VERA Files
While Marcos did not extend the state of calamity which ended in 2022, he has yet to lift the state of public health emergency which remains in effect.
Ang pangangampanya para sa darating na halalan sa Mayo 9 ay walang katulad sa kasaysayan ng bansa dahil sa coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Iboboto ng mga Pilipino ang bagong hanay ng mga pambansa at lokal na pinuno sa gitna ng isang rumaragasang pandemic na kumitil ng higit sa 50,000 buhay, halos pumilay sa ekonomiya, at humamon sa kakayahan ng mga kasalukuyang opisyal sa pagtugon sa krisis sa kalusugan ng publiko.
Sinabi ni AnaKalusugan party-list Rep. Michael “Mike” Defensor, kandidato sa pagka-alkalde ng Quezon City, na isang “bagong” ulat ng Commission on Audit (COA) ang “nagkuwestyon ng validity” ng P479-milyong halaga ng COVID-19 relief goods na binili noong 2020. Ito ay hindi totoo.
AnaKalusugan party-list Rep. Michael “Mike” Defensor, a candidate for mayor of Quezon City, claimed that a “new” Commission on Audit (COA) report “questioned the validity” of P479-million worth of COVID-19 relief goods procured in 2020. This is false.
As the government eyes a three-day National Vaccination Drive later this month, President Rodrigo Duterte reopened the issue on whether it is legal for businesses to turn down unvaccinated job applicants.
Halos dalawang taon na ang coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, at ang mga variant ng novel coronavirus ay nagiging “fitter and better” sa panghahawa ng sakit sa mga tao, ayon sa World Health Organization (WHO).
Isang VERA Files reader ang tumawag ng pansin sa caption ng Manila Times sa isang set ng mga litrato na nagsasabi na ang mga “health worker” sa Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital ay nagbanta na magwelga dahil sa hindi sapat na kabayaran. Hindi ito totoo.
A VERA Files reader has called attention to a Manila Times’ caption on a set of photos falsely claiming that “health workers” at the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital have threatened to stage a labor strike due to inadequate compensation.
Locally, vaccine wastage often happens due to “oversight in the monitoring of vaccine storage temperatures.”
In six days, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) retracted its resolution allowing local government units to accept vaccination cards or certificates of quarantine completion of fully vaccinated domestic travelers as “sufficient alternative[s]” to COVID-19 tests before travel or upon arrival at the destination.