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(PNA file photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - A total of 24,661 senior citizens have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) since the PinasLakas campaign started on July 26. In a media briefing Wednesday, Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge said the government aims to protect 90 percent of the elderly population through the vaccination drive. "So, this is just 2.03 percent of our targeted population for our primary series for senior citizens," she said. "Malayong malayo po iyan doon sa tina-target natin na dapat per day may 17,000 plus na (That is very far from the target per day of 17,000) accomplishments." For the first booster dose, Vergeire said the DOH has reached over 2.1 million individuals or 8.82 percent of the targeted eligible population of 23 million. "Wala pa rin pong rehiyon na nakakaabot ng at least 50 percent coverage dito po sa ating ginagawang (No region has reached at least 50 percent coverage in this) Pinas ....
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The daily average of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases went down by 19 percent for the period Aug. 22 to 28, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday. From 3,412 per day recorded from Aug. 15 to 21, the number decreased to 2,752 daily in the recent week. The latest case bulletin showed there were 19,262 new cases and 316 verified deaths. Of the additional deaths, the DOH said 94 occurred from Aug. 15 to 28. In the same period, 110 cases were added to the tally of severe and critical infections, which went down to 807 from the previous week's 811. Only 24.9 percent or 635 out of the 2,551 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 28.1 percent or 5,986 of 21,287 non-ICU beds are utilized. To date, about 72,476,610 or 92.80 percent of the country's target population (78,100,578) are vaccinated against Covid-19, including 78.01 percent of 8,721,357 senior citizens. As of Aug. 28, a total of 17,843,348 have received booster shots out of ....
BASIC SERVICES. Office of the Vice President (OVP) Spokesperson Reynold Munsayac joins a press briefing with the Department of Education on Thursday (Aug. 4, 2022). He said the OVP intends to widen basic services for the public nationwide. (PNA photo) MANILA - The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has called on the private sector to be part of widening partnerships to provide basic services to the public, particularly for the expansion of the OVP Libreng Sakay (free rides) in the country. In a joint press briefing on Thursday, OVP Spokesperson Reynold Munsayac said they are eyeing adding Commonwealth Avenue for the Libreng Sakay route. "May mga target routes pa ho kaming nakikita, kasi marami ho kaming natanggap na reports na pasahero diyan sa may Commonwealth area, papuntang Manila area o Quiapo. So naghahanap po kami ng mga private partners. Kung sana ho may mabubuting loob na hindi na masyadong pagkakagastusan ng gobyerno, idadagdag po namin 'yan sa current fit namin, para ....
Mission. we ve delivered uncountable cases of water today and mres to residents that can t get out that have been without water and food for a couple of days now. we re transitioning into that humanitarian mode, into the secondary search mode. and those are kind of things we re encountering. reporter: and i know that, you know, this is a place very tight-knit, close, everyone i talk to knows somebody who s been affected or was affected themselves. you re not just here managing this, it includes you, too. can you talk about how this affects you personally and what s going to happen to the area after this historic tragedy? yeah, so the area that s hardest hit is highway 476. i m actually from highway 476 just over into perry county. and my grandfather and grandparents home was lost in the flood as well as my aunt and uncle s home. so it affects me directly. moving forward, we ll move into that secondary search mode and eventually into recovery mode. we ll have fema on the ground her ....
martha: the u.s. army facing unprecedented challenges in recruiting new troops. it s only halfway to its goal for this year. cutting their target for force size by 10,000 troops from 476 down to 466. the army says this is the most challenging recruiting environment since the creation of the all-volunteer force. we ve got unprecedented challenges with both a post covid-19 environment and labor market, but also competition, private competition with private companies that have changed their incentives over time. you ve seen that with the incentives that companies have provided. martha: like working at home. let s bring in general jack keane, chairman of the instituted for the study of war. general, these were issues that were important to you in your former role in terms of how to ....