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PH buys 40M Pfizer doses

The government has made the biggest vaccine procurement for 2021 with the signing of a supply agreement for 40 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines,...

Australia boosts PH war on Covid

The Australian government has committed to provide additional P480.2 million to help the Philippines procure COVID-19 vaccines. Australian Ambassador to Manila Steven Robinson said Thursday...

Taking care of business

"I would like to be told I am wrong if I am, indeed, mistaken. "     With Francisco Duque at the helm of the Department of...

Local Roundup: – FDA: AstraZeneca gets go-ahead – 2 Miss U pageant bets test positive

The Philippines can continue using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after experts reviewed it amid blood clot reports, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday. “I...

A crime against humanity

"Why the continued refusal? Why the warning?"   As of Thursday, April 8, 2021, the country has recorded 14,119 deaths related to COVID-19. Filipinos are growing...

San Juan jabs

Health Secretary Francisco Duque prepares to inoculate 69-year-old senior citizen Charito Banal with the AstraZeneca anti-COVID-19 vaccine, as San Juan City Francis Zamora looks...

Lawmakers ask gov’t to repeal ‘unlawful’ CSC circular against tobacco companies

Several lawmakers pushed for the immediate repeal of a controversial joint memorandum circular issued by then Civil Service Commission chair Francisco Duque in 2010...

Duterte chides Leni for sending wrong message

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night said he could have been inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine, but Vice President Leni Robredo’s wrong message pushed...

PGH, Lung Center, Tala hospital staff to get first jabs

Employees of the country’s three main COVID-19 referral hospitals – the Philippine General Hospital in Manila, the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon...

Duterte: Avoid Xmas parties, ‘crackers ban set next year

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night urged the public to skip Christmas festivities this year to keep safe amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. In a...

Local Roundup: Silver lining: 92% recover from COVID

The Department of Health said Sunday 92 percent of those who had tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 have recovered. In its latest bulletin,...

Evacuees as spreaders feared

Health officials on Friday called for close monitoring of evacuation centers to spot new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, “a very strong possibility” as...

WHO lauds Pfizer’s virus vaccine

The World Health Organization chief hailed as “encouraging” Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement Monday that their vaccine has in trials proved 90-percent effective in preventing...

The PhilHealth mess: Is Duque accountable? (Part 1)

"The secretary said he would do some soul-searching."     Should Health Secretary Francisco Duque go scot-free amid the major corruption scandals PhilHealth is in? In his...
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