Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned. Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion (Photo from Go...
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, Nov. 29 that it is in a state now where it is expecting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant of concern Omicron to enter the country anytime. In a media briefing, Dr. Althea de Guzman, medical specialist at the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said that...
MB/ FILE PHOTO The Department of Health (DOH) reported 633 new coronavirus variant cases in the country. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Sept. 29, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that 633 new variant cases were detected from the 748 sequenced samples during the latest genome...
(UNSPLASH) Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Executive Director Dr. Cynthia Saloma on Friday, Sept. 3, advised the public not to be alarmed over the emergence of a number of coronavirus variants. "From the scientific perspective and epidemiology, importante itong mga variants na ito kasi nata-track...
The municipal government of Baras, Rizal are locating for the persons who were close contacts of the municipality's first Delta and Beta variant cases. (Photo from the Municipality of Baras, Rizal's Facebook page) In its official Facebook page, the Municipal Epidemiological and Surveillance Unit...
(ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged the public anew to get vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the threat of the highly transmissible variants. FDA Director General Eric Domingo made the call during President Duterte’s...
The country’s Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) has maintained that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that are available in the Philippines provide protection against the coronavirus variants, including the Lambda variant, which was detected in the country. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Yung mga...
Representative photo of coronavirus (Unsplash) There were 177 new cases of Delta coronavirus variant in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, August 12. Of the new Delta variant cases, 144 are local cases, three are returning overseas Filipinos (ROF), and 30 cases are...
To address the new threats posed by the emerging variants of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a new crisis action plan was launched by the national government's task forces that are overseeing the country's pandemic response. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of...
We still don’t have all the data and enough research Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana It sounds straightforward: If there are more breakthrough infections against our current vaccines, why not give a booster? Or what about giving another vaccine course? Or mixing the vaccines? Many people talk about...
Illustration of coronavirus / File Photo The Theta (P.3) variant of the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is no longer part of the list of “variants of interest” of the World Health Organization (WHO), an official of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) said. PGC Director Dr. Eva...
Filipinos are “a little bit safe” against new coronavirus variants such as the more easily transmissible Delta variant because of the efficacy of the available vaccines in the country, President Duterte said. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a public address on July 12, 2021. (RTVM...