew to do their part in defeating the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by getting vaccinated as more vaccines arrive in the country Monday evening, November 8. President Rodrigo Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the statement as he welcomed the arrival...
Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV considers Vice President Leni Robredo’s “Kalayaan sa (Freedom from) COVID” plan the solution that Filipinos have been waiting for a long time from the government. Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV listens to a presentation by Vice President Leni Robredo...
Active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Pasig have been steadily decreasing in the past weeks as a result of the aggressive vaccination drive for both adults and minors. As of Nov. 7, a total of 124 active cases were recorded in Pasig. A week earlier on Oct. 31, there were 220 cases,...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Monday, Nov. 8 lauded government’s mass vaccination strategy triggering lower infection rate not only in Metro Manila but in the entire country. Addressing employees of the House of Representatives during the first flag raising ceremony in nearly eight months,...
A one-stop-shop mobile app dedicated to Philippine tourism products and services for Chinese mainland visitors was recently launched in China, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement Monday, Nov. 8. Boracay, arguably the crown jewel of Philippine tourism. (Photo by RJ...
