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Tells governors, mayors that this is “part of effort to bring us back to normal” (Eagle News) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., pushed for massive COVID-19 vaccine booster rollout so the country could return to “normal” with businesses thriving again. In his message to local government officials delivered virtually, Marcos Jr., who is still under a strict seven day isolation period after contracting COVID-19, said the massive booster rollout would ensure the country would […]
(Eagle News) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has tested positive for COVID-19 and has “slight fever,” Malacanang confirmed on Friday, July 8. In a press briefing, Palace Press Secretary Atty. Trixie Angeles said that Marcos Jr., “tested positive in an antigen test today.” “He has slight fever but he’s okay. Those who have been in close contact with him are currently informed by PMS (Presidential Management Staff) to observe their symptom as per […]
Most already tagged as recovered; DOH reminds public to always wear face masks (Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported the detection of 140 more cases of the highly infectious Omicron variant BA.5, with majority of the cases coming from Region 6 or Western Visayas region. The DOH also reported 20 additional BA.2.12.1 cases, and seven additional BA.4 cases. These two Omicron sub-variants are also highly infectious. In a briefing on Thursday, July 7, […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s government on Sunday declared that a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections had begun to hit the country, which has one of the highest mortality rates from the virus in the world. “We are currently in a fourth wave, as we have seen the increase (of cases)… in different provinces of our country, such as Junin, Arequipa, Cusco and the capital,” Health Minister Jorge Lopez told local broadcaster RPP radio. According […]
BANGKOK, Thaland (AFP) — Thailand has dropped rules requiring people to wear masks from Friday, the government says, as Covid-19 cases fall and the tourism-dependent kingdom seeks to lure back foreign visitors. Face masks had been compulsory in public since mid-2021, when the country saw a wave of cases driven by the spread of the Delta variant. But the kingdom is keen to kickstart its stuttering economy and is relaxing Covid-19 restrictions, including discarding […]
6 new BA.5 cases and 10 new BA.2.12.1 cases added to growing number of Omicron cases in PHL (Eagle News) – At least 16 more cases of the more transmissible Omicron subvariants BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 have been recently found in the country. There were six additional cases of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and two of these came from Metro Manila. At least 10 more additional cases of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 which were also […]
180 component towns and cities also under Alert Level 1, while 37 areas under Alert Level 2 (Eagle News) — Metro Manila and at least 67 other areas, including 46 provinces and 21 highly urbanized cities (HUCs) and independent component cities (ICCs) have been placed under Alert Level 1 until June 30. Aside from these, 180 component cities and municipalities were also placed under Alert Level 1, according to the latest approved recommendations […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — An estimated two million people in the UK, which represents around three percent of the population, have reported experiencing so-called long Covid, official statistics showed Wednesday. Around 1.4 million of them said they first had Covid-19, or suspected they had the virus, at least 12 weeks previously, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It also found 826,000 of them first had coronavirus at least a year earlier, […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has registered its first cases of the BA.2.12.1 Omicron subvariant in Metro Manila and Palawan. According to the Department of Health, the two local cases from Metro Manila had no international travel history and were from the same cluster. Both cases tested positive last April 22, 2022, and have completed home isolation. The cases have been fully vaccinated. In Palawan, of the 12 BA.2.12.1 cases detected, 11 were foreign nationals and one […]
by Robin Millard © Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The WHO’s emergency committee on Covid-19 on Wednesday unanimously affirmed that the virus remains a major public health danger and insisted that countries must stop dropping their guard. With many nations relaxing public health and social measures, and drastically reducing testing for the virus, the World Health Organization’s group of experts said the pandemic was far from being at an end. “Now is not […]
(Eagle News)–The Food and Drug Administration has approved the emergency use authorization covering second booster shots for the immunocompromised, frontline health workers, and the elderly. The Department of Health said it has received the EU from the FDA. It said the second booster shot will be given at least four months after the administration of the first booster. “For moderately and severely immunocompromised patients, the 2nd booster could be given earlier subject to the attending […]
Only 1.4 million vaccinated as of March 14 DOH explains vaccine hesitancy, complacency as factors for PHL not reaching initial 1.8M target for part 4 of “Bayanihan, Bakunahan” (Eagle News) – The Department of Health has extended the “Bayanihan, Bakunahan” Part 4 until Friday, March 18, but only for elderly or the A2 sector. The phase 4 of the national vaccination campaign started on March 10 and was supposed to end on March 12. But […]
