DAVAO CITY - A 63-year old male patient from Mati City in Davao Oriental province who died due to coronavirus disease on May 17 tested positive for the South African coronavirus variant. Citing reports from the Provincial Epidemiologic Surveillance Unit (PESU), the provincial government of Davao...
Barangay Baclaran in Parañaque City has closed some of its borders as it recorded its first case of the South African variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), barangay captain Jun Zaide said on Tuesday (March 8). (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a radio interview on DZRH, Zaide said the bank...
One of the four cases of the South African variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has tested negative, Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said on Thursday. (MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual press briefing, Rubiano said that all four cases including those that they have infected according to...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano assured the public that the city government has mobilized all its health workers and law enforcers to stop the spread of the South African variant of COVID-19 following reports that at least three city residents have contracted the new strain. Pasay City Mayor...
The OCTA Research Team sees the new COVID variants as the reason for the spike in cases in Metro Manila and several parts of the country. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said his group saw a rapid increase in Metro Manila’s reproduction rate (R0) which is...
The Pasay City government has started conducting a thorough contact tracing of 42 to 45 individuals who were exposed to the new South African variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Pasay Travel Pass Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) (Pasay Travel Pass Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) Mayor...
