The People's Reform Party is a political party in the Philippines. Founded on April 12,1991,as the political party of former Agrarian Reform Secretary Miriam Defensor Santiago for her bid as president in the 1992 Presidential Elections. During the 1992 Elections,the party nominated Santiago as president and Ramon "Jun" Magsaysay,Jr. as vice president,however both Santiago and Magsaysay lost the elections to former Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and then-Senator Joseph Estrada,respectively. The Force of Reform Philippines (FORPH) serves as the official youth-wing of the People's Reform Party. While under the same Miriam Defensor Santiago wing,the Youth Reform Movement is not related to the PRP.
The Department of Health is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care,the regulation of all health services and products. It is the government's over-all technical authority on health. It has its headquarters at the San Lazaro Compound,along Rizal Avenue in Manila.
Juan Martin Flavier was a Filipino physician and politician. He served as the Secretary of Health under President Fidel V. Ramos from 1992 to 1995,and was later elected to the Senate,serving from 1995 to 2007.
Gilberto Eduardo Gerardo Cojuangco Teodoro Jr.,nicknamed Gilbert or Gibo,is a Filipino lawyer,politician and business executive who is the incumbent Secretary of National Defense under the Marcos Jr. administration since 2023. He previously served in the same post from 2007 to 2009 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He was the nominee of Arroyo's Lakas–Kampi in the 2010 presidential election,which he lost to his second cousin,Benigno Aquino III.
The 2009 swine flu pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the Philippines on May 21,2009. In the following days,several local cases were reported to be caused by contact with two infected Taiwanese women who attended a wedding ceremony in Zambales.
Delfina Rizal Herbosa de Natividad was a Filipino renowned for being one of the three women,together with Marcela Agoncillo and her daughter Lorenza,who seamed together the Philippine flag,and for being the niece of the National Hero of the Philippines,JoséRizal.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. As of November 17,2024,there have been 4,173,631 reported cases,and 66,864 reported deaths,the fifth highest in Southeast Asia,behind Vietnam,Indonesia,Malaysia,and Thailand. The first case in the Philippines was identified on January 30,2020,and involved a 38-year-old Chinese woman who was confined at San Lazaro Hospital in Metro Manila. On February 1,2020,a posthumous test result from a 44-year-old Chinese man turned out positive for the virus,making the Philippines the first country outside China to record a confirmed death from the disease.
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and cordon sanitaire measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon and its associated islands. It is part of the COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines,a larger scale of COVID-19 containment measures with varying degrees of strictness. The "enhanced community quarantine" (ECQ) is the strictest of these measures and is effectively a total lockdown.
Both the national government and local governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines with various declarations of emergency,closure of schools and public meeting places,lockdowns,and other restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus.
Maria Rosario Clarissa Singh-Vergeire is a Filipino physician and public health official currently serving as the top undersecretary of the Department of Health. She also served as the officer in charge of the department from July 14,2022,to June 5,2023,following her appointment by President Bongbong Marcos. She was also the department's spokesperson beginning in 2015 under the Benigno Aquino III and Rodrigo Duterte administrations,as well as the department's assistant secretary for public health services from 2015 to 2020.
Community pantries in the Philippines are food banks established by Filipinos during the country's COVID-19 community quarantine.
Norberto Borja Gonzales is a Filipino social democratic politician who served as secretary of national defense and national security adviser under 14th President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Gonzales was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election.
Bongbong Marcos began his presidency at noon on June 30,2022,following his inauguration as the 17th president of the Philippines,succeeding Rodrigo Duterte. His term is expected to expire six years later,on June 30,2028. He entered into office amid COVID-19 Omicron variant,and the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Bongbong Marcos assumed office as the President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30,2022,and his term is expected to end on June 30,2028. As the President,he has the authority to appoint members of his Cabinet,subject to the approval of the Commission on Appointments. Only the Vice President is exempted from a confirmation hearing to any cabinet position.
The Philippines was among the countries which reported cases during the 2022–2023 global outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. The outbreak was first reported in the Philippines when a suspected case was confirmed on July 28,2022,according to the Department of Health.
Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil is a Filipino lawyer and former journalist who serves as the Chairperson and Resident Representative of Manila Economic and Cultural Office. She previously served as the Secretary of the Presidential Communications Office until replaced by Acting Secretary Cesar Chavez.
Love the Philippines is the tourism marketing campaign of the Philippines since June 2023.
The Ospital ng Makati is a tertiary hospital in located Pembo,Taguig. Ownership of its land and building is currently disputed between the cities of Makati and Taguig following the Supreme Court ruling of the Makati–Taguig territorial dispute,which was decided in favor of Taguig.
On September 8,2023,a suspected theft incident was reported by a departing Chinese national at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila,Philippines.
