The Taguig City government has imposed restrictions on unvaccinated individuals and curfew for minors under Alert Level 2. Metro Manila, including Taguig, is under Alert Level 2 from Feb. 1 to 15 as decided by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). Vaccination checkpoint in Taguig last month under...
The Muntinlupa City government has identified two sites as venues for the vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 years old in the city. Muntinlupa City Health Office chief Dr. Juancho Bunyi said the two vaccination sites for the age group are the Laguerta Health Center in Barangay Tunasan and Ospital...
The San Juan City local government announced that its active COVID-19 cases continue to drop amid the surge in COVID-19 infections in the country caused by the more transmissible Omicron and Delta variants. In an interview with ANC, San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city's active COVID-19...
Editorial The race to vaccinate all citizens of the world, from the oldest to the youngest, is on track. This is welcome news as the Department of Health (DOH) announced that minors, aged five to 11, will be vaccinated starting Feb. 4, 2022. The vaccine that will be used is the one manufactured by...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo wants to make social media platforms “accountable and responsible” if she becomes the president by penalizing them for making pornography accessible to minors. Vice President Leni Robredo speaks during the “2022 Presidential One-On-One...
The Las Piñas City government has already vaccinated a total of 46,827 minors aged 12 to 17. Citing the data of the City Health Office (CHO), Mayor Imelda Aguilar said out of the total number of fully vaccinated minors, 2,576 belong to A3 category (with comorbidities) while 44,251 are physically...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo is pushing for the enactment of a law raising the age of sexual consent in determining statutory rape from the current 12 years old to 16. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) Robredo, an opposition leader, posted on Facebook she would prioritize...
Fully vaccinated individuals in Pateros, the smallest local government unit (LGU) in Metro Manila with an estimated population of 70,000, have totaled more than 69,000 by the end of 2021. This is according to Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III in his address to the Pateros Municipal Council....
The Muntinlupa City Council will follow the decision of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on the imposition of curfew for minors in the National Capital Region (NCR). “We will follow MMDA curfew directive,” Raul Corro, the council’s majority floor leader, told Manila...
The Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) announced that walk-ins will not be allowed at vaccination sites from Jan. 10 to 12 due to the three-day inoculation of minors amid a reduced workforce due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The Department of Health (DOH) will hold the vaccination of...
The Paranaque City government has imposed curfew hours from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. for minors aged 18 years old and below starting Thursday, Jan.6, amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. Mayor Edwin Olivarez ordered the police and the barangay officials to conduct routine patrol all over the city and...
More than 25,000 minors aged 12 to 17 years old have been fully vaccinated in Muntinlupa amid the rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the city. Data from the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) showed that as of Jan. 4, a total of 25,638 minors have received the second dose of the...
