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The Department of Health during the Aquino administration spent P3.5 billion on dengue vaccines despite opposition from public health experts. Now, drug manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur admits that its Dengvaxia would only protect those who got the vaccine after they had a prior infection. Those who had not been infected before immunization – hundreds of thousands of grade school students – face risk of more severe type of dengue for the rest of their lives. The DOH has suspended the vaccination program.
Meanwhile, as Congress nears its holiday break, deliberations on the proposed national budget for 2018 hit a snag. This is after the House of Representatives contingent and a few senators discover in the first bicameral committee meeting that Senate slashed some P50 billion from the budget of the public works department. It may scuttle road projects under President Rodrigo Duterte’s build, build, build program, lawmakers say.
On Bonifacio Day, supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte occupies the historic Mendiola peace arch to urge him to declare the revolutionary government and rewrite the Constitution to establish a federal republic. The simultaneous rallies in other parts of the country are a flop, however. Vice President Leni Robredo reminds them that calling for revolutionary government means they don’t trust the administration of the President that they themselves elected.
Motorcycles will now get assistance from the Waze, which will trace for the two-wheel vehicles narrower roads and routes, which previously were not traced for full-size automobiles.
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After Sanofi Pasteur’s advisory on Dengvaxia, Dr Anthony Leachon says students who already got their dengue shots from DOH will live with the possibility of getting severe dengue ‘for the rest of their lives’
Karlo Nograles, chairman of the House appropriations committee, explains that road projects are typically divided into phases, funded by the national budget in the years the phases are implemented. Although he refuses to go into detail, he says the huge cut affects ongoing projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Led by actress Vivian Velez, the Mendiola crowd of a few thousands reads a declaration enumerating 7 reforms that supposedly can only be achieved if President Duterte exercises revolutionary powers.
The final report by the official Royal Commission of Inquiry into the scandal in the 1990s during Mahathir’s tenure also recommends Anwar Ibrahim – finance minister at the time and now a leading opposition figure languishing in jail – face a criminal probe. The former prime minister denounces the investigation into multi-billion-dollar foreign exchange losses as a “vindictive” attempt to target him and deflect attention from the government’s problems.
“The government will make utmost efforts to ensure that the Japanese people can celebrate the emperor’s abdication and the succession of the crown prince,” says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Akihito’s eldest son, 57-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito, is expected to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne the next day.
The addition comes as Waze believes that drive times, routes and roads vary between full-sized automobiles and motorcycles.
A study by the Boston Consulting Group shows Metro Manila motorists and commuters get stuck in traffic for an average of 66 minutes daily. Motorists spend another 24 minutes looking for a parking space.
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