MANILA – Motorcycle ride-hailing app Angkas is now extending their help to the frontliners in Manila by providing for their free transportation Motorcycle ride-hailing app Angkas in partnership with Manila Mayor Isko Moreno. According to Moreno, Angkas also donated shields/barriers in the turnover held yesterday. Under the agreement sign by Moreno and Angkas chief transport advocate George Royeca, the company …

MANILA – Former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, passed away Saturday, August 8. He was 90 years old. Lim’s daughter, Christy Lim-Raymundo, confirmed the news in a Facebook post on Saturday. According to Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso, the cause of death is Covid-19. He also asked the public to offer prayers and ordered to turn off the lights on …

MANILA – The Manila City government on Wednesday officially opened its own drive-thru coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) testing center to further booth their mass testing efforts. For Twitter users who missed it: The Manila City government has already started providing mass testing in the nation’s capital. #ManilaMassTesting #AlertoManileno #COVID19PH pic.twitter.com/tXkC7MsiGc— Manila Public Information Office (@ManilaPIO) July 17, 2020 According to Manila …

It is shocking that the National Capital Region (NCR), has 8,245 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with a doubling duration (the span needed for the number of cases to double) of 5.53 days as of May 18, which was confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH). During the online hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Metro Manila …

MANILA – Tropical depression Ambo maintained its strength on Monday evening and is expected to brings rains in different parts of the country this week,  the state weather bureau said Tuesday. The Philippines’ first storm in 2020 was 330 km east of Surigao del Sur as of 3pm Monday with maximum sustained winds of 55 km per hour near the …

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Human Rights has appealed to the Department of Transportation on Friday, to revisit its policy that would ban elderly persons and pregnant women from riding the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transits (LRT) when the proposed general community quarantine takes into effect. CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit said that she urged DOTr to …

Metro Manila – Marikina City’s COVID-19 testing laboratory has finally been accredited by The Department of Health (DOH), Mayor Marcelino Teodoro announced on Thursday, April 30. The local government got the approval a month after they first set up its Covid-19 testing lab to help to satisfy the standards required by the Health department.   “It is one of the …

Standing in the midst of a worldwide pandemic under quarantine is exhausting enough so consider the extra burden of being pregnant. Researchers are just starting to realize how COVID-19 will impact pregnant women and their unborn children and as the community is focused on protecting the disabled and other disadvantaged populations, pregnant women may be ignored. During breastfeeding, the immune …

A developer based in Manila and the Philippines ‘task force against the dreaded disease have introduced an online and smartphone application that can monitor individuals displaying COVID-19 symptoms. Developed by Multisys Technologies Corporation, StaySafe.ph allows users to disclose both their health status and that of members of their family. The National Task Force against COVID-19 said in a statement that …

Three survivors of COVID-19 donated blood to Philippine General Hospital for an experimental procedure to support patients with serious coronavirus symptoms. Seafarer Ian Ceasar Frias and nurses Kai Soriano and Galey Arranz went through the apheresis blood donation process, where convalescent plasma was collected from donors, at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine’s Paz Mendoza Hall in Manila. …