VERA Files
Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.
Months after the World Health Organization (WHO) identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, a team of virologists from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was tasked to focus on a project to assess the pandemic potential of local animals.
The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were periods of anxiety, fear, paranoia, even plain cluelessness.
The photos of people swimming and frolicking on the beach in the central and southern regions are misleading.
On the 11th month of the pandemic lockdown, TV viewers in Metro Manila and the provinces suddenly found themselves watching a drastic change in TV programming.
Unless it has reached a person’s lungs, the bubonic plague does not spread from person to person.
This is a call to action for each and every one of us to protect wildlife and the environment.