[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Senate and House have agreed to set aside at least P72 billion specifically for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine under the proposed 2021 budget, Sen. Sonny Angara said Wednesday. After the bicameral conference committee adopted and approved the final version of the proposed national budget …
Read More »Commercial chief López tests positive for coronavirus
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Commerce Secretary Ramón López announced Wednesday that he tested positive for the new coronavirus (COVID-19). In a message to reporters, López said he was tested Sunday after being exposed to a person who tested positive. He said the results of his tests were released Monday. “I …
Read More »The first COVID vaccine to be implemented in HP is likely to come from China – Galvez
[ad_1] Carlito Gálvez Jr., Presidential Peace Advisor and Chief Response Executor for the National COVID-19 Task Force, FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The first COVID-19 vaccine the Philippines could get will likely come from China, the government’s chief of pandemic response implementation and vaccine czar Carlito Gálvez Jr. said Wednesday. …
Read More »With the vaccine closer and closer, the US exceeds 15 million cases of coronavirus
[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a vial labeled “COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine” on dry ice in this illustration taken on December 5, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration NEW YORK – U.S. coronavirus cases crossed the 15 million mark on Tuesday as regulators moved one step closer to approving …
Read More »PH faces a longer and shallower recovery
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ return to pre-pandemic economic growth levels will take longer than expected, and next year’s expansion is likely to continue to be limited by downside risks, including challenges to vaccine distribution. against coronavirus. Thus concluded economists and investment managers who spoke in an online forum …
Read More »Traffic jams speed up resolution seeking Senate review of toll road contracts
[ad_1] TOLL HOLIDAY An employee of the City of Valenzuela Public Safety Division informs motorists passing by the Mindanao Avenue toll booth that Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian has suspended the North Expressway operator’s business permit due to its flawed implementation of the electronic toll collection system. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE MANILA, …
Read More »ILO seeks help for seafarers stranded by COVID-19
[ad_1] The families of the stranded seafarers and OFWs arrive at the Department of Foreign Affairs in the city of Pasay on Friday, July 17, 2020, requesting dialogue in person after multiple online requests to the department for the repatriation of their relatives. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News NEW YORK – …
Read More »Indictment lawsuit against Leonen, a Marcos tactic – Pangilinan
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The impeachment case against Associate Supreme Court Justice Marvic Leonen could be part of an elaborate conspiracy to increase former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s chances of winning his election protest against Vice President Leni Robredo, the Senator Francis Pangilinan suggested Tuesday. “It is a corrupt, …
Read More »One more for Cone | Business mirror
[ad_1] From the beginning, Tim Cone finds himself on familiar ground. Like fish in the water. That’s the incontrovertible truth in the ongoing seven-game series between Cone’s Barangay Ginebra and Bong Ravena’s TNT at the University of Angeles Foundation gym in Pampanga. The highly favored Cone is one game away …
Read More »WHO says vaccine immune barrier ‘is still far away’
[ad_1] Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in Britain to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital, at the start of the largest immunization program in British history, in Coventry, Great Britain December 8, 2020. …
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