President Duterte’s economic manager said the government’s efforts should be geared at accelerating the country’s vaccine deployment and maintaining strict border controls as the quick-spreading Delta variant poses a threat in the Philippines. Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T....
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is conducting intelligence information to verify the alleged assassination plot hatched by the New People's Army (NPA) against the spokespersons of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). media In a statement Friday, the...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
A soldier wearing a face mask holds on his weapon as he guards an empty street following the lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manila, April 24, 2020. (REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) welcomed the pronouncement of the Octa...
(PIXABAY) Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Executive Director Cynthia Saloma on Wednesday, July 7, said it is difficult to say now if Metro Manila may become resilient to the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the next few months. "Whether or not we are Delta resilient, mahirap po...
An expert from OCTA Research on Wednesday, July 7, said Metro Manila may become resilient to the Delta coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant in a few months with the ongoing vaccination rollout. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with ANC, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said each local...
FILE PHOTO The Beta variant is the most "common" variant among the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive samples that were subjected to genome sequencing, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “ na po ang pinaka karaniwan ngayon na nakikita sa biosurveillance, umaabot po ng 21.1 percent...
The government is inclined to keep enforcing stricter border control measures to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants in the country. MORANDANTE_07062021-3 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases...
An infectious disease expert reminded the public that minimum public health standards would work against all coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variants amid concerns surrounding the emergence of the Lambda variant. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) The Lambda variant, also known as the C.37 variant, was first...
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, July 6, that the Philippines is monitoring the development of the fast-spreading Lambda variant, which was first detected in Peru and is raising concerns due to it being highly transmissible. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, July 5, reported the detection of additional cases of two Delta (B.1.617.2) variant cases. DOH/MB Together with the University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), and the University of the Philippines - National Institutes of Health...
It was a flight filled with pregnant women, one for the Guinness. The repatriation of distressed overseas Filipinos reached another milestone following the arrival of a chartered flight from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a total of 108 expectant mothers on board on Thursday, July 1. Some of...
