The evident increase in the country’s Covid-19 cases is not yet a cause for “real alarm” but the public should still be vigilant against the increasing transmission of the virus, a health expert said on Monday, June 27. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP) The Department of Health (DOH) recently placed five...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 positivity rates in Metro Manila and eight other provinces in the country have continued to increase over the past week, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said on Monday, June 27. David, in an update shared on Twitter, showed that as of June 25, the Covid...
DAVAO CITY – The local task force on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has urged unvaccinated and individuals eligible for boosters here to get inoculated to protect themselves from transmission and severity of the disease as it reported that the positivity rate has increased to three percent...
Compared to the recorded number of Covid-19 cases from May 30 to June 5, the average daily rate from June 6 to 12 is 30.4 percent higher. Omicron variant of COVID-19 (MB FILE PHOTO) This was according to the weekly Covid-19 data of the country released by the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday,...
GROCERY store workers rest in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – The unemployment rate in Western Visayas or Region 6 dropped as restrictions from the Covid-19 pandemic ease and businesses are returning to more normal operations. Data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)...
The country's unemployment fell to 5.7 percent in April, nearing the 5.3 percent pre-COVID level, on continued reopening of the domestic economy, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. The April performance was also a significant improvement from 8.7 percent a year ago and...
An uptick in Metro Manila’s Covid-19 positivity rate was observed by independent group OCTA Research on Thursday evening, June 9. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) “The situation in the National Capital Region (NCR) has become more concerning as the positivity rate, at 1.5 percent a week ago,...
The average accuracy rate of vote-counting machines (VCMs) on all audited positions from president down to mayor is at 99.95825 percent so far, according to the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec’s) Random Manual Audit (RMA) of votes in the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB In its advisory, the running...
Compared to the logged number of Covid-19 cases from May 23 to 29, the average daily rate from May 30 to June 5 is 1.4 percent lower. (DOH/MB) This was according to the weekly Covid-19 data of the country released by the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, June 6, noting that the average daily...
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. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (Malacañang...
More than 47,000 physical election returns encoded by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) as of Sunday afternoon, May 15, produced a 98.59 percent match. Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting command center at the Quadricentennial Pavilion inside the University of...
Gabriela Women’s Partylist, on Saturday, May 14, slammed a report on the apparent 8.3 percent growth of the Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2022. (Gabriela Women's Partylist / Facebook) An increasing GDP indicates that a country’s economy is growing. However,...
