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(CNN Philippines) Metro Manila – A total of 780,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses procured by the national government for the vaccination of children aged 5-11 arrived Friday night after being delayed for a day.

The Pfizer shots were supposed to be delivered Thursday night, but was pushed back the next day due to logistical issues.

The start of the vaccination of five to 11 year olds in some areas in Metro Manila and Calabarzon was also moved from Friday to Monday, Feb. 7, because of the delay.

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez said the rollout of vaccines for the age group in other regions will start on Feb. 14.

Galvez added the national government ordered 30 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shots for the first six months of the year, half of those are expected to arrive in the first quarter.

He said another shipment of 780,000 doses will be delivered to the country on Feb. 12 or 14, while 1.2 million doses will arrive in the third week of February.

“Ang panawagan po natin sa ating mga magulang, kailangan po talaga mabuo ‘yung ating programa na buong pamilya po ang ating mabakunahan,” Galvez told CNN Philippines’ News Night on Friday.

[Translation: We are appealing to our parents, we need to complete our program of the whole family being vaccinated against COVID-19.]

Galvez also said vaccinating children will help ease movement restrictions and allow the gradual return to face-to-face classes… Read More

(SunStar) WHILE mandatory quarantine is no longer required for returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) on Friday, February 4, 2022, said it expects some 10 percent to still need to stay in hotel facilities.

In a virtual press briefing, Owwa Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said not all returning OFWs are expected to skip quarantine requirements.

“The guidelines only cater to the fully vaccinated. Those not fully vaccinated still need to be quarantined,” said Cacdac.

“By our estimates, there is around 10 percent of arrivals still needing to be billeted,” he added.

The Owwa chief cited as basis the number of OFWs that were discharged from quarantine by February 1, when the new guidelines took effect.

“There are some 1,500 OFWs still currently in quarantine facilities. This was a drastic reduction as compared to around 9,000 two weeks ago,” said Cacdac.

Given such decongestion of quarantine facilities, the labor official noted how it will benefit returning OFWs as they will have more time with their families… Read More

(SunStar) THE Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, February 3, 2022, reported for the third straight day below 10,000 fresh cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the Philippines.

In its 4 p.m. Thursday case bulletin, the DOH logged 8,702 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country’s caseload to 3,586,461.

The health department said of the 8,702 reported cases Thursday, 8,463 occurred from January 21 to February 3.

The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were Western Visayas with 1,039 cases or 12 percent, Central Visayas with 799 or nine percent and Davao Region with 785 or nine percent.

The Philippines’ positivity rate stood at 25.5 percent from the 42,446 tested on February 1.

Active cases nationwide also decreased slightly to 153,335 or 4.3 percent of the total cases.

Of the active cases, 96.8 percent were mild and asymptomatic, or 144,493 and 4,923 cases, respectively. A total of 3,067 were moderate, 1,528 were severe, and 324 were critical active cases.

The country’s death toll also increased to 54,168, with 71 mortalities reported Thursday. The fatality rate stood at 1.51 percent… Read More

(BusinessWorld) PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo R. Duterte, 76, is under quarantine after he was exposed to household staff who tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman said on Thursday.

“The President has since been tested for COVID-19, and while the results of the test came back negative, he is currently observing mandatory quarantine protocols,” presidential spokesman Karlo Alexei B. Nograles said in a statement.

Mr. Duterte was exposed to someone with the virus on Jan. 30 and his negative RT-PCR test result came out on Monday, he said. The President took another RT-PCR test and tested negative on Feb. 1.

Meanwhile, Mr. Nograles said Mr. Duterte visited Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan “for his routine medical check-up only.”

He said the president continues to work while in quarantine and was communicating with Cabinet members “to ensure that urgent matters are addressed and to monitor the implementation of his directives, particularly with regard to the government’s pandemic response.”

Mr. Duterte has been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. He also got a booster shot early this month, Mr. Nograles said… Read More

(Pep.ph) Hindi nakaiwas ang beauty queen-actress na si Janelle Lewis sa tanong ng reporters tungkol sa kanila ni Kiko Estrada nang dumalo siya sa press preview ng pelikulang Takas sa Cinema ‘76 sa Aurora Blvd., Quezon City, noong Lunes, January 31. 2022 .

Napangiti ang 1st runner-up ng Miss World Philippines nang tinanong siya kung may boyfriend ba siya ngayon.
“Patay tayo diyan. Yes po,” parang nahihiya niyang sagot.
Alam niyang si Kiko ang tinutukoy namin.
Sinundan namin ng tanong kung gaano na sila katagal bilang magkasintahan.
“Na-caught off guard ako dun, a!” natatawa pa niyang pahayag.
“A few months pa lang po kami. I won’t say how many na lang, para wala na pong isyu na lumabas na baka sabihing third party ako or anything.”

Gusto lang linawin ni Janelle na walang overlap dahil matagal na raw break sina Kiko at Heaven Peralejo bago sila nagkakilala.

“They were finished a few months before I came in to the picture,” sabi pa ni Janelle… Read More

(SunStar) OVER 9,000 new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) were added to the Philippines’ tally Tuesday, February 1, along with 24,201 additional recoveries and 51 deaths.

The Department of Health (DOH) said the 9,493 new cases announced Tuesday raised the country’s total caseload to 3,569,665.

Of the newly reported cases, 6,961 or 73 percent occurred in the last 14 days (January 19-February 1, 2022).

The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were the National Capital Region (NCR) with 1,041 or 15 percent, Calabarzon with 775 or 11 percent, and Central Luzon with 696 cases (10 percent).

The new recoveries, meanwhile, pushed the total number of patients who have managed to recover from the disease to 3,339,558.

The 24,210 recoveries also brought the total active cases in the Philippines down to 176,053, from Monday’s (January 31) 190,818.

Of the active infections, 6,133 were asymptomatic, 164,995 were mild, 3,070 were moderate, 1,529 were severe and 326 were in critical condition, the DOH said.

The 51 new deaths raised the death toll to 54,054, or a fatality rate of 1.51 percent… Read More

(CNN Philippines) Metro Manila — The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has recommended the filing of criminal charges against Health Secretary Francisco Duque and several others linked to the government’s allegedly anomalous purchase of COVID-19 pandemic supplies.

In the partial committee report released on Tuesday, senators tagged Duque for violations of the anti-graft and corruption law, as well as plunder over the supposed misuse of the crisis response funds.

The lawmakers particularly noted how the Health chief moved over ₱40 billion from his agency to the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (PS-DBM) to supposedly hasten the purchase of medical supplies.

“Even after the multi-billion peso inter-agency transfer, DOH was purchasing supplies at considerably lower prices than that of PS-DBM,” read the 113-page committee report.

Duque, for his part, said if ever the report will adopted, his camp will fully cooperate with the court’s processes as they have “nothing to hide.”.. Read More

(BusinessWorld) THE JUSTICE department has directed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to validate an anonymous tip of a supposed assassination plot against presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos based on a video posted on social media platform TikTok.

Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said in a Viber message on Sunday that the NBI will prioritize any validated information on threats to the security of any presidential candidate.

Charito A. Zamora, director of the Department of Justice (DoJ) Office of Cybercrime confirmed in a separate Viber message that the agency received reports of threats made on TikTok to assassinate the late dictator’s son.

“We made an initial investigation on the matter and referred the same to the NBI-CCD & PNP-ACG (police anti-cybrecrime group) for further investigation,” Ms. Zamora said.

“We also emailed the Tik Tok Law Enforcement Outreach and requested the data related to the subject account be preserved pending investigation by the law enforcement agents concerned,” she said. .. Read More