DOH chief wants COVID-19 health emergency lifted

by Rhodina VillanueVa Philstar.com

mANILA — With CoVID no longer a serious national health issue, health secretary ted herbosa is planning to recommend to President marcos the lifting of the state of public health emergency, but with the alert level system retained.

In an interview, herbosa said Proclamation No. 922 issued by former president rodrigo Duterte may now have to be lifted, with “CoVID-19 being no longer different from the other diseases the Department of health (Doh) is monitoring.”

“With the World health organization (Who), there is no longer an emergency. so I would actually ask (for) the lifting of the public health emergency,” herbosa said.

“Actually, it really seems that it is no longer a public health emergency. there is no more public health emergency... so we want it lifted,” he said. “It is now just one of the diseases that we monitor, like influenza, cough, colds, etc.” however, he said he is in favor of retaining the alert level system for CoVID-19. the alert level system will stay. that’s a system like the

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Poll: Most Filipinos satisfied with Marcos administration

by Red MendozA ManilaTimes.net

more than seven out of 10 filipinos are satisfied with the performance of the administration of ferdinand marcos Jr., a survey commissioned by oCtA research showed.

In its Tugon ng Masa first quarter survey conducted from march 24 to 28, 72 percent of filipinos said they were satisfied, while 8 percent said they were not satisfied with the performance of marcos. the 72 percent is a “nominal decrease” from the previous oCtA survey last october, where the administration got a 76 percent satisfaction rating. marcos’ satisfaction rating was highest in the Visayas at 83 percent, followed by Balanced Luzon at 77 percent and mindanao at 67 percent. the National Capital region (NCr or metro manila) reported the lowest satisfaction rating at 51 percent. It was also the region where the highest percentage of adult filipinos were dissatisfied with the current administration at 13 percent. the NCr too was the region with the highest percentage of those who said they were ambivalent about the performance of the administration at 35 percent.

Mayon Volcano ManilaTimes.net photo by Mike Alquinto

Mayon continues ‘quiet’ eruption

by Arlie O. CAlAlO ManilaTimes.net mAYoN Volcano in Albay province continues to discharge lava and spew rocks “in a gentle and quiet manner,” but experts have not ruled out an explosive eruption in the coming weeks or days.

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and seismology (Phivolcs) Director teresito

“toto” Bacolcol told The Manila Times that the parameters recorded by the mayon Volcano Network (mVN) have been changing every day. sometimes, the parameters like the sulfur dioxide (so2) gas emission, volcanic tremors and rockfall events would increase, then the next day they would decrease, so we can say that they are still low-rate parameters,” Bacolcol said monday, June 26. the recorded low-level parameters reflect what is happening on the vent, which is an effusive eruption,” the Phivolcs chief added.

Phivolcs explained that an effusive eruption is dominated by the outpouring, fountaining or ejection of fluid lava, and the magma has a low viscosity or is runny, wherein gas can escape easily.

“effusive eruption involves the gentle release of lava on the edifice of the volcano,” it said.

In the past 24 hours, Phivolcs