DOH The six local close contacts of the country’s first case of the BA.2.12 Omicron subvariant have tested negative for Covid-19, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, May 6. "Six local contacts tested negative, while the remaining were not tested according to current protocols since...
(Photo from Unsplash) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the Philippines’ first BA.2.12 Omicron subvariant case had 44 close contacts. The 52-year-old Finnish woman had nine close contacts in Quezon City, five in Benguet, and 30 while she was onboard a plane going to Manila, said DOH...
Mass testing of individuals with the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) symptoms is a must with the highly contagious omicron variant spreading rapidly as evidenced by the soaring number of active positive cases of the virus in the country. League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) and...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Saturday, Jan. 15 that it would limit onsite working capacity to 30 percent in offices within areas placed under Alert Level 3 amid the rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections among its personnel. DFA (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DFA...
PIXABAY / MANILA BULLETIN The Department of Health (DOH) said it already identified eight passengers— who were considered as close contacts of the country’s first two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. The 48-year-old returning overseas Filipino who arrived from Japan only had one close...
By Faith Argosino A close encounter with someone who tests positive for COVID-19 can be inevitable, especially for people who need to work or run errands outside their homes. That’s why the Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Disease (IATF) requires people to use face mask,...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III defended his controversial policy to put yellow ribbons on houses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-positive individuals and their close contacts. Houses of COVID-19 patients and their close contacts are put under granular lockdown for 14 days in Pateros....
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III backed down on his plan to tag houses with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases with yellow ribbon after it was criticized as discriminatory. In a Facebook post Saturday, the Office of the Mayor issued a statement to say that the tagging will now be...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III has issued the rules covering houses or areas that will be placed under granular lockdown. He earlier said houses with confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases will be tagged with a yellow ribbon for easy identification. Contact tracers in Pateros...
Fully vaccinated individuals who are close contacts of probable or confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) patients may not be required to undergo testing nor quarantine if they would be traced seven days after their last exposure. A resident of Parañaque City gets vaccinated against COVID-19 on May...
