Newly-elected mayors of the municipalities of Laua-an and San Remigio train their sights on the promotion of agri-tourism sites and delivery of basic services once they assume post noontime of June 30, 2022. Laua-an returning mayor Aser Baladjay, in an interview Wednesday, said he has plans to revive the agri-tourism industry in their municipality dubbed the “Muscovado Capital” of Antique when he was mayor in 2008. “Our municipality had been known for its muscovado or brown sugar production because during my term then as mayor we had several activities launched to promote the industry,” he said. Several hectares of land
As the frontline government agency dedicated to protect media workers, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) through its Executive Director, Undersecretary Joel M. Sy Egco, thanked the men and women of the Philippine National Police (PNP) for their invaluable contribution to the peaceful national and local elections and for ensuring the safety of journalists. “I am very happy to say that no journalist or broadcaster was harmed during the elections, a testament to the government’s continued vigilance in providing a safe environment for media workers through the task force,” Egco said in a news release on Wednesday. “I
An infectious diseases expert is not discounting the possible rise in the number of Covid-19 infections after the election week. In a televised public briefing Wednesday, Dr. Rontgene Solante, Vaccine Experts Panel member, said there had been super spreader events prior to the election day such as political sorties where minimum public health standards were violated. “In fact, meron tayo mga nakitaan ngayon na ibang mga pasyente na merong mga mild symptoms lang naman, and they are positive, so, ibig sabihin dun nakuha ‘yan, either sa presinto or before siya bumoto at bumoto siya nakuha niya (We’ve seen patients with
A health expert said extensive lockdown is no longer being considered an option to curb possible surge of Covid-19 cases when highly transmissible subvariants of Omicron enter the country. In a televised public briefing Wednesday, Dr. Rontgene Solante, Vaccine Experts Panel member, said monitoring of the hospital utilization rate nationwide is more important than lockdowns. Department of Health data on May 9 showed that only 14.5 percent or 4,546 out of 26,811 hospital beds dedicated for Covid-19 patients are utilized nationwide. Apart from monitoring healthcare facilities, Solante said it was important to encourage people to be tested for Covid-19 when
The Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH WV CHD) is expanding its catch-up immunization to other provinces of the region this May and June to close the wide gap for vaccine-preventable diseases for over 52,000 children below two years old. “Our 2021 data has shown that our coverage is 64.36 percent. This is second to the lowest since 2015, a remarkable decrease compared with our 2020 coverage (70.94 percent). There is an increased immunity gap that we have to close that is why we are doing our catch-up immunization,” said National Immunization Program (NIP) medical coordinator
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said a visit to Ukraine made him aware of a convergence of global crises like the war there, the coronavirus pandemic, a worldwide food and energy crisis and migration and climate issues that need solving with “real global leadership.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was asked at a webinar on the Covid-19 pandemic by a journalist about the current focus on Ukraine, which he recently visited for three days, prompting him to issue another call to Russia to stop the war. “Of course, the focus on Ukraine is very justifiable
