BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil announced Sunday it will "in the coming days" lift public health emergency measures in place for over two years, citing a drop in the number of deaths and infections. More than 660,000 people died of the virus in Brazil, one of the hardest-hit countries second only to the...
NEW DELHI, India -- India has sharply criticised a forthcoming World Health Organization study which reportedly claims coronavirus killed four million people nationally, the latest analysis suggesting a significant undercount of the pandemic's death toll. The New York Times reported last week that...
SHANGHAI, China – China said Monday that just three people have died from Covid-19 in Shanghai since a gruelling lockdown began last month, despite recording hundreds of thousands of cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant in the eastern megacity. Authorities said the first deaths from...
The Department of Health (DOH) has logged 1,674 new Covid-19 cases from April 11 to 17, having an average daily rate of 239 which is 12 percent lower compared to the recorded cases from April 4 to 10. DOH/MB Of the said cases, DOH said only one individual was classified as a severe and critical...
Senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel 'Chel' Diokno on Monday, April 18, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to let school administrators decide whether to require teachers to return to onsite work despite the bad internet connection in most school premises. Human rights...
The Philippines and Japan have exchanged diplomatic notes today on the Japanese Government’s loan support for the Philippines’ emergency response to Covid-19 and related social protection, relief, and economic recovery stimulus measures, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Left to...
Malacañang on Monday said that the administration of the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on the immunocompromised and the elderly "has nothing to do" with the possible uptick of new Covid-19 cases next month. In a statement, presidential spokesman Martin Andanar said the second booster shot,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, April 18, said the projection of at least 300,000 active cases of Covid-19 by mid-May is possible should the public continue to neglect minimum health and safety protocols. Passers-by walk in front of a tarpaulin with images of frontliners wearing face...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez acknowledged the hard work of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) in bringing down the confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the city to nine. During the regular virtual flag raising ceremony on Monday, April 18, Dr. Darius Sebastian, CESU head, reported...
A group of education workers on Monday, April 18, once again called for the suspension of the Department of Education (DepEd) directive requiring the mandatory physical reporting of teachers in schools under Alert Level 1. Faculty members of Commonwealth High School in Ecol St., Quezon City report...
It is more important to focus on the number of vaccinated people in the country than on the number of Covid-19 cases, World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) representative to the Philippines Dr. Rajendra Yadav said. WHO representative to the Philippines Dr. Rejendra Yadav (Screenshot taken from...
Senator Nancy Binay on Monday called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to get rid of the unnecessary requirements they have set for students participating in face-to-face classes. Binay made the call after CHED and the IATF required students...
