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YOUNG VACCINEES. Some teenagers are accompanied by their parents and guards line up to get their first dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine during the last day of the "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" vaccination drive at The Tent, DIHS (former DNHS Main High School), Barangay Burol 1, City of Dasmarinas, Cavite on Dec. 1, 2021. The city government has provided an additional vaccination site for minors aged 12 to 17 years old walk-in vaccinees. (PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - The Philippines has administered a total of 7,628,432 doses of Covid-19 vaccine during the massive national vaccination d...

(Image courtesy of Department of Health) MANILA - The Philippines is ranked fourth among countries worldwide that have the highest recorded number of administered Covid-19 vaccines in a single day, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Thursday. "The latest report is that ang Pilipinas ay nasa number 4 globally, ang rank natin (the Philippines is ranking number 4 globally) for having jabbed 2.7 million in a day," Duque said, noting that the country has so far hit as thrice than its usual vaccination rate during the rollout of the Bayanihan, Bakunahan Covid-19 vaccination drive. T...

(Photo courtesy of DOH-Cordillera) BAGUIO CITY - The city government is preparing for a possible surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases amid the looming threat of the Omicron variant, starting with the procurement and stocking of treatment pills. Mayor Benjamin Magalong on Wednesday night said the city has still enough supply of remdesivir and dexamethasone, which are among essential medicines for Covid-19 patients. "It will entail so many funds and it was timely that we were assured by a donor over the weekend that they are going to donate molnupiravir oral drugs which has a ...

ABANDONING NPA. The 186 supporters of the New People's Army (NPA) during a mass surrender in Carigara, Leyte on Nov. 26, 2021. These surrenderers are from the town's 10 villages. (PNA file photo) MANILA - Over 20,000 people linked to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) have surrendered and abandoned the local armed struggle through the effective whole-of-nation approach of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). During the virtual press briefing of the NTF-ELCAC on Monday, Defense Unders...

S-PaSS. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has made it easier for the traveling public to secure their requirements online by developing the Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage (S-PaSS) travel management system last year. The project was developed by the DOST Western Visayas funded through the grants-in-aid program and is now being utilized by 96 out of the 121 provinces and highly urbanized cities (HUCs) in the country.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has recorded 3,981,310 million users of the Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage (S-PaSS) trave...