A Jeepney passes another parked up on a highway in Pampanga, Central Luzon, the Philippines. Ten months after the Philippines stopped public transport amid one of the world’s strictest pandemic lockdowns, the tentative return of jeepneys to Manila’s streets reflects the economy’s halting and uneven road toward recovery. - Bloomberg MANILA (AFP): The Philippine economy shrank a record 9.5 per cent last year, official data has showed after coronavirus measures devastated the retail and tourism sectors while a series of natural disasters wrecked crops.
But Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said the outlook for this year was encouraging as measures introduced to contain the virus are eased further and the country prepares for a vaccination drive.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 2) Other frontline workers may also be among the first ones to be vaccinated against COVID-19, as the government considers the implementation of a flexible vaccination framework, Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Tuesday.
In a government briefing in Malacañang, Galvez said like other countries, the Philippines must adjust its vaccination framework as some Filipinos who are part of the upper list of priority groups but cannot be inoculated due to complications, may pave the way for others to get the doses ahead of them. Nakita natin sa experience sa Israel or US, dapat maging flexible ang framework. Nakikita po natin meron sa first priority, for example, meron po talagang hindi magpapabakuna because of complications, he said.
MANILA, Feb. 2 — The government is doing its best to weather the crippling effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said on Monday, noting mass inoculation could reverse the present situation.In his weekly public address on government response to the.
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