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(Photos from Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles) Nograles recently distributed free VCO bottles to three hospitals in Metro Manila for distribution to some patients with mild symptoms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The hospital recipients were Caloocan City Medical Center, San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital, and Ospital ng Malabon. At least 61 patients confined in these hospitals have reportedly agreed to take VCO on top of COVID-19 treatments. “The DOST (Department of Science and Technolo...

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Published April 13, 2021, 12:25 AM After two weeks of the strictest lockdown phase, the National Capital Region Plus bubble has been placed under the less restrictive Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ).  Also placed under MECQ were Abra province and Santiago City in Isabela. More than a year after the entire Luzon was placed under ECQ for the first time, has the country made significant progress toward containing the contagion?  The national health emergency has spawned a severe ec...

Published April 12, 2021, 9:39 PM Over 1 million low-income people affected by the imposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus have received their one-time financial assistance amounting to more than P1 billion, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday evening, April 12. Citing the report from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) dated April 10, the DSWD said more than P1.1-billion supplemental ...

(Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP) Some local government units have reached out to the OVP for the Swab Cab project, but some of them are not yet ready to fill in the limitations that Vice President Leni Robredo’s office can provide.  Robredo said the LGU must do the groundwork in tracing probably positive COVID-19 patients, as well as their contacts. They should also provide isolation facilities for the positive cases.  “We can go to any city as long as the LGU is willing to partner with us...

Immunodeficiency state Due to the vaccine shortage, however, only patients with the first seven listed comorbidities will be prioritized for now as they are at highest risk of hospitalization and death. Those in the A3 group must show any of the following documents as proof of comorbidity, with some LGUs preferring the first two documents: Medical certificate issued within the last 18 months Medical prescription issued within the last six months Hospital records such as discharge summary ...

(Photo from VP Robredo’s Facebook page) In a Facebook post, the vice president said several people sent her photos of Tricia doing the swab test on the patients on the second day of the Swab Cab project in Malabon City, where the program was piloted. Malabon City Mayor Lenlen Oreta also posted a photo of Robredo’s daughter, who passed the physician licensure exam last year, doing the swabbing. “Nagulat ako ng malaman ko na si Dra. Tricia Robredo ang attending doctor sa ginawang SWAB CAB k...

(NAVOTAS LGU/ MANILA BULLETIN) The list of the qualified beneficiaries was based on the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act 1. The city has 27,906 qualified beneficiaries.  “For this week, we intend to distribute the P1,000-P4,000 cash aid to 10,309 Navoteño families. We have set up five distribution venues to ensure that everyone will be accommodated and served promptly,” Mayor Toby Tiangco said.   “We have posted in our social media account the ...

This article originally was published on World Resources Institute. In the aftermath of the 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. They used the open source InaSAFE platform to access real-time hazard data and modeled population data mapped down to the village level. This was made possible by the collaborative use of "open" data — data that is free to use, open l...

Published April 6, 2021, 11:20 AM There were no traces of physical injury on curfew violator Darren Manaog Peñaredondo who went viral after he reportedly died due to excessive exercise imposed on him and other violators, according to Lt. Col. Marlon Solero, General Trias Cavite Police Chief. Photo from Adrian Luceña’s Facebook account/ MANILA BULLETIN Peñaredondo’s story went viral on social media after he was allegedly forced to do strenuous exercise as punishment for violating quara...