Gov’t can’t afford COVID mass testing?
FIVE months since the coronavirus entered our country from foreign tourists, balikbayans and returning overseas Filipino workers, the government seems to be waving the...
‘Daig ng maagap ang masipag’
COUNTRIES and scientists around the world are racing to develop COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers have identified at least six variants of the new coronavirus that...
On the legal front
WE HAVE a new batch of lawyers. The timing of the recent release of results of last year’s Bar exams was somewhat providential. People...
Long-term pandemic measure
COVID-19 has exposed how ill-prepared our government is for pandemics.
We must learn from this bad experience. Post-COVID-19, for example, the government may set up...
Ample time to prepare
THE Department of Education has decided to open the school year in August. Good. This gives schools (administrators and teachers) and stakeholders more than...
Prudent course of action
THE national and local government units ought to be ready with the funds needed to procure ample supplies of the vaccines against COVID-19 as...
Food insecurity in the time of pandemic
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has disrupted supply chains, and this is more evident in our food supply. Since the enhanced community quarantine was imposed, food...
What’s the plan post-ECQ?
THE LIFTING of the extended enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) should have corresponding intensified medical solutions, otherwise the two-month lockdown would have been for nothing.
Surely,...
Tyranny under the shield of law
(We yield this space to the official statement of the Malacañang Press Corps due to its timelines. – Ed.)
THE MALACAÑANG Press Corps strongly condemns...
Adequate support, not hollow praises
AN OVERWHELMING majority of health workers are directly exposed to the risk of contracting COVID-19 but are highly unprotected. This is among the key...