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(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

(CNN Philippines) Metro Manila — Restrictions will be eased in Metro Manila as the capital region is placed under Alert Level 2 from Feb. 1 to 15, acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles announced on Sunday.

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases also deescalated the provinces of Batanes, Bulacan, Cavite, Rizal, Biliran, Southern Leyte and Basilan to Alert Level 2, Nograles added.

Metro Manila was under the stricter Alert Level 3 for a month as COVID-19 cases spiked in late December due to the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

The Department of Health earlier said the surge in Metro Manila peaked in mid-January. As of Friday, the capital region was classified as “moderate risk” for COVID-19.

Under Alert Level 2, establishments are allowed to operate at 50% to 70% capacity, depending on whether their operations are indoors or outdoors.

Bars, karaoke places, clubs, concert halls and theaters, and other venues with live voice or wind-instrument performers may operate up to 50% capacity indoors for fully vaccinated individuals, and up to 70% capacity outdoors, regardless of vaccination status. All staff must be fully inoculated… Read More

(CNN Philippines, January 27) Metro Manila — Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon on Thursday revealed she voted to disqualify Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos from the 2022 presidential race.

Guanzon — the presiding officer of the First Division handling the consolidated petitions against Marcos — disclosed her vote in an interview with CNN Philippines.

“Ang desisyon ko, ang boto ko, disqualified talaga siya. Kasi convicted siya of a crime involving moral turpitude,” Guanzon told News.PH.

“Apat na taon siyang hindi nag file ng income tax return, hindi siya nagbayad ng buwis. At hindi siya nagbayad ng multa sa Regional Trial Court,” she added.

[Translation: My decision, my vote, is that he is really disqualified. Because he’s convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. He did not file his income tax return, he did not pay taxes. He did not pay fines in the Regional Trial Court.]

Guanzon also argued that Marcos’ camp has not produced a certified copy of its claim that the former senator already settled his tax deficiencies… Read More

(PhilStar) MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has appointed Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Michael Ong as Court of Appeals (CA) associate justice.

Ong replaced Justice Samuel Gaerlan, who was promoted to the Supreme Court on Jan. 8, 2020.

Duterte signed Ong’s appointment on May 20, 2021, but it was received by Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo only on Wednesday.

Ong took his oath as CA associate justice before Gesmundo yesterday.

Malacañang expressed optimism that Ong would uphold the rule of law as associate justice of the appellate court.

Meanwhile, the Commission on Appointments has confirmed the nomination of Mario Lipana as commissioner of the Commission on Audit (COA)… Read More