League of Provinces of the Philippines President and Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr. said Saturday that he believes the Omicron coronavirus variant is now causing the spike in COVID-19 cases in the provinces.
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The shortage of vaccinators was the root cause of the failure of some localities to meet their respective inoculation targets of the qualified individuals during the National Vaccination Days. This was disclosed by League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) president and Marinduque governor Pres
A number of local government units (LGUs) have started preparing stricter health safety regulations in a bid to lessen the effects of the possible adverse impact of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) should it reaches the Philippines. League of Provinces of the Philippin
(PNA file photo by Robert Alfiler) MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte defended the five-day closure of cemeteries, memorial parks, and columbaria nationwide during Undas for the second year in a row amid criticism from some local government units (LGUs) outside Metro Manila. Duterte said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) called the shots in deciding ways to prevent a potential super-spreader event of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) transmission in the country. "Ito ho ay talagang utos, mandato ng IATF at wala po tayong magawa at sumunod kasi sila yung may authority na magsabi ito 'sunod tayo, dito tayo' in (This is the order, the mandate of the IATF and we have no choice but to follow because they have the authority to say 'let's follow this, let's do this') so far as the fight against Covid," he said in a prerecorded public address aired Wednesday morning. He pointed out that the IATF-EID wa