Ninety percent of Makati City’s elderly population are already fully vaccinated, owing to the local government’s house-to-house effort to help them register for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) jabs. In a television interview, Mayor Abby Binay reported 39,958 senior citizens are now fully vaccinated as of Thursday. Binay said City Hall staff assisted the elders in the registration process by visiting them at home. “After they register, pwede na sila pumunta sa vaccination. It’s as if nag-walk-in sila (they can now proceed to the vaccination site. It’s as if they walked in to the inoculation center),” she said on Friday.

Residents in the entire province of Ilocos Norte are strongly urged to be extra careful as more Delta variant cases have been confirmed in the province. In a public statement on Thursday evening, Governor Matthew Joseph Manotoc relayed a report from the Department of Health (DOH) that at least seven new Delta cases were detected in seven towns of the province. “This is what we’ve been fearing and anticipating all along. This isn’t the same virus we’ve dealt with in the past. Even nationally, regionally, globally, cases are on the rise,” said Manotoc as he assured the Provincial Health Task

At least 5,957 market vendors, farmers, and tricycle drivers in this city have received their first dose of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines as of August 12. In a statement issued on Friday, the city government said the number of individuals inoculated is part of the 18,126 workers who registered under the A4 priority group here. “The city government recognizes that vaccinating the workers of San Fernando City is crucial in ensuring the health of our citizens and economy. As such, the City Vaccination Task Force is facilitating the A4 vaccination rollout as speedily as possible given the limited vaccine

The Department of Health in Davao Region (DOH-11) has increased the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine allocation for the province of Davao del Norte, an official said Friday. In a statement, Provincial Health Office (PHO) head Dr. Alfredo Lacerona said just this week, their office received 17,000 doses of Sinovac which was also immediately distributed to 11 local government units (LGUs). “In the entire region we get a larger allocation of the vaccine because of our good performance, and our vaccination is very fast,” said Lacerona, who is also chief of the province’s Covid-19 Task Force Incident Command. Lacerona said

The detection of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) variants of concern has prompted the municipal government of Arteche in Eastern Samar to re-implement the use of travel passes and reactivate the border checkpoint. Mayor Roland Boie Evardone said in a phone interview Friday their town has recorded confirmed cases of the Delta, United Kingdom (UK), and African variants. The three patients are from the villages of Garden and Carapdapan. Based on contact tracing, the patient who tested positive for the Delta variant had seven close contacts, while the patient with the African variant had two. The UK variant-positive had none. To

Leaders of the United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED) based in Negros Occidental have called on Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte to “seriously consider” running for president in the May 2022 elections. “We strongly believe that among the presidentiables, Mayor Sara is the candidate who will have the sugar industry’s interest at heart, as her father President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had, by supporting and enabling the agriculture sector in achieving food self-sufficiency,” the UNIFED, headed by president Manuel Lamata, said in a manifesto of support that came out in publications here on Friday. UNIFED, which has more than 30,000 member-planters across