Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion’s proposal to set up "Bakuna Bubbles" is enjoying renewed support, especially when it pertains to outside the National Capital Region (NCR). (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) No less than Department of Health...
(MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila has returned to the level before the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases driven by the highly infectious Delta variant, the OCTA Research group said Thursday, Nov. 4. In a virtual forum, OCTA fellow Professor Guido David said the number of cases...
CLINICAL MATTERS Delta plus is a word combination that sent many people into a panic when it was reported in media in October. To those familiar with the havoc that the Delta variant wreaked in India and globally, the only thing that could possibly be worse is the Delta plus. Delta plus, or...
A physician raised alarm on Thursday, Oct. 28, over the Department of Transportation's (DOTr) proposal to raise the passenger capacity in public utility vehicles (PUV) back to 100 percent. (KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN) DOTr said the proposal seeks to help drivers and operators amid the...
AirAsia_2020_01_22_12_45_27 AirAsia Philippines remains "cautiously optimistic" on the strong return of the demand for air travel despite the discovery of a new strain of the more contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. “Although the discovery of the more contagious variant of Delta is definitely not...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday reported 380 new cases of the Delta variant in the country. DOH/MB In a media forum, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the latest genome sequencing also detected 104 cases of the Alpha variant and 166 cases of the Beta variant. "Majority...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is closely monitoring the so-called “Delta subvariant” of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in the United Kingdom. orld Health Organization Representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Rabindra...
The country was able to withstand the devastation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and eventually defeat it by implementing adjusted safety protocols, a task force official leading the pandemic response announced Friday, Oct. 22. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. addresses...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, Oct. 21 said the biosurveillance activities of the country has been closely monitoring 46 sublineages of the Delta variant, and so far has not detected the AY.4.2 sublineage. DOH/MB The Health department issued the statement following the reports on the...
An infectious disease expert assured the public on Thursday, Oct. 21, that there is “no need to panic” amid the detection of the new subvariant of the Delta strain of the coronavirus. (MANILA BULLETIN/Mark Balmores) "Kinakailangang pag-aralan pero di kailangang mag-panic (There is a need to...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, Oct. 18 reported the detection of 633 additional Delta variant cases in the country. DOH/MB In a media forum, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said of the 748 samples in the latest whole genome sequencing run, 84.63 percent or 633 were positive...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Philippines detected 411 new Delta variant cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from samples collected in the past months. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Monday, Oct. 11, said 747 samples collected in February, April, May, August, and September...
