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(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) has detected the first case of the Lambda variant in the country. The Philippines’ first confirmed Lambda variant case is a 35-year old female, but the DOH is still verifying if she is a returning overseas Filipino (ROF) or a local. The department is also tracing her close contacts. She is reportedly asymptomatic and tagged as recovered after a 10-day isolation period. The Lambda variant is said […]
(Eagle News) – New COVID cases continued to rise daily as the Department of Health reported 14,249 new virus cases on Saturday, Aug. 14, bringing the total of active cases to 98,847. This is the highest number of new cases in a single day so far since the transmission of the Delta variant was confirmed by the DOH. Total confirmed COVID cases in the Philippines have reached 1,727,231, including recoveries. New COVID-19 fatalities reported […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines recorded 13,177 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, Aug. 13, the second highest number of virus cases in the country in a single day. Because of this, the active COVID-19 cases in the country reached 96,395, while the total confirmed virus cases reached 1,713,302. New recoveries for Friday were 4,322 while those who died were 299. This death toll is is one of the highest recorded in a single […]
(Eagle News) — Eleven areas in Metro Manila are under the highest alert level 4 because of increasing COVID-19 cases and hospital bed utilization. Health Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire said these are: Las Piñas Malabon Makati Marikina Muntinlupa Navotas San Juan Pateros Quezon City Taguig Valenzuela According to Vergeire, Metro Manila is still at a high-risk case classification with its positive two-week growth rate and a high-risk average daily attack rate. Apart from these 11 […]
(Eagle News) — Balitalakayan interviews Dr. Ted Herbosa, special adviser of the National Task Force against COVID-19, explains the projections of COVID-19 cases under an Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. Dr. Herbosa explains that the effects of the community quarantine restrictions would still be felt in the following weeks. He said that the three weeks of restrictions – including the General Community Quarantine with heightened and additional restrictions and the two weeks […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 1,667,714 after the Department of Health reported 8,900 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 78480 were active. Of these, 94 percent were mild, 2.1 percent asymptomatic, 1 percent critical, 1.7 percent severe, and 1.18 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1560106 including the additional 7937 ones. The death toll is now at 29128 including the additional six deaths. The DOH has […]
(Eagle News) — There is an increase in COVID-19 cases in all age groups, not just among children, the Department of Health said on Monday, Aug. 9. According to the DOH, in particular, there has been a 59 percent uptick in cases during the period of July 13 to 25 compared to the figure registered from July 26 to August 8. Among the age groups, the highest increase was observed among the 30-39 […]
(Eagle News) – At least 11,021 more COVID-19 cases were reported by the Department of Health on Saturday, Aug. 7, higher than Friday’s count of 10,623 new cases. This makes it a new record for highest single-day number of new virus infections since the April 2021 surge. This is the second straight day that the new virus cases were more than 10,000 since the COVID surge in April. Active COVID cases also rose to […]
More Alpha, Beta, P.3 variant cases also detected (Eagle News) — Over 100 more Delta variant cases have been detected in the Philippines, pushing the total cases detected of that COVID-19 variant to 450. According to the Department of Health (DOH), apart from the 119 Delta variant cases detected in the latest batch of samples sequenced by the Philippine Genome Center, also detected were 125 Alpha variant cases, 94 Beta variant cases and […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 10,623 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, Aug. 6, the highest number of daily cases so far since the last major surge in cases last April. Because of this, the number of active COVID-19 cases jumped to 74,297 while total confirmed cases reached 1,638,345. The DOH also reported an increase in deaths. On Friday, 247 new COVID-19 fatalities were recorded, higher than the previous day’s 196 deaths. […]
Of the 95 new local Delta cases found, 83 have addresses in Metro Manila (Eagle News) – The number of confirmed Delta variant cases in the country rose to 331 after the Department of Health (DOH) added 116 new Delta variant cases detected by the UP Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC). Of the new cases added, “95 are local cases, one is a Returning Overseas Filipino (ROF), and 20 cases are currently being verified if […]
Roque says PHL gov’t to take advantage of ECQ in NCR to vaccinate more people (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the allocation of four million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to be given to Metro Manila this two-week Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) period which starts on Friday, Aug. 6. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Philippine government would take advantage of the ECQ to vaccinate more people in the National Capital […]
