Depsite the obvious challenges presented by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the May 2022 national and local elections must take place, or else the country might find itself in a dangerous scenario. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Retired Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate...
The number of administered vaccines in Manila reached 2.5 million on Thursday. In a Facebook post, the Manila Public Information Office (MPIO) announced that as of 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 30, the city has administered a total of 2,528,840 vaccines. About 1,349,079 individuals have received the first...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday, Oct. 1, discouraged teachers from going on “authorized absence” in order not to disrupt learning continuity in the midst of a pandemic. (Photo from DepEd) “I would advise those who are very interested in this issue, especially our teachers, to...
Sri Lanka on Friday lifted a near six-week lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus but maintained a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties. A street vendor selling facemasks and sanitizers waits for customers along the roadside in Colombo on October 1, 2021, after the...
Finland will begin vaccinating minks on fur farms against Covid-19 after authorities granted temporary approval for an experimental vaccine, the country's regulator said Friday. (AFP / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The conditional usage permit "is valid until the end of December, by which time the...
DOH The country recorded 15,566 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Friday, Oct. 1, the Department of Health (DOH) said. The new cases pushed the nationwide tally to 2,565,487, based on the latest case bulletin. Around 5.1 percent of the case total or 130,268 are active infections....
Or why the world is falling helplessly into the hands of the cult of the amateurs and the social justice warriors who do not know the first thing about justice and fairness CAPED CRUSADER Are most Millennials and Gen Z today social justice warriors? (Freepik.com) You’re not excused from being...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it will be implementing a directive issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) that updated the list of so-called "red, yellow, and green" countries. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the IATF resolution,...
Four specialty hospitals put up by government in Quezon City will suffer nearly P1 billion total cuts in their 2022 budget amid the continued onslaught of the COVID-19. Hospital scene COVID-19 QC Second District Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo lamented the government decision to slash the 2022...
President Duterte urged the public to not get more than the prescribed coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine shots, saying not only are they depriving the people who are yet to get vaccinated, it is bad for the body. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang file photo) Duterte made the statement as the...
CALABARZON COVID UPDATE (OCTA RESEARCH) The surge in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) has slowed down, as each of the five provinces posted a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) one-week negative growth rate and reproduction number of less than 1, independent research group OCTA said...
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo -- Just two percent of the population, or less, have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in half of the countries in Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, Photo by AFP/File Fifteen of the continent's 54 nations have managed to vaccinate at least 10 percent...
