This file photo shows a courier deliver food orders made by residents outside a residential compound in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 23, 2022. (Xinhua/Ren Chao) BEIJING, China -- Beijing authorities said on Monday that the city is working to relieve the strain on courier...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora urged the Department of Health (DOH) to allow other priority groups in the country to receive the second booster shot against Covid-19 as the Philippines detected other variants of the virus that are said to be more transmissible and even have the ability to evade...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- The devastation that Covid-19 has inflicted globally is truly historic and highlights the world's overall lack of public health preparedness for an outbreak of this magnitude, US top infectious diseases expert Anthony S. Fauci wrote in a newly-published perspective....
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, Nov. 28, a total of 8,032 new Covid-19 cases during the past week. DOH/MB In its weekly case bulletin, DOH said that daily average cases are currently at 1,147 which is 0.3 percent higher than cases from Nov. 14 to 20. The agency also recorded five...
An infectious diseases expert believes that another surge in Covid-19 cases is unlikely this coming holiday season. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15, 2022 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. (ALI VICOY /...
Private hospitals across the Philippines are all geared up for the highly transmissible and immune evasive Omicron subvariant BQ.1 according to a health expert. Following the detection of the new Omicron BQ.1 in the Philippines, Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI)...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, has renewed his appeal for Filipinos to get vaccinated and boosted as well as the governmen continues its vigilance against the threat of COVID-19. Go made the call as health authorities detected the...
Covid-19 Positivity Rates in Metro Manila and Select Luzon Provinces as of Nov. 26, 2022 (OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The OCTA Research Group observed rising Covid-19 positivity rate in Metro Manila and five provinces in Luzon. In an update on social media on Monday, Nov. 28,...
The Philippines once again recorded more than 1,000 cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, Nov. 27. Based on the Department of Health's (DOH) data, another 1,326 new Covid-19 cases were detected. These new infections brought the number of active cases across the country to 18,482. Most of the infections in...
BAGUIO CITY – Three barangays here have recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the City Health Services Office reported. Dr. Celia Flor Brillantes, assistant city health officer, said that as of Nov. 19, Barangay Irisan which has the largest population in the Summer Capital has recorded...
Albay 2nd District Rep. and House Ways and Means chair Joey Salceda on Sunday, Nov. 27, assured workers at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) that there would be no abolition or layoffs there even after the country’s establishment of its own Center for Disease Control (CDC) inches...
Filipinos were warned against complacency following the detection of the new Omicron strain BQ.1 in the Philippines. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Although it was seen to cause mostly mild and asymptomatic infections, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David, on Saturday, Nov. 26 advised the public to...
