On the final day of presidential election campaigning, the son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was scheduled to address hundreds of thousands of fans, as polls predicted a landslide victory. Victory in Monday’s election would cap a decades-long effort to rehabilitate the Marcos legacy after the patriarch was deposed and the disgraced clan chased … Read more
MANILA: An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rocked Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on Thursday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The magnitude was first reported as 6.2 before being revised to 5.7 by the institution. The quake struck at a depth of 96 kilometers, roughly 136 kilometers … Read more
The death toll from Tropical Storm Megi’s landslides and flooding has increased to 167, with 110 still missing, according to the government on Saturday. A total of 164 people lost their lives in the central Philippines, while three people perished in the southern Philippines, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. At … Read more
MANILA – The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,534 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,655,709. The DOH said 201 more people died from COVID-19 complications, pushing the death toll to 55,977. The number of active cases dipped to 55,449 as the country’s … Read more
MANILA – The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,010 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,641,940. The DOH said 52 more people died from COVID-19 complications, bringing the country’s death toll to 55,146. The number of active cases dropped to 72,305 as the … Read more
MANILA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — The highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant has raced ahead of Delta and is now the dominant variant in the Philippines, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said late Monday night. In a pre-recorded meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte aired late Monday night, Duque said that the newest genome sequencing showed over … Read more
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered military and police to airlift Covid-19 vaccines across the country’s provinces to bypass “gridlocks” in jab distribution that he blamed on local governments. While nearly 90 per cent of adults in the capital region are fully vaccinated, only about 35 per cent of adults in the country have had both jabs. … Read more
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $200 million loan to support the Philippine government’s effort to provide emergency cash subsidies to vulnerable households amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “This global pandemic, of a kind not seen in the last century, has disrupted the livelihoods of millions of Filipinos and could set … Read more
