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(Eagle News) — At least 81.4 percent of the residents in Metro Manila have been already fully vaccinated or almost 8 million individuals, according to Malacanang citing data as Wednesday, Oct. 20. Nationwide, those fully vaccinated are already 32.25 percent of the population. This means 24,876,889 have already been fully vaccinated all over the country. In a press briefing on Thursday, Oct. 21, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Metro Manila residents who received the first […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippine government’s review of dozens of deadly drug war operations has cast doubt on police claims they acted in “self-defense”, a top official said Wednesday. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra announced this month that around 154 officers had been identified for “possible criminal liability” over police operations carried out during President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. Most of the 52 cases reviewed by the Justice Department and made public Wednesday were […]
Duque says immunocompromised to be prioritized for 3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) said that it would still have to wait for the recommendation from the World Health Organizaton (WHO) before they could start giving booster shots to the population. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the vaccine supply is no longer an issue. What is the DOH is waiting for is the recommendation of the WHO […]
(Eagle News) — Over 45,000 quarantine violators have been reported in Metro Manila since the downgrading of the COVID-19 alert level to 3 in the region. According to the Philippine National Police, of the 45,592 violators, 8,834 were logged on Wednesday. Of the overall number of violators, 33,371 violated the minimum public health standards. A total of 11,903 violators of the curfew imposed in the region, meanwhile, were recorded, for a daily average of 2,381. […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health reported only 3,656 new COVID cases on Wednesday, Oct. 20, the lowest so far in the last three months. The last time that the number of cases was lower than this was on July 13 when new cases reporyed were The DOH also recorded only five deaths but said that this was due to technical issues with its COVID Kaya system. This is also the reason why […]
(Eagle News) — With the expansion of the COVID-19 alert level system to more areas outside Metro Manila starting today, Wednesday, Oct. 20, Malacanang released the guidelines of the activities which are allowed and still banned under the different alert levels. Before Oct. 20, only Metro Manila was placed under the pilot test of the new alert level system. Currently, the National Capital Region (NCR) is under the so-called Alert Level 3. Starting today, […]
(Eagle News) — Detected COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,731,735 on Tuesday, Oct. 19, after the Department of Health reported 4,496 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 63,637 were active. Of these, 79 percent are mild, 5.2 percent asymptomatic, 2 percent critical, 4.8 severe, and 8.97 percent were moderate. Recoveries are now at 2627126 with the addition of 9609 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 40972 with the […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang announced the expansion of the alert level system in more areas of the country which will be in effect starting Wednesday, Oct. 20 until Oct 31. Under Alert Level 4 are Negros Oriental in Region 7 (Central Visayas), and Davao Occidental in Region 11 (Davao Region). Under Alert Level 3 are six areas, namely Cavite, Laguna, Rizal in Region 4-A; Siquijor in Central Visayas (Region 7); and Davao City and […]
(Eagle News) — Eighty-four more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the additional cases pushed the total cases among Filipinos abroad to 23468. Sixty-eight recoveries, meanwhile, pushed the total recoveries to 13731. The death toll due to COVID-19 among overseas Filipinos is now at 1395, with the addition of six deaths. DFA data showed the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the most COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News) — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III urged workers who have not been receiving any pay from their employers because of their failure to get vaccinated, to report this to the Department of Labor and Employment. Bello said that non-payment of wages just because a worker had not yet received a vaccine is illegal. “Yung hindi pagkabakuna, hindi legal basis yun,” Bello stressed in an interview with the NET25-Radyo Agila program “Ano Sa Palagay […]
(Eagle News) — For the second straight day, the Department of Health reported new COVID-19 cases below 7,000 on Monday, Oct. 18. The DOH said 6.943 new virus cases were recorded, while new recoveries were 19,687. This brought the total active cases to just 68,832 or 2.5 percent of total COVID-19 cases. Total Covid recoveries reached 2,617,693, or 96 percent of total cases. New Covid deaths on Monday were 86 bringing total virus fatalities […]
(Eagle News) — Vince Dizon has resigned as president of the Bases and Conversion Development Authority (BCDA). Dizon, however, will remain in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet as the country’s testing czar and deputy chief implementer of the National Task Force against COVID-19. This was revealed in the hearing on the proposed P6.487-billion budget of the BCDA for 2022 in the Senate on Monday, Oct. 18. Dizon’s resignation as BCDA president reportedly became effective on […]
