Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles says the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) would continue to escalate the alert level of provinces amd cities with rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases if figures breach the parameters. (Martin Sanchez/...
Omicron variant of COVID-19 Could the Omicron coronavirus variant act as a "natural vaccine" and be the "beginning of an end" of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Department of Health (DOH) and some local medical experts disapproved of this notion. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire pointed out...
Amid the spike of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, an infectious disease expert reiterated that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is not mild and that the public should not be complacent about it. (File Photo / Unsplash) “Ang Omicron po ay virus, hindi po siya bakuna. Hindi...
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles has interpreted President Duterte's order for barangay chiefs to restrict the movement of unvaccinated individuals as being nationwide in scope. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Photo from the Cabinet Secretariat Facebook page) Not only that, but the order also...
President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic managers said the imposition of stricter quarantine status over Metro Manila and nearby provinces is a necessary setback in the country’s recovery in the wake of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Omicron variant. The inter-agency Development Budget...
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – Mongolia has registered the country's first cases of the Omicron variant, Tsolmon Bilegtsaikhan, director of the National Center for Communicable Diseases, said on Friday. "At least 12 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant have been detected in our country,"...
Las Pinas City Mayor Imelda Aguilar on Friday, Jan. 7, said the city government has it made it mandatory for residents and visitors to wear their face masks. Aguilar said the City Council passed and approved City Ordinance 1869, Series of 2020, requiring the use of face masks or other similar...
CAVITE – Gov. Jonvic Remulla reminded his constituents to take extra precaution now that the province is facing a new surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. "WE CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER LOCKDOWN. Masyadong maraming maapektuhan (It will affect so many people). So please take...
Hospital nurse (FILE PHOTO) The Omicron coronavirus variant is “less deadly” than the Delta variant. However, the public must avoid complacency and should get vaccinated immediately to prevent having severe COVID-19 infection, an infectious disease expert said. “It is less deadly than Delta....
Procrastination in having your coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine will kill you. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) President Duterte gave this warning to Filipinos--particularly the hard-headed ones who keep refusing the jab--during his latest "Talk to the People" public briefing on...
Another 14 locations in the country are scheduled to be placed under Alert Level 3 in the coming days. (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) This was confirmed by Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles in a statement late Thursday night, Jan. 6. "The Inter-Agency Task Force...
Saying that the P5,000 special risk allowance for medical frontliners is “too low,” President Duterte on Thursday, Jan. 6, approved the increase of such allowance due to the surge of coronavirus cases in the country. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) This came after he made a call to...
