Tag: DOH

8,748 more COVID-19 cases push PHL total to 1,037,460

(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 1,037,460 after the Department of Health reported 8748 additional cases. According to recent DOH data, of the total cases, 73908 were active. Of these, 96.1 percent were mild cases, 1.7 percent asymptomatic, 1.0 percent critical, 1.3 percent severe, and 0.87 percent moderate cases. Recoveries are now at 946318, including the additional 4143 recoveries. The death toll reached 17234, including the 89 additional ones. On Wednesday, President Rodrigo Duterte […]

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NTF adviser Herbosa backs DOH on MECQ extension; cites high critical care capacity in NCR Plus areas

  (Eagle News) —  The Special Adviser to the National Task Force on COVID-19 Dr. Ted Herbosa said that the critical care utilization of hospitals in Metro Manila is still high which warrants as extension of the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) in the Philippine capital and its surrounding provinces. In an interview with the Eagle News Service program, Balitalakayan, aired over NET 25, Dr. Herbosa also said that hospital bed utilization in Metro Manila […]

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Percentage of active COVID-19 cases decrease to 9 percent, lowest since March 16

9,661 new COVID cases added on Saturday; total cases at almost 990k, could breach 1M by Monday   (Eagle News) – The percentage of active cases compared to total COVID-19 cases continued its decline from 10.5 percent on Friday, April 23, to just 9 percent on Saturday, April 24, with the addition of 9,661 cases. This brought the total active cases to 89,485. The 9 percent active cases is the lowest percentage of COVID-19 active […]

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PHL COVID-19 cases reach 979,740 with addition of 8,719 cases

(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 979,740 on Friday, April 23, after the Department of Health reported 8719 additional cases. According to the DOH, 28 duplicate cases were removed from the total number of cases. Of the total cases, 102799 were active. Of these, 96.4 percent were mild, 1.3 percent asymptomatic, 0.7 percent critical, 0.9 percent  severe, and 0.38 percent were moderate. Recoveries climbed to 860,412 with the addition of 13,812 recoveries. […]

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Duque gets first dose of Sinovac vaccine

  (Eagle News) – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III was vaccinated with Coronavac, a brandname of the Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, on Friday, April 23. Duque was given the SInovac jab at around 10 a.m. at the Department of Health office compound where some 70 more DOH officials are also set to be vaccinated.  He is vaccinated as part of the A2 sector (elderly group) in the vaccine priority list. Health Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo administered […]

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Persons who recovered from COVID can be immediately vaccinated, says new guidelines from DOH

DOH urges people to register for shots with LGUs Eagle News) – COVID-19 patients who had recovered can be immediately given vaccines, according to the latest guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH). The DOH issued the additional guidelines on Thursday, April 12, to clarify the previously issued COVID-19 National Deployment and Vaccination Plan. “Individuals who recently recovered from COVID-19 may be vaccinated immediately after recovery or completion of treatment for their first or second […]

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DOH reports record number 55,204 COVID recoveries, but deaths by the hundreds in last 3 days

COVID-19 critical cases still rising as of Sunday, April 11 (Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported at least 55,204 recoveries from COVID-19 bringing down the active coronavirus cases in the country from the Saturday’s record-high of 190,245 to Sunday’s (April 11) number of 146,519.  But new deaths added since Friday, April 9, are still in the hundreds per day, with the last two days registering at least 200 deaths daily. The 55,204 recovered […]

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DOH, PGC, UP-NIH: 192 South Africa, 170 UK variant cases detected in most recent COVID-19 genome sequencing

19 additional PHL variant cases, 1 Brazil variant case also found (Eagle News) — Authorities reported 170 United Kingdom variant cases, 192 South African variant cases, and one Brazil variant case in the most recent COVID-19 genome sequencing. The Department of Health, University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center , and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health said also detected during the sequencing were 19 Philippine variant cases. The DOH, PGC and UP-NIH said […]

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FDA asks DOH to suspend AstraZeneca use for those below 60 after report on “rare” blood clot links abroad

  (Eagle News) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked the Department of Health (DOH) to suspend the use of the remaining AstraZeneca doses in the country for those aged 60 and below following reports of “very rare” blood clot instances following the vaccine administration abroad. FDA Director General Eric Domingo said that he had already gotten in touch witth the DOH regarding this. He said that out of 200 million recipients of […]

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PHL reports 8,355 additional COVID-19 cases; total at 803,398

(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 803398 on Monday, April 5, after the Department of Health reported 8355 additional cases. According to DOH data, of the total cases, 143726 were active. Of these, 97.5 percent were mild, 1.1 percent asymptomatic, 0.5 percent were critical, 0.6 percent severe, and 0.34 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 646237 including the 145 additional ones. Ten additional deaths pushed the death toll to 13435. The Philippines is dealing […]

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Only over 500k of 1.7M health workers vaccinated; Pres. Duterte stresses need to implement jab priority list

DOH: 1.5M vaccine supply so far delivered not enough to cover all medical frontliners   (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated more than half a million health care workers, or more than 41 percent of the 1.7 million medical frontliners targeted as A1 priority in the country’s vaccine rollout against COVID-19.  The rollout started on March 1. President Rodrigo Duterte stressed the importance of vaccinating all health care workers first before giving shots to […]

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Pres. Duterte asks DOH to probe cases of non-health workers who jumped the line to get COVID jabs

Makes appeal to follow priority list so as not to imperil COVAX Facility vaccine deliveries   (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte expressed dismay about some persons who are not health workers who got vaccines against COVID-19, which was against the protocol of the Philippine vaccine rollout. Duterte said that this incidents could put in peril the arrival of more vaccines from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX Facility since the condition to vaccinate health […]

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