Vice President Sara Duterte said on Thursday, May 4, that the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was an eye-opener for the country’s public health system. Vice President Sara Duterte speaks at the opening ceremony of the 49th Midyear Convention of the Philippine College of Surgeons held at SMX...
The Department of Health (DOH) said the public must learn to assess their own Covid-19 risk and make choices on how to better protect themselves against this viral disease. The DOH said that the public needs to increase their risk tolerance against Covid-19. “We need to increase our tolerance sa...
Department of Health (DOH) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (Malacañang photo) Department of Health (DOH) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire allayed concerns from House of Representatives members on Thursday, May 4 regarding the increase in local...
The Department of Health (DOH) asked hospitals to prepare more beds for the possible increase in the number of Covid-19 patients as the country is experiencing a rise in new infections again. Hospitals were already advised by the Department of Health (DOH) to expand their bed capacity, said DOH...
(Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on government to get rid of its tedious eTravel requirement for incoming international travellers despite the rise in local Covid-19 infections late last month. Villafuerte's main reason for asking this is to entice more...
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday, May 3, that it is actively participating in the development of a proposal to standardize salaries for healthcare workers in the public and private sectors. In a statement, DOH said that the same also goes for the national and local governments. "DOH...
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, May 2, that the country may receive a donation of 390,000 doses of Covid-19 bivalent vaccines by the end of the month. In a media briefing, DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that it has begun with the process and has already secured an...
Despite the slight increase in Covid-19 cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, May 2, that it's not the same as numbers recorded during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. In a media briefing, DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire explained that the increase in...
There is no need to bring back the face mask mandate. This was the recommendation of the Department of Health (DOH) to the Office of the President based on the agreement from their discussions with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID). In a...
The Department of Health (DOH)-Center for Health Education and Promotion in Region 4-A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon or the Calabarzon area) recorded 36 new Covid-19 cases as of Friday, April 28. There are 324 active Covid cases in the region as of April 28, with Cavite having 124...
The Philippines registered 304 additional cases of Covid-19, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, April 29. The number of active cases nationwide stood at 5,070, the DOH said. Among the regions with the largest number of new infections in the last 14 days were the National Capital...
More than 700 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, raising the number of active infections nationwide to nearly 5,000, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Thursday, April 27. Based on the DOH Covid-19 tracker, a total of 781 fresh cases were confirmed. The new infections brought the number of...
