A lawmaker in the 19th Congress has filed a measure dubbed the Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response (SPHERE) Bill amid worries of future pandemics and similar health threats. Abra Rep. Ching Bernos (middle) is sworn in by Speaker Martin Romualdez (left) “The Covid-19 pandemic caught us...
DOH COVID-19 TRACKER DASHBOARD/ JULY 29, 2022 The number of new Covid-19 cases in the Philippines hit over 4,000 on Friday, July 29. Department of Health's (DOH) Covid-19 tracker showed that 4,127 more people contracted the viral disease. At present, the total number of active Covid-19 cases...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Due to the growing incidence of diabetes among the people, a health official here on Friday, July 29, has warned the public against several complications that might arise from having the said disease. Dr. Tristan Jediah Labitad, head of the Non-Communicable Disease cluster of...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) has defended its decisions regarding the use of Covid vaccines, saying that its recommendations were always based on...
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature,...
DOH COVID-19 TRACKER DATA/ JULY 28, 2022 The country's number of active Covid-19 cases is now nearly 30,000 after more than 3,000 new cases were recorded on Thursday, July 28. Based on the Department of Health's (DOH) Covid-19 tracker, another 3,858 new infections were logged, bringing the active...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) said more than 50 health facilities were damaged due to the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that recently hit the province of Abra and other areas. The damaged facilities include eight hospitals, 28 rural health units, and 18 barangay health stations, said DOH...
17DENGUE The Department of Health (DOH) has already recorded close to 74,000 dengue cases since January. A total of 73,909 dengue cases have already been recorded as of July 9, said DOH Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary of Public Health Services Team Beverly Ho during a press briefing on Thursday,...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) said it is now in communication with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in order to obtain smallpox vaccines and medicines for its possible fight against monkeypox. “We like to assure that we are in constant communication with our counterparts,...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) is coordinating with global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX Facility if the latter could replace the expired Covid-19 vaccines procured...
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2021, commuters wearing protective face masks walk along Pratunam pier in Bangkok, after the government imposed strict restrictions for not wearing a mask in public following the recent outbreak of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Thailand. Thailand announced on...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) announced 923 new cases of Omicron subvariants in the country based on its latest genome sequencing run. There were 890 cases of the BA.5 subvariant, said DOH Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary of Public Health Services Team Beverly Ho in a press briefing on...