Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the administration of presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. needs to increase government revenues while eliminating wasteful expenditures to get ahead of the country’s debt problem. After the Bureau of the Treasury reported...
DOH The Philippines continues to see fewer number of Covid-19 cases as the daily number of infections drop below 150, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday, May 13. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the country’s current daily case figure already “breached”...
COVID-19 virus2 The Department of Health (DOH) has announced the presence of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 in the country, involving 14 individuals. “We have detected 14 individuals with BA.2.12.1,” said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press briefing on Friday, May 13. Of...
Empowering stakeholders in the regions will make way for a progress on a national scale, according to Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Undersecretary for Research and Development Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara. Igniting the passion to serve and deliver STI services to the region....
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has expressed its gratitude to the country’s health workers for their service amid the ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement on Thursday, May 12, DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the health workers are “the backbone of our...
United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken has congratulated presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for his victory in the recent 2022 elections, saying the US is willing to work with Marcos to strengthen the alliance between the two countries. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and...
Incumbent Education Secretary Leonor Briones welcomed on Wednesday, May 11, the possibility of vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte leading the Department of Education (Deped). Education Secretary Leonor Briones / DepEd / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN She made the statement the...
Senator Cynthia A. Villar today (May 11) said she is grateful for the appreciation and recognition given to her Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) given by Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Carlos ‘Sonny’ Dominguez. Dominguez said last month that Villar’s RTL is among the government's...
Vaccination in Muntinlupa (Photo from Muntinlupa PIO) The national government is still aiming to fully vaccinate at least eight to nine million Filipinos against Covid-19 by the end of Duterte's administration in June, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “If our target is 77 million hanggang sa...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) More than 7,000 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 in the different temporary vaccination sites that were set up near voting centers on election day, the...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has already considered the case of the Finnish woman, who was identified as the country's first Omicron subvariant BA.2.12 case, as closed. “We've considered this case closed already because of the time log dahil nakita rin naman natin with our close monitoring...
(FILE PHOTO) The Philippines remains under the minimal-risk classification for Covid-19 as the daily number of cases continues to decrease, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “Kung titingnan natin ang national data, bumababa pa rin po ang ating mga cases. Nationally, 1,115 new cases lamang ang...
