DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has observed an uptick in Covid-19 cases in 13 areas of the country. At present, Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje noted that the said trend of Covid-19 cases in those areas is not yet considered as a "significant" increase. These areas include Ilocos Norte,...
PARIS, France -- Not even one in four people have completely recovered from Covid a full year after being hospitalised with the disease, a UK study indicated Sunday, warning that long Covid could become a common condition. The study involving more than 2,300 people also found that women were 33...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Ninety-three percent of the people in Cambodia, aged 3 years old and over, have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccines, Health Ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said on Saturday. The southeast Asian nation launched a national vaccination...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,054,952 on Saturday as 2,527 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry's latest data. This is the fourth consecutive day when the number of new cases has breached the 2,000-mark, after...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga signed a decree on Friday ending the Covid-19 public health emergency, effective 30 days after its publication in the Official Gazette. In its decision to lift the emergency, which has been in force since February 2020, the Health...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron XE variant at the border, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Saturday. A person who has traveled from overseas to New Zealand has been confirmed as having the XE variant of Omicron, said the ministry. This is the...
If he would have his way, senatorial candidate Herbert “Bistek” Bautista would provide loan packages worth P100,000 to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that were battered by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. ( Tim Mossholder/ Unsplash) “But let’s not give aid without...
Neither calamities nor the Covid-19 pandemic can halt the conduct of the upcoming May 2022 elections, an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared on Saturday, April 23. Comelec/MB Comelec Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia said the poll body will ensure that all registered...
"Do it for the country." This was Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion's appeal to the public to get their booster shots against Covid-19, saying this is their duty to the country. MB UPLIFT's awardee for Public Service, Presidential Adviser & GoNegosyo Founder Joey...
Literature, movies, and series about the imagined apocalypse and the post-apocalypse to keep our minds off this one Apocalyptic fiction challenges us to think of a far-fetched world, somewhere entirely different from reality. In the Covid era, however, most of the horrific, imagined narratives...
Sanha, a member of K-pop boy band ASTRO, has tested positive for Covid-19, his agency announced. Agency Fantagio announced that on April 22, Sanha used a self-test kit as a preemptive measure due to poor condition and the result turned out to be negative. Astro's Sanha (Twitter) “However, due to...
BEIJING, China -- An international team led by Chinese scientists identified in a recent study a new risk of Covid-19: it ages you beyond your years. Researchers from the Sixth Affiliated Hospital under Sun Yat-sen University in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and their collaborators from Spain...
