Metro Manila's intensive care unit (ICU) utilization rate has decreased to 71 percent following the reimposition of a stricter quarantine measure, according to Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III. (Photo by PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP / FILE PHOTO) In an interview over CNN...
More hospitals have been granted with compassionate special permit (CSP) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin in the treatment of their patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo from Pixabay) FDA Director General Eric Domingo told the...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday expressed elation over the news that former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada was released from the hospital after his bout with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Screenshot of former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada's video message (Twitter)...
Who says business giants and civil society groups can't see eye to eye when it comes to environmental concerns and sustainability goals? ON THE SAME PAGE--Environmental advocates from civil society and business groups called for stronger partnerships with the private sector and government to...
Vice President Leni Robredo had to spend the last two weeks in quarantine after being exposed to a COVID-19 positive close-in security, but she used her time well. If she was not attending to her office’s various projects, Robredo can be found reading books about women leaders such as former...
The nature of growth is geometric CLINICAL MATTERS Dr. Edsel Maurice T. Salvana It starts with one. The COVID-19 pandemic that has infected over 140 million and killed more than three million people started with one person who was infected by a still unknown animal. Coronaviruses usually originate...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reiterated its support to pandemic response efforts of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) as the country’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases breached the 1-million mark on Monday, April 26. (JANSEN ROMERO/FILE PHOTO/MANILA...
To help augment the pandemic response for its personnel who contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) formally turned over P2.5 million grant to the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday, April 26. PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Andrea...
Miss Eco International 2021 first runner-up Kelley Day has finally come back home to the Philippines more than three weeks after the beauty pageant concluded. SHE'S HOME--Miss Eco International 2021 first runner-up Kelley Day arrives at NAIA Terminal 3 aboard an Etihad Airways flight on April 26,...
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...
Vice President Leni Robredo repeated her call on Monday, April 26, for volunteer doctors, particularly psychiatrists and psychologists, to address the thousands of requests her Bayanihan E-Konsulta initiative has been receiving. A few days after she called for volunteers earlier this month, the...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) welcomed Monday, April 26, the decision of US-based drugmaker Moderna to apply for an emergency use authorization (EUA) of its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in the Philippines. DOST DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña and...
