 Hi Edward, Here are the most important news that you need to know. With health-care workers protesting the delayed release of their benefits amid “unspent or misspent” billion-peso funds, health professionals have coalesced into a unified front, calling out the government for its insufficient response to the COVID-19 pandemic after more than a year. The Food and Drug Administration has allowed the emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on persons age 12 to 17, the second brand after Pfizer approved in the country for minors.  DUSTED OFF In Marikina City on Friday, old Christmas lanterns are brought out of storage to be repaired and reused by the local government, signaling that, indeed, the longest Yuletide season in the world has begun in these parts. — GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE  Employees and faculty at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman on Friday protested in campus against the 75-percent increase in the 2022 budget of the government’s anti-insurgency task force, amid a looming P1.3-billion budget cut for the state university. A fisherman who organized his fellow fisherfolk to revive the dying fishing industry of his hometown; an organizer of a microfinance institution that seeks to help eradicate poverty in Pakistan; a Bangladeshi scientist who devoted her life to the development of life-saving vaccines; the head of a humanitarian organization in Southeast Asia working with refugees and toward peace-building; and an independent media group using various platforms to crusade for social change in Indonesia. |
Friday, September 3, 2021
Health groups: gov’t COVID response ‘still not enough’
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