The government has imposed travel restrictions on more than 30 countries after the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was detected in the country this week. The new variant, while not more lethal, is believed to be 50-70 percent more infectious. A Filipino male who arrived from the United Arab Emirates last Jan. 7 yielded positive genome sequencing results of the UK variant, according to the Department of Health (DOH). Contact tracing of
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the issues surrounding the acquisition of safe and effective vaccines, it is easy to forget other significant events that shook the country and profoundly shaped the course of our politics in the succeeding years. One of these is Edsa Dos (Edsa 2), whose 20th anniversary falls exactly today, Jan. 17. Hardly anyone now cares to commemorate this event. Very few young Filipinos know about it. It is not taught in school the same way Edsa 1 — the original People Power Revolution of 1986 — is discussed as marking the end of tyranny and the recovery
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