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Tag: Health Secretary Francisco Duque III

Frontliners likely to wait longer for OCA

It looks like the country’s frontline healthcare workers will have to wait a lot longer for their much-awaited One COVID-19 Allowance (OCA). The Department of...

NAP Phase 5: Transition to endemic approach begins

After nearly two years of varying degrees of lockdown, the country is now preparing for a transition to a “new normal”—a possible shift from...

DOH to look into further lowering RT-PCR test cost 

The Department of Health (DOH) will look into lowering the prices of RT-PCR tests in the country, amid complaints on social media and the surge of...

Leonardia asks for lower alert level status for Bacolod

Pointing out that the COVID-19 attack rate in Bacolod City is declining the last two weeks of October, Mayor Evelio Leonardia has requested Health...

Duque readies SRA payout

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Tuesday said special risk allowances (SRAs) for health care workers are ready for distribution beginning today. At a congressional...

Duterte to Duque: I’ll accept voluntary offer to quit

President Rodrigo Duterte said he will accept it if Health Secretary Francisco Duque III offers to voluntarily resign amid the backlash over the Commission on...

Duque the beloved

"Ultimately, it’s not Mr. Duterte who will suffer the consequences of his devotion."   Again, we are moved to ask: What does the Health Secretary have...

Connecting the dots

"If the irregularities are as plenty and as big as this, would thinking of corruption necessarily be a leap in logic?"   The Commission on Audit...

2.8m vaccines arriving this week

More than 2.87 million doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccine are scheduled to arrive this week, according to the Manila International Airport Authority. First to arrive...

Duque backs Nayong Pilipino mega vax site

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday backed the plan to use Nayong Pilipino as a temporary COVID-19 mega vaccination site, saying it is...

Duque pressed on hazard pay delay

On Healthcare Workers’ Day, Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday pressed Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to explain the delay in hazard pay for healthcare...

Speedy vaccine rollout will win the war against COVID-19

The vaccine rollout is a critical element in the full opening the Philippine economy. It is the starting point or ground zero that will...

The vaccine rollout challenge

"It is time to win the war against COVID-19." Inoculating the entire Filipino population is not by any means an easy task. One has to...

Dropping the ball

"On Duque’s seeming immunity from presidential discipline" Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. made clear on Twitter that in his view, “someone dropped the ball” on a...
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