An infectious diseases expert believes that another surge in Covid-19 cases is unlikely this coming holiday season. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan. 15, 2022 due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. (ALI VICOY /...
Private hospitals across the Philippines are all geared up for the highly transmissible and immune evasive Omicron subvariant BQ.1 according to a health expert. Following the detection of the new Omicron BQ.1 in the Philippines, Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI)...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, has renewed his appeal for Filipinos to get vaccinated and boosted as well as the governmen continues its vigilance against the threat of COVID-19. Go made the call as health authorities detected the...
Covid-19 Positivity Rates in Metro Manila and Select Luzon Provinces as of Nov. 26, 2022 (OCTA RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The OCTA Research Group observed rising Covid-19 positivity rate in Metro Manila and five provinces in Luzon. In an update on social media on Monday, Nov. 28,...
The Philippines once again recorded more than 1,000 cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, Nov. 27. Based on the Department of Health's (DOH) data, another 1,326 new Covid-19 cases were detected. These new infections brought the number of active cases across the country to 18,482. Most of the infections in...
BAGUIO CITY – Three barangays here have recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the City Health Services Office reported. Dr. Celia Flor Brillantes, assistant city health officer, said that as of Nov. 19, Barangay Irisan which has the largest population in the Summer Capital has recorded...
Albay 2nd District Rep. and House Ways and Means chair Joey Salceda on Sunday, Nov. 27, assured workers at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) that there would be no abolition or layoffs there even after the country’s establishment of its own Center for Disease Control (CDC) inches...
Filipinos were warned against complacency following the detection of the new Omicron strain BQ.1 in the Philippines. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Although it was seen to cause mostly mild and asymptomatic infections, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David, on Saturday, Nov. 26 advised the public to...
Photo from Pixabay/ MANILA BULLETIN A total of 1,874 more people were found to have contracted the Covid-19 virus, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, Nov. 26. These cases brought the number of active infections nationwide to 18,348, as shown in the DOH's Covid-19 tracker. The...
VANCOUVER UBC library honors generosity of Filipino couple Marissa and Antonio Peña CHAMPIONS OF LEARNING From left: Tony and Marissa Peña, Senator Yonah Martin, and Philippine Consul General Maria Andrelita Austria during the official opening of the remodeled Peña Room at the University of...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
The seven-day average of daily Covid-19 deaths in the Philippines has decreased from 38 to 12, an OCTA Research fellow said on Friday, Nov. 25. “The seven-day average as of Nov. 21 is 12, down from 38 on Oct. 21, 2022,” said OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David in a tweet. Hospital nurse (File...
