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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 451,000 mark on Tuesday, December 15, after the Department of Health reported 1135 additional cases. The DOH said of the 451,839 total cases, 24160 or 5.3 percent were active. Of these, 84.7 percent were mild, 6.4 percent asymptomatic, 5.7 percent critical, 2.9 percent severe, and 0.3 percent moderate. The DOH said the areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Rizal with 117, Bulacan […]
Concepcion says they hope to get 2.6M additional doses or more of vaccine, translating to 5.2M total doses (Eagle News) — The private business initiative to get more COVID-19 vaccines got a boost after the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca agreed to give additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Philippines, aside from the earlier 2.6 million doses it had agreed to give. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said that AstraZeneca agreed to a “part 2” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the Department of Education’s proposal to conduct a dry run of face-to-face classes in areas where there is a low risk for COVID-19, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, based on the decision made during Monday’s meeting with the Cabinet, the dry run or pilot implementation in select schools in those areas will be held for the entire month of January 2021. Even then, Roque […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country reached 450,733 on Monday, December 14, after the Department of Health reported 1339 additional cases. The DOH said of the 450,733 total cases, 23253 or 5.2 percent were active. Of these, 85.1 percent were mild, 5.7 percent asymptomatic, 5.9 percent critical, 3 percent severe, and 0.32 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Quezon City with 147, Davao City with 124, […]
(Eagle News) — The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) said that over 90 percent of toll transactions in the country are through radio frequency identification (RFID) sticker use as a result of the implementation of the cashless transaction since Dec. 1, 2020. Still, the Senate is set to probe how this cashless toll transactions are being implemented amid reported problems that had resulted in traffic gridlocks that had affected motorists, according to Senator Grace Poe. […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases breached the 449,000 mark on Sunday, Dec. 13, after the Department of Health reported 1085 additional cases. The DOH said of the 449,400 total cases, 21980 or 4.9 percent were active. Of these, 84.4 percent were mild, 5.8 percent asymptomatic, 6.3 percent critical, 3.2 percent severe, and 0.33 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported on Sunday were Quezon City with 103, Rizal with 46, Makati with […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 448,000 mark on Saturday, December 12, after the Department of Health reported 1301 additional cases. The DOH said of the 448,331 total COVID-19 cases, 6.7 percent or 30,168 were active. Of these, 85.8 percent were mild, 7 percent asymptomatic, 4.6 percent critical, 2.3 percent severe, and 0.24 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao del Norte with 96, […]
PHL clinical trial application of China firms Sinovac, Clover BioPharma also pass vaccine evaluation, ethics board review, says DOST (Eagle News) – The Philippines will start getting the COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac by the first quarter of next year, Malacanang said, even as the Department of Science and Technology announced that another China-based pharmaceutical firm, aside from Sinovac, had also passed evaluation for clinical trials in the country. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that Sinovac Pharmaceuticals […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 447,000 mark on Friday, December 11, after the Department of Health reported 1504 additional cases. The DOH said of the 447,039 total cases, 6.5 percent or 29,001 were active. Of these, 85. 8 percent were mild, 6.7 percent asymptomatic, 4.8 percent critical, 2.4 percent severe, and 0.25 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 122, Rizal with […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang is very much dismayed that the country’s internet speed remains slow despite the deadline given by President Rodrigo Duterte that it has lagged behind many of its ASEAN neighbors. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that despite some improvements, in terms of increased contruction permits for telephone companies, the Philippines is still behind many of the ASEAN countries, including Myanmar and Laos, as the government pushed telcos to do better. “Narinig […]
(Eagle News) — Over 1,000 local government units have declared members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front as persona non grata in their respective cities, municipalities, and provinces, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday, Dec. 11. In a statement on Friday, December 11, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the 1546 of the 1715 total LGUs in the country passed resolutions declaring the same. Of the […]
LPA now off Subic, Zambales (Eagle News) — The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said this was apart from the low pressure area estimated 250 kilometers west of Subic, Zambales. As a result, PAGASA said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, PAGASA said, will have […]
