President Duterte has approved moving more areas to stricter community quarantine classifications for the month of August due to the recent surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and to prevent the spread of the dreaded Delta variant. (Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) In a statement,...
The National Capital Region (NCR) will be placed under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to 20 after undergoing a week-long stricter general community quarantine (GCQ) due to the spike in cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). File photo of members of the Philippine...
The country's borders will remain shut to travelers from Indonesia, India, and eight other countries until mid-August as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus fueled by the Delta variant. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN The travel restrictions on the 10 countries has been extended based on a...
To contain the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant, Marikina City Mayor Marcy Teodoro said he and other mayors of Metro Manila pushed for a higher quarantine status. (Marikina City LGU / MANILA BULLETIN) He said such will be needed in order to avoid the surge in COVID-19 cases projected by...
UNITED NATIONS -- Britain warned the United Nations Security Council Thursday that half of coup-wracked Myanmar's population of 54 million could become infected with COVID-19 within the next two weeks. Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a victim of the COVID-19...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel will start offering a third dose of COVID-19 vaccinations to people aged over 60, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday, one of first countries to provide a booster shot. The jabs will begin on Sunday as part of a ''complementary vaccination campaign'' for people...
The city government of Caloocan City inoculated senior citizens with Johnson & Johnson Janssen one-shot vaccine on July 27-28 after claiming their pension at the payout sites. (CALOOCAN PIO/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Bilang ang ating mga senior citizen ay kasama sa pinaka-vulnerable sa sakit, patuloy...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s antigen test came back negative, allaying fears that she might have contracted the virus during her meeting with Senator Richard Gordon, who tested positive for COVID-19, last week. Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Richard Gordon (OVP/Senate of the...
The country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) will likely come up with “some recommendations” next week on the use of coronavirus disease (COVID) booster shots for those fully vaccinated individuals, particularly the country's healthcare workers and those who are immunocompromised. A staff member...
The government may consider limiting the movement of the unvaccinated only when a large percentage of the population becomes fully inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the pandemic task force members at the Malacañang Golf...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Thursday, July 29, advised the government's pandemic task force to carefully study and consider factors before pushing for a law that would prohibit unvaccinated individuals from going out. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III (Alvin Kasiban/MANILA...
Workers belonging to the A4 priority group are inoculated with Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines inside a cinema-turned vaccination hub in a mall on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 (ALI VICOY/MANILA BULLETIN) The target number of people who have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) must be...
