Senator Risa Hontiveros urged Malacañang on Wednesday, May 19, to take back the executive order (EO) that lowers tariffs on imported rice, saying this will burden Filipino rice farmers. (Keith Bacongco/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) “I urge Malacañang to recall EO 135. Lowering imported rice...
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Wednesday (May 19) that local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila will soon begin vaccinating economic frontliners under the A4 category. A senior citizen inoculated with AstraZeneca COIVD -19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Paranaque City on...
As the government plans to speed its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) inoculation program, the eighth shipment of Chinese manufacturer Sinovac Biotech in the country will arrive on Thursday morning, May 20, carrying 500,000 doses of procured CoronaVac vaccines. In an advisory Wednesday, May 19, the...
A public health expert on Wednesday, May 19, has backed the government's target to inoculate a significant population in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces to achieve NCR Plus herd immunity. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with ANC, Dr. Tony Leachon said the...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" believes that herd immunity can be achieved in the country by September this year through continuous vaccination. (Photo by Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The city government broke its own record with 15,763 vaccines deployed in a single day on Monday...
The Manila City Health Office has apologized to those who lined up but were not able to receive their Pfizer vaccine during the last day of rollout yesterday (May 18). Residents wait in line to be inoculated at Manila Prince Hotel on Tuesday. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “Kami po ay humihingi ng...
It’s not often that you will see Vice President Leni Robredo having fun since she’s been busy the past year attending to her office’s COVID-19 response, but a lighthearted “Fast Talk” on Teleradyo’s Kapamilya Konek gives everyone a glimpse into the personal life of the country’s...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has warned lawmakers that eliminating all restrictions to foreign ownership of the country’s domestic retail trade would not be a wise option, especially amid an economic crisis due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Hontiveros said Senate Bill No. 1840 or the...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, May 19, all police regional and provincial directors to start coordinating with the Department of Health for the identification of police camps that could be used as vaccination sites amid the...
The United States is seeing its fewest number of deaths from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, official data showed Tuesday. The seven-day moving average of deaths was 545 on May 16, and "the last time our seven-day-average was this low was in March 2020, essentially since the pandemic...
More than 1.5 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been injected into people's arms around the world, six months after the vaccination drive started, according to an AFP count. Buddhist monks are injected with the Sinovac Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Priest Hospital in Bangkok on May...
The government of Singapore is providing free hospitalization to Filipinos with valid permits to stay, Philippine Ambassador Jose Yap said Tuesday. Currently, Yap said only 35 out of the 578 confirmed cases among Filipinos are confined at isolation wards in hospitals while the rest have fully...
