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Former president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand, Hazim Arafeh, responds to news of a movie to be made about the March 15, 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks.
OPINION: Last week the Ministry of Justice took down an image used in an advertisement recruiting for policy advisors to work on the National Action Plan Against Racism. If you missed it, through no fault of their own, the photograph appeared to capture four employees who present as Pākehā. In response to criticism on social media, the ministry took down the photo. On the surface, it could have been a simple mistake – someone reaching for a stock standard photo without considering the context of the role that was being advertised. But the response from the ministry, which was to say that it was a reminder of ‘how damaging it can be to assume ethnicity’, and who instead removed the photo because it ‘‘distracted from what is truly important�
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Philippine government and United States officials welcome the arrival of 193,050 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (US Embassy photo)
QUEZON CITY, May 11 (PIA) The Philippine Government and the United States welcome the successful arrival to the Philippines of 193,050 doses of the U.S. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, one of the safest and most effective vaccines in the world.
This delivery is the first tranche of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines and follows the arrival of 2,030,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on May 8, bringing total COVAX deliveries to the Philippines to 2,673,000 doses. The U.S. is by far the largest contributor to the COVAX effort, funding one in five vaccinations in the Philippines provided by the facility.
Mayor Francisco Zamora
(Photo from Mayor Francisco Zamora Facebook page / FILE PHOTO)
He will get his first Sinovac jab after he was given the go signal by his infectious disease doctor Paul Salandanan, Secretary Vince Dizon, deputy chief implementer of the National Action Plan Against COVID-19; and Gloria Balboa, Department of Health (DOH) National Capital Region director.
This came after the DOH announced that recovered COVID-19 patients are no longer required to wait for 90 days before getting the vaccine.
The Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) also allowed mayors in high-risk areas to get vaccinated.
Published April 8, 2021, 12:48 PM
The San Juan City local government started on Thursday, April 8, the disbursement of the P98 million financial cash assistance the city received from the national government for its citizens to help them amid the ongoing Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila.
(Screenshot from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook live)
The first payout was conducted in Barangay St. Joseph, and was witnessed by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, National Action Plan Against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Undersecretary Feliciano Bodiongan, and San Juan City DILG Director Sylvestre Barrameda.