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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente Sotto III congratulated Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday for being elected chair of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization (WHO), but added that the Most senators are still not satisfied with his performance. in the …

[ad_1] Secretary of Health Francisco Duque III / PHOTO by EDWIN BACASMAS MANILA, Philippines – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III was elected this year’s president of the Western Pacific regional committee of the World Health Organization. The Health Department said Wednesday that the committee is made up of 37 member …

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker performs a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swab test at a gym in Navotas City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on August 7, 2020. REUTERS / Eloisa Lopez MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,825 additional COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number …

[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 7) The country’s COVID-19 case count is approaching 330,000, after the Health Department reported 2,825 new infections on Wednesday. The latest report showed that the Philippines now has 329,673 detected cases, of which 49,989 are active cases or currently ill patients. According to DOH, …

[ad_1] A screenshot from BLACKPINK’s music video ‘Lovesick Girls’ (YG Entertainment) The latest music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, “Lovesick Girls,” will be edited and replaced, their agency said Wednesday, following a controversy over scenes that nurse groups criticized for sexualizing the profession. “We have decided to remove all …

[ad_1] The Department of Health, together with the Local Government Units, will carry out a supplementary immunization activity against measles, rubella and polio at the national level starting on October 26 of this year. In the Philippines, an estimated 2.4 million children under the age of five are susceptible to …

[ad_1] The White House that President Trump woke up to Tuesday morning was in utter chaos, even by the standards of the ravages of the Trump era. Attendees said the president’s voice was louder after he returned from the hospital Monday night, but that at times he still sounded like …

[ad_1] MANILA – The Filipino people still recovering from the effects of the pandemic are among the victims of the current dispute over speakers in the House of Representatives, a lawmaker said Wednesday. By allegedly manipulating the proposed 2021 budget, President Alan Peter Cayetano and his allies in the lower …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – “We’re supposed to be honorable,” AAMBIS-OWA Participating Representative Sharon Garin said Wednesday as she lamented how other lawmakers were drawn into the House of Representatives fight between President Alan Peter. Cayetano and the representative of Marinduque Lord Allan Velasco. Garin made the comment after she and …

[ad_1] (CNN) – The US Food and Drug Administration made clear Tuesday that it will want to see two months of follow-up data after volunteers receive their second dose of vaccine as part of clinical trials testing potential coronavirus vaccines. . That would make it difficult, if not impossible, for …