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Identify criteria for those who can undergo home isolation (Eagle News) – Malacanang and health authorities encouraged the public experiencing mild symptoms and those who have no symptoms at all to just self-quarantine or isolate at their homes if they do not have senior citizens or those with comorbidities in their households. ”Ito po ang mensahe namin: Tumulong tayong protektahan ang ating healthcare system. Sa mga walang sintomas o may mild or moderate na […]
Five days of quarantine for fully vaccinated health care workers due to increasing number of hospital cases (Eagle News) — The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) has approved shorter quarantine period — down to five days — for fully vaccinated health care workers, and home isolation for COVID-19 infected individuals who are either mild or asymptomatic, according to Malacanang. This is in view of increasing health care utilization rate in the country as more and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — People who are infected with the coronavirus carry similar levels of the pathogen in their nose, throat and lungs whether they have symptoms or not, a new study from South Korea showed Thursday. The paper, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, is an important biological line of evidence in support of the idea that asymptomatic carriers can spread COVID-19. Until now, experts have relied on inferring asymptomatic spread when people contract […]
Palace says 10 million PCR testing kits to be utilized (Eagle News) – The Philippine government has approved plans to expand targeted mass testing for COVID-19 to include even asymptomatic individuals, health care workers and other frontliners such as members of the mass media with no symptoms. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this in Laging Handa press briefing on Friday where he announced the latest developments from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious […]
Asymptomatic cases rising, breach 1000 (Eagle News) – COVID-19 cases continued to rise by about a thousand each day for the third straight day as total cases rose to 38,511. Based on data from the Department of Health, 999 cases were added today, July 1, Wednesday, 595 of which were fresh cases while 404 were late cases. Most of the cases added were still from Metro Manila. On Tuesday, June 30, the added cases were […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that COVID-19 cases in the country have reached 34,803 with the addition of 738 cases which is fewer than Friday’s 1,006 additional cases. The data as of 4 p.m., Saturday, June 27, showed that there were 506 fresh cases added today, which were also less than Friday’s 788 fresh cases. “Late cases” added today were 178 which were also fewer than Friday’s 218 late cases. There […]
(Eagle News) — The number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached 28,459 as more fresh cases were reported on Friday, June 19, at 460, most of them in Metro Manila, according to the Department of Health. The number of recoveries added were 288 which brings total COVID-19 recoveries at 7,378. But fresh cases or cases confirmed in the last three days from Metro Manila were noticeably high at 277. This was more than […]
