Pampanga capital ramps up vaccination for senior citizens
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—The City Health Office (CHO) here is ramping up efforts to inoculate more than 40,000 senior citizens against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—The City Health Office (CHO) here is ramping up efforts to inoculate more than 40,000 senior citizens against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Sixty-two-year-old Vicente Cometa of San Antonio, Quezon is proud of his farming roots. At the young age of 12, Cometa was already working in the fields, helping his father till the land.
Life begins at…99?
Angelito, Eman and Hammy. Why can’t I seem to forget them? I never had a deep connection with them. They came and then quietly vanished from my life but somehow they still linger in my mind even now like ectoplasmic presences. They never greatly influenced my life. Or did they?
BOCA RATON, Fla.—When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the Levis Jewish Community Center last year, 98-year-old Trudy Berlin sprang into action to keep her weekly women’s group active.
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) recently released the social pension of 29,360 indigent senior citizens in Antique.
IN line with the recent celebration of the 79th Fall of Corregidor anniversary, the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) launched a coffee-table book, titled Mandirigma-Uniforms and Equipment of The Filipino Warrior, 1935-1945, which tells the heroism of freedom-fighting Filipinos during World War II (WWII).Penned by Albert Labrador, Tony Feredo, Donn Fernandez and Dondi Limgenco, and edited by Dr. Ricardo T. Jose of the University of the Philippines (UP), Mandirigma is packed with high-resolution, large format photographs, featuring both reenacted scenes shot from 2009 to 2021 and actual vintage WWII pictures.
BUTUAN CITY—At least 79,925 indigent senior citizens in Caraga region have received over P239.7 million in social pension in the first four months of the year, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Wednesday.
One good thing I like about this pandemic is that it has dimmed the spotlight on the “self.” The obsession with “I, me, myself” is being put into the background, albeit for the moment at least. Although I wish that it would be part of the new better future after this whole thing is over.
LAOAG CITY—At least 557 indigent senior citizens happily received on Wednesday their six months’ worth of social pension from the national government.
Senior housing occupancy reached a record low in the first quarter in the US, even as vaccination rates rose and coronavirus infections ebbed.
CEBU CITY—Mayor Edgardo Labella on Friday said nearly 5,000 Covid vaccine doses have already been administered to senior citizens here.
OMAHA, Nebraska—A 114-year-old Nebraska woman who has taken the title of America’s oldest living person says what she wants most is to eat with her friend after a year of pandemic restrictions.
I am in my late 60s, going into my 70s. By usual reckoning, consider me old indeed.
More than 3 million people have already died since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic more than a year ago. In many countries, this virulent disease continues to infect more and more people. While Filipinos are afraid to contract the virus, majority of them remain hesitant to be inoculated due to safety concerns.
DAVAO CITY—Local health officials said some 93,468 senior citizens are now included in the master list of those seeking the next priority vaccine shots after the city completes giving the jab to medical frontline workers.
Dismaying, dispiriting, heartbreaking. Those are the feelings I get when I scan the news and the latest social- media buzz nowadays.
The Department of Health (DOH)—Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) recently called on all senior citizens in the region to register for their free Covid-19 vaccine to protect themselves from infection.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—The city government will start next week the inoculation of senior citizens and individuals with comorbidities or those at high risk to the coronavirus disease.
There is so much happening in our world right now, and everyone has an opinion about everything. Right now, there are those who say Covid-19 is a hoax. Others say vaccines are dangerous. An anti-parasitic drug is touted as the cure for the virus in spite of a contrary disclaimer coming from the company that makes it. It now seems to have come to this: everyone is entitled to his own facts.
MANILA—Senior citizens in Taguig on Wednesday urged their fellow residents to be part of the battle against Covid-19 by getting vaccinated.
After the successful inoculation of its frontline health workers, Muntinlupa City is preparing for the vaccination of about 45,000 elderly residents following the expected delivery of the vaccines it purchased from a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company.
A recent study led by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) revealed that suspected Covid-19 patients administered with virgin coconut oil (VCO) had observed reduced symptoms. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute under the DOST led the study, which involved 57 probable and suspect Covid-19 patients in a quarantine hospital in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. Around half of them or 29 were given VCO added to their food for 28 days, while the other half served as the control group. Science Secretary Fortunato de la Peña presented their study on the use of VCO as a supplement for the treatment of Covid-19. “VCO could be used as an adjunct supplement to probable and suspect cases of Covid-19. It could prevent Covid-19 cases from becoming severe,” de la Peña said.
MY wife sometimes complains that I am too available, giving attention to almost anybody who wants me even those she deems obnoxious, toxic and discourteous. “All they know is ask you to do favors for them,” she carped one day after I took one lengthy call after another.
BY 2030, one in every 6 people will be 65 years old or older. These super-aged populations will be in more than 35 countries across the world, and 60 percent of them will be found across Asia.
The House Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday approved the bill increasing the social pension of senior citizens from P500 to P1,000.
IT was a hot Sunday in summer long before the pandemic. As the priest was delivering an interminable homily, I started to get fidgety at some point. Then looking around, I sensed others were bored too and like me probably wanted the priest to end the agonizing sermon.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida—Bill and Esther Ilnisky spent nearly seven decades together as Christian ministers and missionaries, working in the Caribbean and Middle East before preaching for 40 years in Florida.
TACLOBAN CITY—The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) unveiled on Tuesday the first of the 34 historical markers in Guiuan, Eastern Samar to celebrate the 500th anniversary (quincentennial) of the first circumnavigation of the world.
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