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Residents affected by the renewed enhanced community quarantine wait for their turn as they claim their cash assistance from the government inside the Old Balara Elementary school in Quezon City on Thursday midnight, April 8, 2021.

382 more COVID-19 variant cases detected

The Department of Health reported Saturday night the detection of additional cases of COVID variants among recently sequenced samples. Read more

The WHO reported that rich countries have received more than 87 percent and low-income countries just 0.2 percent of the vaccines.

Richer nations received 87% of vaccines – WHO

Although more than 700 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, the vast majority of COVID-19 vaccines administered has gone to... Read more

The second batch of Sinovac vaccines purchased by the government arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 at 5:17 p.m. aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR 361, a commercial flight from Beijing.

Philippines gets 2nd batch of Sinovac vaccines

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. and testing czar Vince Dizon yesterday welcomed the arrival of another 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines as part... Read more

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The Philippine Statistics Authority, the project implementer, said these 28 million Filipinos have already completed the first step of registration for the national ID system.

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National ID system pre-registers 28 million Pinoys

During the 33rd meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights held recently through a video conference, ICHR Philippine Representative Jaime Victor Ledda joined representatives of other ASEAN member-nations in discussing current developments on human rights in the region and expressed deep concern over the developments in Myanmar.

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Philippines to Myanmar: Adhere to ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

AS IT HAPPENS

8 hours ago - Curfew in Metro Manila, which is part of the NCR Plus bubble, will actually be from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. as the capital goes into Modified Enhanced Community Quaran...

10 hours ago - Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera agents joined in by Cordillera policemen torched more than P5 million worth of cannabis discovered at a marijuana ...

12 hours ago - Myanmar youth are fighting the junta's internet shutdown and information suppression with an explosive underground printed newsletter they are secretly dist...

13 hours ago - The Palace will make an announcement on community quarantine classifications at around 3 p.m., News5 reports.

15 hours ago - A motorcycle rider and his passenger died after accidentally falling into a canal in Barangay Tabangao Ambulong in Batangas City on Friday evening. Polic...

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No compassion in compassionate use

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Mario Miclat: The light that dimmed and China

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Being Consumed

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Image shared by Sen. Bong Go shows President Duterte playing golf at the MalacaÃ±ang grounds yesterday.

‘Healthy Duterte to lead country to recovery’

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Citing a report from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in UK, DOLE Information Public Service director Rolly Francia said Filipino health care workers could enter the UK despite the restriction imposed by the British government.

Nurses not barred from UK

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Roque, also the spokesman for the governmentâ��s pandemic task force, said he felt better after he was given a vial of antiviral medication Remdesivir and steroids at an undisclosed hospital.

Virus-hit Roque to still hold briefings

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The project will assist 30 developing countries, including the Philippines, in preventing and reducing marine litter from the maritime transport and fisheries sectors.

Philippines joins global initiative tackling marine litter scourge

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Investigators gather evidence at the scene of a shootout along C-5 Extension in Pasay at past midnight yesterday.

5 drug, kidnap suspects slain in shootouts

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Abalos said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, during a meeting with Metro Manila mayors on Saturday, agreed to increase the number of contact tracers to beef up the governmentâ��s efforts to curb the spread of the virus.

14,000 more contact tracers eyed for Metro Manila

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â��San Juan City will follow the guidelines set by our experts in our rollout. With the inoculation of senior citizens, a stringent set of rules are in place which we will make sure we implement in the city,â�� he said in a statement.

San Juan to use Sinovac on seniors

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She said they enforce this strategy if most of the members of a household are infected with COVID-19 so that their quarantine facility is not overwhelmed.

Mandaluyong shifts to reverse isolation

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The Faustino Dy Sr. Memorial Hospital in Ilagan was placed under indefinite lockdown starting yesterday after its 31 healthcare workers and administrative personnel contracted COVID.

Inoculated health workers contract COVID-19

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Slain activists’ kin seek dialogue with Guevarra

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Quezon City fire leaves 60 families homeless

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‘Peltzman effect’

by: Marichu A. Villanueva

The term “Peltzman effect” first popped up when health and...

Mario Miclat: The light that dimmed and China

by: F. Sionil Jose

Mario Miclat, distinguished Diliman writer and political science...

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by: Wilson Sy

Many countries around the world, including the Philippines, reverted...

Build health infrastructure

by: Boo Chanco

The one major fault of our health system that COVID made deathly...

Hotter than the stifling 40-degree summer heat

by: Ricky Lo

First, a disclaimer: The forthcoming teleserye Init sa Magdamag...

Dr. Mikey Bengzon shares basic health protocols

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Dr. Mikey Bengzon, MD, FPOA, MBAH is currently the OIC of the...

Young Indian GM shines

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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India posted an impressive 8.5/10...

Duterte’s absence raises speculations

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Absence did not make the heart grow fonder in the case of President...

Fil-Ams unite

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I was extremely pleased to learn that a number of Filipino-Americans...

Milk Tea Alliance

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There are so many critical events in Asia today that have global...

Leadership in the midst of change and uncertainty

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Desperate times

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The lobby of Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center in Marikina City is jam-packed with people as patients seek medical checkup on March 19, 2021.

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Allowing the use of Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 could lead to "false confidence" for those who take it, the World Health Organization's representative to the country said Tuesday.

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'Very basic' hospital command center setup leaves it unreachable amid COVID-19 surge

A command center created to refer COVID-19 patients to hospitals has apparently been unreachable at times during the current surge in cases due to its “very basic” setup.

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A health worker holds up a vial of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during the first phase of vaccinations for health workers at a hospital in Manila on March 1, 2021.

No PhilHealth ID Number? You can still be vaccinated vs COVID-19

Memorandum 2021-0099 of the health department states that potential vaccine recipients must register using their unique identifiers. The PhilHealth ID Number is one of them.

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Commuters queue for free bus rides from Philcoa to Cubao in Quezon City on March 30, 2021 due to limited public transportation amid the enhanced community quarantine.

Contact tracing in Philippines, inadequate from the start, has deteriorated

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'ECQ Plus?' IATF meets on Saturday, but Roque says extension is 'last resort'

The government’s coronavirus task force will meet on Saturday to discuss whether the Enhanced Community Quarantine status of Metro Manila and four nearby provinces will be extended.

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