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The Zamboanga City Hall. (PNA file photo) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The city government has further accelerated its vaccination campaign here by innovating strategies to reach out to the targeted eligible population. Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said Monday the innovations include house-to-house vaccination, mobile vaccination, and drive-thru vaccination, among others. "Let us help in our vaccination campaign by convincing our family members to get vaccinated," Salazar said. The house-to-house vaccination is focused on barangays within a seven-kilometer radius of the city while the mo...

FACE-TO-FACE. The Department of Education (DepEd) Leyte field office. At least 26 more schools in Leyte province will participate in the limited face-to-face classes on March 7, 2022, an education official announced on Thursday.(File photo) TACLOBAN CITY - At least 26 more schools in Leyte province will participate in the limited face-to-face classes on March 7, the Department of Education (DepEd) field office here announced on Thursday. Included in the list are five schools in Barugo town, two in Tanauan, six in Palo, four in Abuyog, four in Bato, four in Mayorga, and one in Mahaplag town. Th...

THERAPEUTIC FOOD. Mothers receiving ready-to-use therapeutic food for their children in Southern Leyte in this February 16 photo. Typhoon victims in Southern Leyte have been receiving this food to curb acute malnutrition arising from scarcity of nutritious food after the disaster.(Photo courtesy of National Nutrition Council) TACLOBAN CITY - Typhoon Odette's victims in Southern Leyte have been receiving ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to curb acute malnutrition arising from scarcity of nutritious food after the disaster. National Nutrition Council (NNC) Eastern Visayas regional nutrit...

TYPHOON HIT. Children outside an evacuation center in Macrohon, Southern Leyte in this Dec. 17, 2021 photo. The National Nutrition Council has expressed concern over the nutrition status of children affected by Typhoon Odette. (Photo courtesy of Gerico Sabalza) TACLOBAN CITY - Concerns have been raised over possible cases of acute malnutrition in Southern Leyte due to scarcity of nutritious food after Typhoon Odette. National Nutrition Council (NNC) Eastern Visayas regional nutrition program coordinator Catalino Dotollo said such cases are expected due to the absence of nutrition-dense food in...

MANILA - The nation's total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases has reached 2,758,235 after 3,152 new recoveries were reported on Sunday. In its latest case bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) noted that recoveries account for 97.6 percent of the total case count which has reached 2,826,410 since the start of the pandemic last year. Meanwhile, some 2,227 new infections brought the total number of active cases nationwide to 21,101. About 56.9 percent of these active cases are mild, 4.4 percent are asymptomatic, 5.5 percent are critical, 13 percent are severe, ...