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Vaccines not panacea for poor COVID-19 response
Health advocate and community doctor Josh San Pedro said that mass testing remains important amid the increasing number of cases, and the new coronavirus variant, which is proving to be more transmissible. After all, vaccines have no 100 efficacy rate and that chances of getting infected remain.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Under the world’s longest and strictest COVID-19 lockdown, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly proclaimed that the answer to the pandemic is “only vaccine.” Such declaration came amid mounting criticisms to government’s poor response.
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Team Alamat UP
The team won the Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles Challenge for their mobile application CERO, which helps motorists reduce their fuel consumption by up to 15%, allowing them to both save on fuel costs and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
Hailing from a variety of different fields, including chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and business administration, Team Alamat UP’s big win was brought home by members Matthew Solomon Arjonillo; Esther Pauline Bacay; John Cagape; Paolo Ricco Gauma; Althea Patricia Laza; FuLin Li; Aleandro Sta. Ana; Jan Goran Tomacruz; and Marc Adrian Yu.
Pitch The Future is a recent integration into the Shell Eco-marathon (SEM) program, one of the world’s leading student engineering competitions that requires teams from across the globe to compete in a series of contests in solving real-world energy challenges. It is only the first in a series of student initiatives in the new Virtual League of SEM.
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Photo of Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio (source: https://bit.ly/3rFHKhy)
Best known for her work with puppets and childrenâs theater, National Artist for Theater Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio died on Dec. 29. This was announced by Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas, the theater group she had founded, through a Facebook post.
âIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of National Artist Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, University of the Philippines Professor Emeritus and Founding Artistic Director of Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas at 7 a.m. today, Dec. 29, 2020 at the age of 90,â said the post. Lapeña-Bonifacio founded Teatrong Mulat in 1977 as a childrenâs theater and puppet theater company.