NO PHYSICAL DISTANCING -- Dozens of people gather sans minimum physical distancing in front of Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) building on Cabaguio Ave., Davao City. Health authorities have attributed the surge of COVID-19 cases in the region to complacency. (Keith Bacongco/MB/ FILE PHOTO)...
Illustration of coronavirus / File Photo One of the new Delta variant cases reported earlier was not a local case in the Bicol region, the Department of Health (DOH)-Bicol clarified on Thursday, July 22. The DOH announced 12 new cases of Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus,...
DOH/MB The Philippines has recorded 5,828 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, July 22. The country's total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is at 1,530,266, of which, 50,562 cases are still active. Of the active cases, 92.7 percent have mild...
Malacañang said that it will step up its contact tracing game to arrest the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) following reports of an increase in the number of cases in different areas in the country, particularly in the National Capital Region (NCR). Presidential spokesperson Harry...
Malacañang reiterated its appeal to the public to continue following the required health protocols and to stay at home if possible following reports of an uptick of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in different areas and the local transmission of the dreaded Delta variant. Presidential spokesperson...
COVID-19 VIRUS ILLUSTRATION/FILE PHOTO The Department of Health (DOH) reported 12 new local cases of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus in the Philippines. Of the new cases, the DOH said that six cases were found in Central Luzon, three cases in the National Capital Region (NCR), two cases in...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 6,560 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Wednesday, July 21 - raising the country’s running case tally to 1,524,449. Of the total, 3.1 percent or 47,996 cases are still active. The DOH said that 92.1 percent of these patients have mild...
The Philippines will have a hard time handling an Indonesia-like coronavirus cases (COVID-19) surge driven by the more transmissible Delta variant, a group of health workers warned on Wednesday, July 21. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with CNN Philippines, Alliance of Health Workers...
In anticipation of the opening of the third regular session of the 18 th Congress next week, the United Nations and several of its representative agencies in the Philippines has called on both the House and the Senate to prioritize the immediate passage of a law that increases the age for...
This picture shows used vials of the BioNtech Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination of seafarers at a stadium in Manila on July 15, 2021. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP) The country's health experts are still not yet recommending the use of booster shots for those fully vaccinated against the coronavirus...
Congressmen and health experts moved on Wednesday, July 21 to ask the Supreme Court to step into the Ivermectin controversy as they stressed that the medicine could help address the grave threat brought by the Delta variant to public health. Ivermectin2 However, bad weather prevented the...
