A consolidated House bill (HB) that seeks to establish a Virology Science and Technology Institute of the Philippines has hurdled not one, but two House panels. Photo from Pixabay/ MANILA BULLETIN The approved substitute measure is a consolidation of 31 different bills. It received the approval of...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) launched on Wednesday, Nov. 9, the first day of the Handa Pilipinas: Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Expo 2022 to showcase the latest innovative technologies and products and research and development (R&D) project-related...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said that if the current trends continue, the number of daily Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila may drop to 100 by the end of November. Metro Manila reported 164 new Covid-19 cases on Nov. 8, based on the Department...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David on Monday, Aug. 22, said that 10 Luzon provinces continued to register “very high” or above 20 percent Covid-19 positivity rates over the past week. Positivity rate refers to the number of individuals who...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) Key Covid-19 indicators in Metro Manila continued a downward trend, as shown in the latest monitoring of the OCTA Research Group. OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David noted that the “decrease in cases and positivity rate in the NCR (National Capital Region)...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) Metro Manila may be back to “low risk” from “moderate risk” classification for Covid-19 by mid-September after seeing the peak of the Covid-19 wave driven by Omicron subvariants in early August, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said. David on...
Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC), together with the OCTA Research Group and GO Negosyo, recently facilitated a relevant and pressing discussion on the country’s progress through the COVID-19 pandemic in its latest webicon entitled, “COVID-19: From Pandemic to Endemic". The webicon was held...
The number of Covid-19 cases in Metro Manila may further decline to less than 500 by the end of August or the first week of September, said independent OCTA Research group on Thursday, Aug. 18. (Unsplash) With a growth rate of -9 percent and a positivity rate of 15.7 percent, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 infections in Cebu City and the rest of Cebu province have been declining for the past two weeks, following the peak of the wave on July 31, the OCTA Research Group said on Tuesday, Aug. 16. In an update shared on Twitter, OCTA fellow...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The OCTA Research Group on Tuesday, Aug. 16 said that Metro Manila’s Covid-19 daily positivity rate has been “trending downward” since the first week of August. “The seven-day positivity rate in the NCR (National Capital Region) was 16.1...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The OCTA Research Group has observed that the seven-day Covid-19 growth rate in Metro Manila has decreased to -1 percent as of Aug. 14, which could be the beginning of a downtrend in infections in the central region. In an update shared on Twitter on...
(OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said that the Covid-19 positivity rate in Metro Manila has decreased to 16.4 percent, which could be an indication that the current wave of infections has already peaked. In an update on Twitter on Sunday, Aug....
