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By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
One of the promises or hypotheses of all these hurried vaccines is that as more people are vaccinated, COVID-19 cases and deaths will decline as people will no longer suffer severe cases of infection. Has this been achieved?
I personally wanted to see a quantitative answer to this question. I got data on vaccination by country from
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations. I chose countries with high vaccination rates. Then I checked their respective COVID-19 cases by country from
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries.
The result is interesting, or confusing. There are countries with high vaccination rates (at least one dose) of 45% to 69% of their total population and yet have rising cases. These are the Seychelles, the Maldives, Bahrain, and Mongolia.
May 10, 2021 THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental-North has distributed a total of 38 hectares of land to farmer-beneficiaries in Manapla and Escalante City recently.
In Manapla, over 32 hectares were distributed to 68 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in a certificate of land ownership award (Cloa) distribution and installation rites on May 5.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer Myrna Omaliao, who spoke at the activity, explained to the farmers their tax duties and other responsibilities as ARBs.
Omaliao urged farmer-beneficiaries to strive in cultivating their land in order to attain a bountiful harvest and economic stability, as she warned them not to engage in any illegal land transactions.
Comelec/MB
In a statement, the poll body said the reception of applications for registration will be from Mondays to Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Office of the Election Officer (OEO), or in satellite registration sites on Saturdays.
“Disinfection activities will be conducted at the end of each working day. But the OEOS will still abide by the disinfection day prescribed by their local government, if any,” it said.
Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said satellite registration may also be conducted once during weekdays, and no registration will be held at the local Comelec office on Saturdays.
“However, offsite registration may be conducted when the office is closed on the LGU-prescribed disinfection day,” he said.
Published May 9, 2021, 8:43 AM
Local chief executives (LCE) stand to face charges for dereliction of duty if they fail to enforce the prohibition or limitation on mass gatherings amid the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic.
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año made the warning on on Sunday, May 9, citing that the local government units (LGUs) have a critical role in enforcing mass gathering regulations as they are nearer to their constituencies compared to the national government.’
He said LCEs can adopt and implement guidelines and policies of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and enact necessary local policies to support these regulations.
QUEZON CITY, May 9 Following President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) directed all local chief executives (LCEs) to strictly impose the prohibition or limitation of mass gatherings under the different community quarantine classifications to protect public health and safety or face sanctions for dereliction of duty.
“Local government units (LGUs) have a critical role in enforcing mass gathering regulations as they are nearer to their constituencies compared to the national government. What LCEs can do is to adopt and implement guidelines and policies of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) as well as enact necessary local policies to support these regulations,” said DILG Secretary Eduardo Año.