Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (Malacañang photo) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said he will not attend the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 funds which is scheduled on Thursday, Nov. 4. Duque said that Malacanang...
Vials of COVID-19 vaccines. (Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said it will investigate the fire incident in a vaccine storage in Zamboanga del Sur that damaged almost 150,000 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine doses. “It’s being investigated and we...
In this file photo Medical workers load syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to be administered by nurses at a vaccination site at Kedren Community Health Center, in South Central Los Angeles, California on February 16, 2021. (AFP/MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is...
coronavirus (FILE PHOTO) The Philippines has recorded more than 500 new Delta coronavirus variant cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, Nov. 2. The DOH said they were able to detect 520 new Delta variant cases out of the 748 positive samples that recently underwent genome...
(File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines recorded 2,303 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, Nov. 2 the lowest single-day new infections recorded in nearly eight months. The last time the Philippines recorded more than 2,000 cases was on March 10 wherein 2,886 COVID-19...
As the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) continues to urge the public to donate blood, the humanitarian organization said in a statement on Monday, November 1 that it does not condone giving payments for the act. A Philippine Red Cross volunteer collects blood from a donor during a recent mobile blood...
(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said it observed that the decline in newly confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases nationwide has slowed down. “May nakikita tayong pagbagal sa ating pagbaba. It is still going down but the decline is slower than...
DOH The Department of Health said there were 3,410 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) across the country. These infections pushed the nationwide cumulative total to 2,787,276, of which, 45,233 remained as active cases or those who are still being treated. Of the active cases, 73.6 percent...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said it will closely monitor the developments of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination among children below 12 years old, as other countries have already approved the inoculation of children as young as five years old against the said...
DOH The Philippines confirmed on Saturday 423 new deaths related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-- the biggest single-day rise in deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Based on the Department of Health's (DOH) latest case update, the country's death toll has already increased to 43,044. The...
Medicines (File Photo) An administrative order will soon be released by the Department of Health (DOH) in order to allow hospitals to procure investigational drugs for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that it will only cover investigational drugs for...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, Oct. 29, said that 4,043 new cases of COVID-19 were detected across the country. Based on it's latest case bulletin, the new cases pushed the nationwide running tally to 2,779,943, of which, 1.8 percent or 50,630 are active cases or those who are still...
