Incoming Mandaluyong Mayor Benjamin Abalos Sr. and other senior citizens received their second booster shot against COVID-19 during the ceremonial vaccination at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City Thursday.
(PNA file photo by Ben Briones) MANILA-The country's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination program will continue during elections, said Presidential Adviser on Covid-19 response, Secretary Vince Dizon. During the pre-recorded Talk to the People of President Rodrigo Duterte aired Tuesday night, Dizon said the local government units (LGUs) have understood the need to continue the massive vaccination program while the election campaign period is ongoing. Thus, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III requested the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to exempt all the vaccination efforts and other vaccination-related activities from the poll ban. "Puwede pong tuloy-tuloy ang bakuna kahit na po nagsimula na ang local campaign sa ating mga probinsiya, sa atin pong mga cities and municipalities. Very important po 'yun, Mayor, para po kahit na nangangampanya ang ating mga opisyales ay
Almost 100 lawmakers that belong to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s party opposed mask requirements and other infection-control measures imposed in the UK in December. Since then, the Omicron variant has been raging across the country. Hospitals said they would pause some non-urgent surgeries amid the rising impact of Covid-19 and…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has employed more than 2,000 contact tracers and secured 50,000 pieces of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test kits as it plans to conduct aggressive test and tracing efforts to contain the spread of the deadly virus. “We’ve got three [contact tra
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Philippines is ensuring to have enough supplies of syringes, particularly the 0.3ml syringes (microsyringes) and 0.5ml auto-disable (AD) syringes, which are nece