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The Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. officer who admitted that the firm tampered with the expiration dates of face shields they delivered to the government can no longer be contacted, Sen. Richard Gordon said Sunday.Pharmally officer Krizle Grace Mago, who upon questioning by ...

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night removed the face shield requirement in outdoor areas but kept it in places with a high risk of COVID-19 transmission.Wearing of face shields will be limited to areas that fall under the 3Cs classification: ...

Only four vaccines against the coronavirus have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) so far. The EMA is the agency responsible for the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products in the bloc. The four vaccines are: 1| Comirnaty (BioNTech, Pfizer) ...

In the continuously evolving COVID-19 pandemic fight (and dictionary), authorities have introduced a new term to Filipinos: population protection.Forget herd immunity as the yearend goal. The government is now eyeing population protection against COVID-19 before the end of the ...

It's the end of an era for FM radio in Metro Manila. On May 11, 103.5 KLite announced that it is parting ways with its staff and DJs, although it did say that the station "will continue without us." The ...

The pandemic has made one thing apparent: when the going gets tough, the tough get... hoarding-at least those who can afford it. It's understandable as we're all in survival mode, and we can't really count on others to ...

With over 800,000 recorded cases of COVID-19 infections in the country as of April 5, it's not inconceivable to think that the Philippines will hit one million cases soon. According to the Department of Health, the number of active ...

This time last year when COVID-19 was still a relatively new word flashing in every headline, herd immunity was being brought up as a possible alternative to lockdowns. The idea shot down quickly. As epidemiologists have discussed before, the only time ...

It's been almost a year since a Luzon-wide lockdown was first announced, and the Philippines finally started vaccinating people against the virus this week. It might seem like a long time, but in the context of producing an antiviral agent, ...

Doctor Joseph Adrian Buensalido is an infectious disease specialist affiliated with the University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital, Asian Hospital, and Makati Medical Center. On Monday, March 1, he was one of the first medical professionals who received the vaccine ...

On a trip to Baguio organized by the Department of Tourism last November, I experienced firsthand how the city took stringent health protocols seriously. A negative antigen test 24 hours before your scheduled arrival, a health check on the city's outskirts, ...

Two instances of gross violations of current health protocols dominated social media over the past few days. Both involve relatively well-known personalities, and both were called out by livid netizens because they chose to celebrate their birthdays in public spaces in ...

Interest in chocolates may have spiked here in the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia last year in the midst of the pandemic, but business isn't looking so good for at least one famous brand. Godiva Chocolatier announced that it ...