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The Marcoses have been found guilty of amassing ill-gotten wealth in several instances.

Provincial health authorities have clarified that the deaths were not found to be related to the COVID-19 vaccines.

This is not the first time the YouTube channel published disinformation propping up the supposed tandem.

This claim made by Dante Maravillas could mislead because he omitted the limitations of the Israel-based study and did not properly define the term “natural immunity."

This post is fake. Don't believe it.

Lowering the minimum age of persons who can buy, sell, or use vapes and electronic cigarettes to 18 years old means giving younger people access to products with adverse health effects and which could lead to substance abuse, medical and health experts say.

There is no report of any imprisonment as there are no cases filed against the health secretary, although the Senate blue ribbon committee and the House committee on public accounts began last month separate inquiries into the DOH's handling of COVID-19 multi-billion funds following a recent Commission on Audit (COA) report flagging “deficiencies” in the agency’s pandemic budget.

President Rodrigo Duterte cannot seem to make up his mind on what to do with Health Secretary Francisco Duque’s stay in the Cabinet amid calls for the latter’s resignation over deficiencies in the Department of Health’s (DOH) documentation of more than P67 billion of COVID-19 funds.

Disagreeing on the use of face masks as protective gear, actor Crispin “Pen” Medina claimed the novel coronavirus “can go through any mask” because it is extremely small. This lacks context.

It was filed in 2014.

House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta claimed that former Supreme Court (SC) associate justice Antonio Carpio filed a case against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in March 2019. This is false.

The national government is extending until Aug. 31 its distribution of cash aid worth P1,000 to P4,000 to 10.8 million individuals in the National Capital Region (NCR). But neither Duterte nor the DSWD has announced a separate financial assistance scheme for mothers.

The false post has been around since 2018.

Almost two years into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, variants of the novel coronavirus are getting “fitter and better” at transmission in humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The cash prizes and other incentives given by business executives and private companies to Hidilyn Diaz, the Philippines’ first ever Olympic gold medalist, are subject to donor’s tax, according to Palace Spokesman Harry Roque. This is false.

It showed fake copies of Marcos’ last will and testament.

He even fought in a wrestling match this month.

The Commission on Audit (COA) recently became the second independent constitutional body that got a tongue-lashing from President Rodrigo Duterte. After castigating the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on several occasions for its critical stand on his war on drugs, the president has turned his ire on COA over its findings noting “deficiencies” in P67.32 billion of the Department of Health’s (DOH) spending of the COVID-19 response funds.

The Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control has given more information about the child's hospitalization.

Before and after the dubious video was posted on Aug. 19, President Rodrigo Duterte had declared full support for Duque amid calls for his resignation. During his weekly briefing on Monday night (Aug. 23), the president reiterated he would not ask his health secretary to quit, but would accept his resignation if he did so voluntarily. There has been no word from Duque since.

Barely 15 months after President Rodrigo Duterte banned “the use, sale or purchase of e-cigarettes and tobacco products” to persons below 21 years old, the House of Representatives approved a bill lowering to 18 the minimum age of persons who can buy heated tobacco products (HTPs) and electronic nicotine/non-nicotine delivery systems (ENDs/ENNDS).

Roque dubbed the quote card as “fake news” while a media outfit whose logo is visible in the graphic denied and denounced the post.

The same fake list also circulated among Filipinos in March.

There are no records from the ICC that support this, and neither has any local nor international media reported on it.