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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): In a first of its kind, a laser-powered device that can trap and move a single virus around using light has been created in Singapore.
So far, it has been proven to work on adenoviruses, which are of similar size to Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco (File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives is targeting to transmit its approved version of the 2022 General Appropriations Bill to the Senate on or before October 27 to give senators ample time to examine the government's spending plan for next year, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said on Friday. In a statement, Velasco said the House-approved version of the proposed 2022 national budget contained institutional amendments designed to help boost the government's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) response, as well as upgrade the assets of the Phili...
House of Representatives Session Hall (File photo) MANILA - House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez assured on Friday that the introduction of institutional amendments to the 2022 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) is aboveboard. Romualdez said the PHP65.5 billion worth of realignments by the small committee in the proposed PHP5.024-trillion national budget for 2022 is constitutional. The spending measure was approved on September 30 and is eyed for transmission to the Senate not later than October 27. Romualdez said the amendments would help address the country's need for more Covid-19 vacc...
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives has allocated PHP20 billion for the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines and booster shots, as well as PHP4.5 billion for the special risk allowance of public and private health care workers. House Appropriations Committee chair Eric Yap said these are among the amendments introduced by the small committee to House Bill 10153 or the proposed PHP5.024-trillion budget for 2022, which would be "crucial for our full recovery from the pandemic as a nation". "After careful consideration and consultations, we have finalized the amendme...