The Department of Health (DOH) and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) should create guidelines for an automatic travel ban to and from countries with high coronavirus (COVID-19) infections or new variants. This way, Senator Risa Hontiveros said, the Philippine government could thwart the potential...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, April 27, said it will not, in any way, manipulate the country’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) data. DOH/MB In a statement, the Health department said it recognizes the value of having a data-driven COVID-19 response, that's why they strive to provide a...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, April 27, said the B.1.617 variant or the variant first detected in India is classified as a variant under investigation (VUI) and not a variant of concern (VOC). The Health department said this was based on the technical definitions set by the World...
The healthcare utilization rate in Metro Manila has decreased in the past weeks, the country’s treatment czar and Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega said Tuesday, April 27. Health Sec. Francisco Duque with Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega inspect a new isolation facility at the Eva Macapagal...
More than 925,000 individuals have recovered from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, April 27, reported 10,109 new recoveries bringing the total recoveries to 925,027. DOH/MB The total number of COVID-19 cases also rose to 1,013,618 with the addition...
The government is still granting hazard pay to health workers battling the coronavirus pandemic in recognition of their hard work and bravery. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque tried to allay concerns that the government has supposedly cut the benefit for the...
The public were urged not to let their guard down despite the signs of a decrease in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the recent weeks following the reimposition of strict quarantine measures. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday, April 27, that there is no travel ban for overseas Filipino workers in India. People stand in queue keeping social distance beside a COVID-19 awareness scarecrows placed by Chennai municipality at a market during a...
The business sector has proposed a ten-point recommendation to the Duterte to push for economic recovery. At the Sulong Pilipinas Pre-SONA forum of the Economic Development and Infrastructure Clusters, Ambassador Benedicto V. Yujuico, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and...
The Department of Health (DOH) said the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) have yet to detect the Indian coronavirus variant in the country. doh "We have not detected yet this variant across the 5,000 specimens sequenced by the PGC," Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a virtual press...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday, April 26, has called on nurses and doctors to work in hospitals in the country as there is a need for more healthcare workers to man medical facilities amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. A medical worker walks on the aisle of...
With many hospitals still overwhelmed, the government is looking to provide "home care packages" to COVID-19 patients. DOH/MB "This is part of our efforts to be able to redirect patients and prevent them from going straight to the hospitals, for patients, who are panicking or having this kind of...
