The passengers, who are residents of Quezon City, onboard the same flight as the country’s “patient zero” or first recorded case of the new coronavirus variant in the Philippines are now traced and are already in isolation, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said Saturday. Last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Philippine Genome Center on Wednesday announced that the UK coronavirus variant has been detected from a Filipino who arrived from the.
Published January 16, 2021, 10:57 AM
Vice President Leni Robredo clarified Saturday reports that thousands of unused slippers bearing her name were found in an abandoned camp of the New People’s Army (NPA).
Vice President Leni Robredo addresses the public on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, after President Rodrigo Duterte’s instruction that she be removed as co-chair of the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD). (Photo by Charlie Villegas / OVP)
“It’s 2021 and the trolls are still recycling lies (facepalm emoji). The picture was taken in March 2016. The slippers were given away by Mayor Joy Belmonte at her birthday event, in support of our VP bid,” Robredo said in a Twitter post.
Published January 14, 2021, 4:31 PM
A total of 17 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from private sector are expected to be made available in the second semester to inoculate 8 million Filipinos from 39 local government units (LGUs).
These 39 LGUs, together with 300 donor companies and vaccine supplier AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Philippines, Inc., participated in the “A Dose of Hope” ceremonial Signing Wave 2.
(Go Negosyo / MANILA BULLETIN)
Those who signed Wave 2 of “A dose of Hope” were Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Philippines Inc. country president Lotis Ramin, Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, and Ambassador Daniel Pruce of the British Embassy.
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