Malacañang assured it is taking the necessary steps to enforce strict Covid-19 protocols following the planned visit of President Rodrigo Duterte to areas hit by Typhoon Odette last month.
"JAILED AND ARRESTED," President Rodrigo Duterte said those who refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19 should just “stay home” or risk getting prisoned.
President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to the Roman Catholic Church to suspend the physical masses, including the traditional Traslacion procession and mass for the Black Nazarene amid the spike of Covid-19 cases in the country.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted at least two police officers deployed in hotels used as Covid-19 quarantine facilities to prevent incidents of persons skipping their mandatory quarantine.
Anakalusugan Party-list Representative urged local government units to clearly indicate in their registration websites which vaccines are available for the Covid-19 booster dose to avoid leaving the registrant to guess which booster to choose.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bicol is now fast-tracking the encoding activities to update the database of the households in the region that are considered poor.
More than 1 million coronavirus cases were reported in the US, a record single-day number, amid the rapid increase of the new Omicron variant, according to Johns Hopkins University.