TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan will move away from a zero-Covid policy and instead focus on tackling the most severe infections in an effort to live with the coronavirus, its health minister said Thursday. The decision leaves China -- and its financial hub Hong Kong -- as the only major economy...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said for the 15th straight day, the city’s lone public hospital, the Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH) has recorded zero Covid-19 admission. According to Rubiano, PCGH officer-in-charge Dr. Jhon Victor De Gracia, reported for the past 15 straight days, the...
The municipality of Pateros in Metro Manila is still coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-free in the last three weeks. This is according to Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research who released the latest COVID-19 tally for the National Capital Region. The Pateros municipal hall (Pateros municipal government)...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the hard work of the City Health Office (CHO) and the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) brought the number of COVID-19 cases down to 66 on Nov. 23. Olivarez said the city suffered a big blow when the cases reached 3,000 during the surge of the...
After a year in quarantine, a barangay in Iloilo province logged zero cases of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), one of the few remaining communities in the country that has been untouched by the virus. (Photo via Raymund Antonio) Barangay Bagacay in Tigbauan, Iloilo had zero COVID-19 cases...