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Last month, Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy denied the existence of a group of indigenous peoples in the country referred to as “Lumad,” wrongly claiming that it is a “made up word” of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its allied organizations to forward their agenda.
After a five-day delay, the much-awaited first shipment of 600,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from China arrived in the country on Sunday, Feb. 28. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Jr. earlier said the Feb. 23 delivery was already cast in stone, but it wound up being delayed because manufacturers wanted an indemnity agreement.
In a video statement on Feb. 21, SAGIP Party-list Representative Rodante Marcoleta mistakenly claimed that teachers sit last in the government’s vaccination program against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
It has been 23 years since the Department of Health conducted its largest inoculation drive involving 22.9 million Filipinos aged 9 to 14 for the measles-rubella supplemental immunization activity, according to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire.
Voting unanimously, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed “the entire electoral protest” that former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo to wrestle the country’s second highest post.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shared on Facebook (FB) a column published in The Manila Times that bore inaccurate claims about the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s death and supposed ties to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.
In his social media accounts on Feb. 1, former senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV cited incorrect data on Israel’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program. His claim on the vaccination status of the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs context.
From asserting, at least three times, that the government's agreement with Chinese firm Sinovac on the procurement of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was already a "done deal," Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque now says it is "not yet final."
From seeing "sense" in the Department of National Defense's (DND) unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines (UP), Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson now says it should "go back to the drawing board."
