The Duterte administration is assuring the nation that they were preparing to secure 148 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but an official acknowledged that this would also depend on the worldwide availability of vaccines, 80% of which had already been bought by other nations. The latest pronouncement of vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. came as the government seeks to ease …

The lawmakers sealed their agreement of the second to the last budget of the Duterte administration next year, plotting it on course for a timely passage that is crucial to ensure that new pandemic recovery initiatives are immediately supported. House and Senate budget leaders in a briefing that the P4.5-trillion proposed spending plan was accepted by their respective contingents, up …

KUALA LUMPUR – The Budget 2021 tabled last week did not sidelined Sarawak, rather helped the state to become developed by year 2030. According to Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim (GPS-Batang Lupar), The state were able to received a large portion of indirect allocation announced by Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz. Part of the allocation being …

METRO MANILA – The Department of Health’s (DOH) P2.5-billion allocation for COVID-19 vaccines in the 2021 national budget lacks some P10 billion to purchase coronavirus vaccines that will be enough to cover the 20 million Filipinos or 20% of the country’s population Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press briefing that DOH sent a recommendation that the …