READ: ‘Govt should speed up vaccine rollout’SEN. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go called on the government to expedite the vaccine rollout if the country were to achieve herd immunity this year. The Health department said the recorded VoC cases included 14 UK variants and two South African variants, adding nine were local transmissions and seven were from returning overseas Filipino workers. READ: Centino named new Army chiefPresident Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Maj. Gen. Andres Centino as chief of the Philippine Army, Malacañang confirmed on Sunday. Debt payments in March totaled P268.41 billion, up 444 percent from P49.28 billion recorded a year earlier. Interest payments, which accounted for 17.75 percent of overall servicing, jumped by 10.55 percent to P47.66 billion from P43.11 billion in March 2020.

Source: Manila Times May 16, 2021 20:03 UTC