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(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that 106 new cases were added to the tally of COVID-19 cases in the country, bringing the total to 3,870. This is the second consecutive day that only over 100 new cases were added to the list as the DOH continued to hope that the enhanced community quarantine, combined with strategic mass testing and treatment and isolation of cases, would slow down the virus infections […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that 104 new cases of COVID-19 were added in the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases in the country to 3,764. While the 104 new cases were fewer than those added on Monday of 414, there were more deaths reported in the past day at 14. Because of this the total COVID-19 fatalities have now reached 177 as of 4 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2020. […]
11 new deaths, nine new recoveries recorded (Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Monday, April 6, reported 414 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 in the country, bringing the total to 3660. According to the DOH, nine new patients have recovered while 11 others have died. The number of recoveries so far was at 73, while deaths were at 163. President Rodrigo Duterte has imposed an enhanced community quarantine in Luzon to […]
82.7 percent of total yielded negative results, DOH says (Eagle News) — Almost 23,000 coronavirus disease 2019 tests have been conducted in the country so far, the Department of Health said on Monday, April 6. According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the majority of the 22958 COVID-19 tests, or 82.7% however, yielded negative results. Over 3000, or 3414, she said, turned out positive. She said this was 16.9% of the total number of tests […]
(Eagle News) — The total coronavirus cases in the country climbed to 3,246 with the addition of 152 new confirmed cases, according to the Department of Health on Sunday, April 5, 2020. Aside from the added cases, the DOH also reported eight new COVID-19 related deaths bringing the total to 152. “DOH also reports 7 additional recoveries which brings the total number of recoveries to 64,” the department said in a statement posted on […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that the mass testing has already started in the country for COVID-19 which is prioritizing vulnerable populations with symptoms. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that so far around 19,000 individuals have already been tested for coronavirus and that more than 15,000 have tested negative for the disease. Positive test results have reached 3,739 so far. This includes repeat tests, Vergeire said, which is why […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Health on Saturday, April 4, urged local government units to pass ordinances against the discrimination of medical workers and other frontliners. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire cited in particular Manila City’s Ordinance No. 8624 or the Anti-COVID-19 Discrimination Ordinance of 2020, which also bans the discrimination against COVID-19 patients, patients under probe and patients under monitoring. Under the ordinance, violators will be fined P5,000 fine or be meted out a maximum […]
Eight fatalities and five patient recoveries also reported (Eagle News) – Only 76 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past day bringing the total cases in the country so far to 3,094, with five additional recoveries as of Saturday, April 4, according to the Department of Health. The additional cases reported in the past 24 hours were way below the previous 385 cases added on Friday, April 3 that brought the total to […]
(Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 cases in the country has climbed to 3,018 with the addition of 385 new cases, the Department of Health said on Friday, April 3, 2020. The coronavirus-related fatalities also rose to 136 as 29 new deaths were reported. Meanwhile, there was only one reported patient recovery in the past day, bringing the total recoveries to 52. The rise in COVID-19 patients was only expected according to the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said it has started to deliver 15,000 sets of Personel Protection Equipment (PPE) that arrived on Wednesday, April 1, to six of its referral hospitals. This is the first batch of 1 million PPE sets that the government has bought for P1.8 billion. Initially, the following COVID-19 referral hospitals were given their PPEs. These are the East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC), San Lazaro Hospital, Lung Center of […]
(Eagle News) – The country’s death toll due to COVID-19 rose to more than a hundred as total cases spiked to 2,633. The Department of Health (DOH), in its latest situationer on Thursday, April 2, said that 11 more deaths due to the coronavirus disease had been added to the previous toll of 96, bringing total fatalities to 107. There were also 322 new confirmed virus that were added to the earlier total of […]
(Eagle News) – Total confirmed coronavirus cases in the country again rose dramatically, climbing to 2,311 after the addition of 227 new cases, the Department of Health said. The DOH also reported eight additional COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday, April 1, bringing the total fatalities to 96. One patient, a 59-year old Filipino male from Taguig City, also recovered. Patient no. 179 had no travel history. He was discharged after two negative test results […]
