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...
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...
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...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) Vaccine experts from the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) are set to check if the efficacy of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines were affected after the Muntinlupa City local government encountered a problem with their cold storage facility...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) tallied 4,516 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, raising the nationwide case count to 1,517,903. Of the total, 3.1 percent or 46,806 are active cases. The DOH said 91.7 percent of them are experiencing mild symptoms, 2.1 percent are...
The Department of Health (DOH) said it is still monitoring eight “active” Delta variant cases, out of the 35 cases that were detected in the Philippines, after they turned positive when they were re-tested for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “I like to clarify na walo na po ang nakitaan na...
Amid the limited capacity of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) to hold genome sequencing, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Monday, July 19, that it is best to assume that there is already local transmission of the Delta variant. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) During the...
