Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said Thursday the city still has a "few" COVID-19 related deaths despite the surge in new virus infections in Metro Manila because the government's vaccination program "is working." Belmonte added that the rise in the city's new COVID-19 cases "is not as steep" as the...
More local government units (LGUs) are now using the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines’ (DOST-NRCP) “gender-sensitive” online dashboard for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Philippine COVID-19 Case Information Dashboard (Screenshot from...
With the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, the Emergency Field Hospital (EFH) of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) at the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) and Lung Centre of the Philippines (LCP) is nearing its full capacity. (Photo from Philippine Red Cross)...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said on Monday, August 9, that majority of COVID-19 cases in the city are mild or asymptomatic and are still manageable. (San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora) "Naramdaman na natin ang pagtaas at ito naman ay inaasahan sapagkat ang Delta variant ay nandito na and we...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Central Office in Batasan Hills, Quezon City has decided to close down starting Monday, August 2, after it recorded new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “The CSC Central Office (CO) will be closed from August 2 to 5, 2021 due...
The Department of Health (DOH) said 5,479 more people were found positive with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Sunday, July 25. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Active cases nationwide stood at 54,262, representing 3.5 percent of the country's running tally of 1,548,755, the DOH said in its...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Saturday, July 3, that 99 overseas Filipinos have contracted coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bringing the total number of positive cases to 20,881. (Department of Foreign Affairs/Facebook) The DFA also reported 88 new recoveries or those who have been...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia Sunday recorded 21,342 newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily spike and bringing the total tally to 2,115,304, the Health Ministry said. The COVID-19 related death toll rose by 409 to 57,138, the ministry reported. A total...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reported 6,833 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, June 18. Active cases in the country stood at 61,776. This is 4.6 percent of the country’s running tally of confirmed cases currently at 1,346,276. Of the active infections, 92.2 percent...
Residents go about their business in Iloilo City despite the continuous spread of COVID-19. (Tara Yap/Manila Bulletin) The Philippines logged 5,389 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, June 15. With the new infections, the total number of people who contracted the viral disease...
The World Health Organization (WHO) solidarity vaccine trials could possibly include barangays in Visayas and Mindanao with high cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an official of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said on Friday night, June 11. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP /...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reports additional 6,686 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, while close to 200 people were confirmed to have died due to the viral illness on Friday, June 11. The new infections raised the country’s total to 1,300,349. Of the total figure, 4.7 percent...
