ILOILO CITY —The strict lockdown at the Iloilo City Fish Port has been extended after 26 other persons were infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “The lockdown will be extended for another three days,” said Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas in a statement Wednesday, August 5. The Iloilo...
CEBU CITY – People not wearing masks in public areas in Lapu-Lapu City can now be apprehended through citizen’s arrest. The exercise of citizen’s arrest was allowed after the Lapu-Lapu City Council approved an amendatory ordinance meant to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease...
BUTUAN CITY – Health authorities on Tuesday night reported that Northeastern Mindanao or Caraga region has now registered 336 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases with the 12 new positives for the virus. “As of August 4, DOH Caraga announces receipt of 155 RT-PCR results from Southern...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The city government has appealed to the Department of Health (DOH) to allocate additional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid test kits to cope with its increasing requirement for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing. The city government has appealed to the...
France could "change course at any moment" to a runaway spread of coronavirus, the government's COVID-19 scientific council warned Tuesday as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since April. A biologist from the Institut Pasteur de Lille takes a swab sample from a man...
The aphorism "perfect is the enemy of good enough" has been played out to tragic effect in the US's inadequate testing for the coronavirus, according to researchers calling for quick tests that cost only about a dollar each, and which may not be as accurate but can be carried out several times a...
The coronavirus pandemic is worsening the humanitarian situation in the world's deadliest conflicts and threatens to unleash economic devastation that will intensify violence, United Nations diplomats and experts warn. In this file photo taken on April 15, 2017, Yemeni fighters loyal to the...
DUMAGUETE CITY – The province of Negros Oriental has recorded nine new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) with one death. Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion, who also chairs the health committee of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the...
DAVAO CITY - A three-year old girl from Davao City is among the two coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fatalities reported by the Department of Health Davao Center for Health and Development (DOH-DCHD) on Sunday, August 2. Based on the profiles of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Davao region on August 2,...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The city government has quarantined 165 more residents, who were traced as indirect contacts of a locally-stranded individual (LSI) who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) several days after being released from isolation, officials said on Monday. Dr....
BALANGA CITY  – The Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported Sunday night that Bataan registered 10 new recoveries from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), bringing the total number of those who have beaten the dreaded disease to 261. The PHO also reported that seven new confirmed...
The United States has entered a "new phase" of the pandemic, White House coronavirus advisor Deborah Birx warned Sunday, with rural areas just as threatened as major cities. A health worker takes a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site at St. John's Well Child and Family Center, amid the...
