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Face shield together with face mask only required in 3Cs- closed, crowded areas where there is close contact (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that face shields are no longer required to be worn outside, but wearing face masks should be continued as a protection against COVID-19. In his “Talk to the People” on Wednesday night, Sept. 22, Duterte said that the use of face shields with face masks would only be required […]
Balitalakayan interviews political analyst UP Prof. Clarita Carlos on Sept. 21, 2021, on the Marcos martial law years, and the need to study and analyze the martial law regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos by experts, with objectivity and without political color or bias.
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,417,419 on Wednesday, Sept. 22, after the Department of Health reported 15,592 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 162580 are active. Of these, 92 percent are mild, 3 percent asymptomatic, 0.7 percent critical, 1.5 percent severe, and 2.81 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 2,217,611 with the addition of 24,059 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 37,228 with the addition […]
(Eagle News) — Manila mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced he is running for president in 2022. Moreno announced his candidacy as he criticized the Duterte administration’s handling of the pandemic. “Nakalulungkot ang kalagayan ng public health system,” he said on Wednesday, Sept. 22. “Ang mga negosyo nakakandado, ganoon din ang ating paaralan.” Moreno during his speech also hit the Department of Health’s failure to immediately pay daily allowance for health frontliners. “In […]
Updated number of casualties at 20 (Eagle News) — Disaster officials said that typhoon Jolina (international name Conson) left at least P1.53 billion damage to agriculture and P63.676 million damage to infrastructure. In its latest report as of Wednesday, Sept. 22, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) also updated the number of casualties and injuries left by the typhoon. In its latest update, it said the typhoon left 20 people dead and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his call for the abolition of the kafala system, which allows employers in some Middle Eastern countries to control the employment and migration status of foreign employees. In his pre-recorded speech aired before the High-Level General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the President noted that the “behemoth” system “chains the weak, the desperate and the voiceless..to an existence of unimaginable suffering.” He […]
It’s “shocking beyond belief and must be condemned for what it is, a selfish act that can neither be justified rationally nor morally,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (Philippine time) assailed talk of COVID-19 booster shots in rich countries even as poor countries “wait for trickles” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “The now talk of booster shots while developing countries consider half doses just to get by — this is shocking […]
Over 100 areas under granular lockdown in Metro Manila (Eagle News) – The pilot implementation of alert levels in Metro Manila could be extended for another two weeks as officials observe over a hundred areas placed under granular lockdown in the capital region, according to the spokesperson of the National Task Force Against COVID-19. NTF Spokesperson Ret. Major Gen. Restituto Padilla said that the extension of the pilot implementation of the alert level in […]
NTF says 9.58 million COVID vaccine doses also delivered from Sept 13 to 19, making this the highest weekly delivery since February (Eagle News) — The Philippines received more than 2.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses in the past two days from the US government bringing to over 9.1 million doses the Pfizer vaccines so far delivered to the country. The latest arrival was the additional 561,600 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shots on Monday evening, September 20, […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 2,401,916 on Tuesday, Sept. 21, after the Department of Health reported 16,361 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 171142 are active. Of these, 92.4 percent are mild, 2.8 percent asymptomatic, 0.6 percent critical, 1.4 percent severe, and 2.69 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 2,193,700 with the addition of 21,974 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 37,074 with the […]
Over 66 percent in NCR already fully vaccinated, says Palace (Eagle News) – Over 41 million Filipinos have already been vaccinated in the country, with those given full doses reaching over 18.5 million of the country’s population. Those who have been fully vaccinated (18,560,409) have reached 24.06 percent of the targeted population nationwide, while those who got only the first dose (22,853,606) have reached 29.63 percent of the target population. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 2,385,616 after the Department of Health reported 18,937 additional COVID-19 cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 92.7 percent were mild, 2.7 percent asymptomatic, 0.6 percent critical, 1.4 percent severe, and 2.61 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 2,171,832 with the addition of 20,171 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 36,934 with the addition of 146 deaths. Metro Manila is under a […]
