SOME local government units in Metro Manila released a unified statement that the region might not be ready to shift to Modified General Community Quarantine after June 15. This came after observations revealed that confirmed COVID-19 cases in the area are still on the surge. Citing Muntinlupa City, Barangay Alaban is under extremely […]
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte instructed Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to create a new team whose main focus is to speed up the handing over of benefits to health workers who suffered illness because of COVID-19 and to the families of medical frontliners who died due to the infection with the virus. In a televised […]
THE Philippines will resume the clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 treatment after World Health Organization (WHO) lifted the temporary halt of the said drug, said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in an online press briefing. The resumption of clinical trial comes after the Philippines followed WHO’s decision to temporarily halt using the anti-malarial […]
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of Health (DOH) to immediately give the benefits intended for the frontliners who were infected with COVID-19. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, in a press briefing held in Davao City on Thursday, stated that the President has given an ultimatum to the DOH until June 9 to release […]
AS the country switches to lesser lockdown restrictions, the Social Weather Stations or SWS survey disclosed that 84 percent of Filipinos believe that the stay at home measures was worth it to prevent COVID-19 transmission. The SWS poll also revealed that 15 percent believe that the stay at home measures placed too many burdens […]
SENATE President Vicente Sotto III sent a letter to the Department of Health Sec. Francisco Duque III on Wednesday to urge him to speed up the rolling out of aid to the affected healthcare workers and provide an update on his progress. The letter was sent following the Senate session on Tuesday revealing that […]
AS the government aims to hire more contact tracers, the Department of Interior and Local Government or DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said that contact tracing helped to detect 87 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country. Año said that the government aims to increase its detecting capacity by hiring more contact tracers who will […]
UPON the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Thursday said that Metro Manila is ready to shift from Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine to General Community Quarantine by June 1. Roque said that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has recommended to President Duterte to place Metro […]
TUMAAS pa sa 14, 319 ang kumpirmadong nagpositibo sa coronavirus disease 2019 sa Pilipinas. Sa pinakahuling datos ng Department of Health ngayong hapon, 10, 123 ang active cases sa nasabing bilang. Isang 171 ang naitalang kaso sa National Capital Region, 70 sa Region 7, at 43 naman mula sa ibat ibang bahagi ng […]
ON Friday, the city government of Marikina began testing its employees for COVID- 19 as they kicked off their mass testing inside the city hall. Hundreds of employees were tested as part of the government’s measure to fight the spread of the virus. After the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine o MECQ has been […]