The country will receive from Bahrain an additional 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, 40,000 doses of which are Pfizer’s pediatric vaccines, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has announced. Bahraini FM Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Photos...
The National COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) is looking to roll out the second booster for specific populations nationwide "as soon as possible", the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, April 14. A senior citizen getting his booster shot in Muntinlupa (Muntinlupa PIO) In a...
Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III reminded people to continue wearing face masks as they observe Holy Week to prevent the spread of Covid-19. He said Pateros is “zero Covid-19” but other local government units still have cases. Palm Sunday at San Roque Parish in Pateros (Photo from San Roque...
Department of Health (DOH) experts in epidemiologic modeling are seeing a possible increase in Covid-19 cases due to a decline in the population’s compliance with minimum public health standards (MPHS). DOH/MB In a statement on Thursday, April 14, the DOH said based on the...
Should he win in the May 2022 elections, presidential candidate and former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. said he would establish an immunization registry system for every local government unit (LGU) in the country. Marcos said this is to ensure that all Filipinos would have an easy...
Jeonghan, member of K-pop boy band Seventeen, has tested positive for Covid-19, his agency announced. “We would like to provide you with some information on Seventeen member Jeonghan being diagnosed with Covid-19 as well as adjustments in his activities,” said Pledis Entertainment on April 13....
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved administering a second Covid-19 booster shot for select individuals, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday, April 13. Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali...
BEIJING, China -- An international team led by Chinese researchers has identified a molecular pathway that intensifies the severity of critical Covid-19 cases, lending clues to potential treatment for such cases. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Signaling showed that the...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Hundreds of thousands of children of kindergarten ages in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi returned to school on Wednesday after a months-long hiatus due to Covid-19. Unlike school pupils and university students, kindergarten children did not have online learning while the schools...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,038,016 on Wednesday, as 1,088 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, as many as 26 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death...
OTTAWA, Canada -- The National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI) of Canada strengthened its guidance on boosters on Tuesday while Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam confirmed the country is in a sixth wave of COVID-19. NACI said in a statement that all adults aged 18 years or older are...
There is a possibility that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) may experience a "mini surge" of Covid-19 cases given its current vaccination rate, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said. DOH "Yes, there’s always that possibility of a mini-surge kasi alam naman...
