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Following Mt. Bulusan’s eruption, Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III on Monday, June 6, ordered the distribution of prepositioned supplies and face masks to affected residents.

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III on Monday, June 6, agreed with health experts calling to redefine the term “full vaccination” by adding the first booster shot as it is expected to increase the Covid-19 vaccination rate in the country.

As the government intensifies its inoculation efforts, Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III on Monday, April 25, bared that 95 percent of Covid-19 deaths in the country are unvaccinated.

Metro Manila is already “ripe” for Alert Level 1 as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the capital region continues to improve, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said.

Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque praised Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso and the Manila City government’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and vaccine deployment during the pilot launch of the “Resbakuna sa mga Botika” on Thursday, Jan. 20.

Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III encouraged Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) Chief Persida Acosta to get inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said he recently received his coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine booster shot.

The Muntinlupa City government started giving fully vaccinated frontline healthcare workers their booster shots on Friday, Nov. 19.

The Taguig City government started giving booster shots to fully vaccinated healthcare workers on Wednesday, Nov. 17.

Concerned that his agency will again be called out by the Commission on Audit (COA), Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday, August 25, insisted the need for a law that would authorize the grant of special risk allowances (SRA) to health care workers who are not catering to COVID-19 patients.

Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday, August 25, said the Philippines might attain herd immunity by the second month of the first quarter of 2022.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Thursday, August 19, that he was not convinced with Health Secretary Francisco Duque III’s explanations on the issues in his department’s in handling COVID-19 response funds.

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar felt the heat of social media bashing after he was perceived to have defended Health Secretary Francisco Duque III over the P67 billion fund that was flagged by the Commission on Audit (COA).

Former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay on Tuesday (August 3) called Health Secretary Francisco Duque a comedian for claiming that the Department of Health (DOH) has been proactive in dealing with the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.

Kids should stay home for now.

A maskless Christmas may be unlikely this year as the country still does not have enough supply of coronavirus vaccine to achieve the target “population protection” by end of the year.

A group of government experts are currently studying the possibility of imposing a travel ban on Indonesia amid the threat of the more infectious Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The Department of Health (DOH) has already submitted to Senator Manny Pacquiao its budget utilization report following the lawmaker’s corruption allegation against the department.