More than 860,000 doses of United States-made Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine were delivered to the country on Saturday night, Nov. 6, bringing the total jab supply to 110 million doses. The shipment carrying 866,970 doses of government-procured shots arrived at Ninoy Aquino...
More than 20,000 minors in the city of Manila have received their first dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Saturday, Nov. 6. (Manila PIO photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Based on the city's bulletin, a total of 22,165 minors including those with comorbidities have received their...
Vice presidential aspirant Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Sunday reiterated his call for concerned government agencies to exert more efforts at further raising public awareness and confidence on COVID-19 vaccines, insisting that vaccination can lead toward achieving herd immunity and a return...
This contemporary artist has enough pieces to present in three separate exhibitions, but she is in no hurry. Meanwhile, she is filming a documentary on her husband Elmer Borlongan doing a mural about the Battle of Mactan EGO Self-portrait , monoprint (kitchen lithography, graphite, watercolor,...
As part of its preparations for the pilot implementation of limited face-to-face classes to start this month, the Department of Education (DepEd) held an orientation with the 100 identified school implementers and their instructional leaders on the teaching-learning component. Tamulaya Elementary...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The surge of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant is slowing down in most parts of the country, including Metro Manila, but infections are spreading fast across two small towns in Apayao and Cagayan, independent...
Education Secretary Leonor underscored the need to prepare a “new breed” of teachers who will be trained to manage the challenges and changes in the education sector after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Photo taken at Agtangao Elementary School in Bangued, Abra last June 2021....
By Pablo A. Tariman In December 2021, my first book of poetry, Love, Life, and Loss : Poems during the Pandemic , will be off the press. This month, I will debut as a contributing poet in the Singapore-published anthology called The Best of Asian Poetry 2021 . I can’t believe I will finally be a...
An alliance of health professionals on Saturday, Nov. 6, urged the national government to improve the contact tracing system in the country as Metro Manila eased to Alert Level 2. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) The National Capital Region (NCR) was placed under a more relaxed Alert Level 2 on Nov....
Shoppers flock along Ylaya in Divisoria Market on Oct. 17, 2021 as the Metro Manila eases to Alert Level 3 for COVID-19. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) The Philippines logged 2,656 fresh cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Saturday, Nov. 6, with active cases still below 40,000. The total number of...
Incentivize, not penalize. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Vice President Leni Robredo has pitched this strategy in connection with proposals to make vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mandatory among Filipinos. Robredo, who has been in Negros Occidental since...
A new strategy to ramp up the national vaccination program is in the offing. Authorities will bring the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in the barangays as the country faces the herculean challenge of ramping up the program and enticing more people to get inoculated in the areas...
