The Basic Kalinga Kit for COVID-19 patients program is a big step toward protecting Filipinos from the virus, Sen. Bong Go said yesterday.

The number of COVID-19 cases per day in Metro Manila appears to be steadily decreasing, with the growth rate at negative one percent, the OCTA Research Group announced yesterday.

Mabalacat City Mayor Crisostomo Garbo went on quarantine yesterday after he contracted COVID for the second time despite being fully vaccinated.

Yesterday, a Monday, felt like waiting outside the hospital ICU for a medical bulletin on a very important COVID-19 patient in serious condition.

The times we live in now are harrowing. While we never believed ourselves to be free of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing numbers of vaccinated people and the decreasing new cases towards the tail end of the year was a much needed reprieve, and a source of cautious optimism.