Duterte closely monitoring updates on Ivermectin
PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte is closely monitoring the developments concerning the controversial drug Ivermectin here and abroad, Malacañang said Wednesday.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after Duterte directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Philippines to hold clinical trials for the use of the anti-parasitic drug to treat Covid-19 patients.
Duterte’s order overturned the previous stance of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Department of Health (DOH) that there is no need for local trial since over 40 global studies on the drug are being conducted.
Roque defended Duterte’s decision, saying the President wanted to find out if there is enough evidence to back the use of Ivermectin to treat Covid-19.
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Even after it found police violations of rules in operations that led to deaths of suspects, the drug war review panel led by the Department of Justice (DOJ) will wait for the Philippine National Police (PNP) to file complaints against erring cops, for now. We have referred these initial findings to our national police authorities, and we have been informed that the appropriate internal investigation of thousands of these incidents had been conducted, Guevarra told the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in a high-level meeting on Wednesday, February 24. Scores of police officers had been recommended for administrative and criminal action. It is now the immediate task of the Review Panel to ensure that these recommendations have been acted upon and carried out by the proper disciplinary authorities, Guevarra said.
FILE: The Manila City government received on Tuesday, February 23, a total of 1,125,000 million face masks in a bid to strengthen its COVID-19 security efforts. (Photo: Manila Public Information Office/Facebook)
MANILA – The city government of Manila on Tuesday received free 1,125,000 washable face masks through the presidential initiative “Libreng Mask para sa Masa”.
Officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) of the Office of the President turned over the face masks to Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso at the Manila City Hall.
“(This is to) provide face masks to poor families to strengthen the government’s strategic plan to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 infections by enabling and encouraging the public to follow the minimum public health standards and also to support the micro, small, and medium enterprises whose operations were disrupted by the
After a grueling battle for repatriation, six Filipino migrants who were victims of human trafficking in Syria safely returned to the Philippines last Saturday.