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(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, March 6, formed five separate teams to do extensive contact tracing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after it has confirmed two more positive cases, including a Filipino who has no travel history outside the country. Aside from the contact tracing for the two Filipinos with COVID-19, the DOH teams will also trace the persons who may have had contact with three foreign nationals – a […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has recorded two more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to five. The Department of Health also noted that two of the three foreign nationals who were confirmed to have COVID-19 and who were reported to have a travel history to the Philippines may have contracted the disease somewhere else. In a press briefing on Friday, March 6, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the Philippines’ […]
https://youtu.be/k77epPZdOSE (Eagle News) – The Philippine government is now readying the process for the repatriation of some 200 Filipinos from Macau who will be considered persons under monitoring (PUMs) once they arrive in the country, according to the Department of Health. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that there are at least 148 Filipino workers in Macau who are up for repatriation, and another 48 Filipinos who are part of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration […]
(Eagle News)–Ten of the 13 Filipino repatriates from the Diamond Princess who were being monitored for respiratory disease symptoms have tested negative for the virus. Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the Department of Health was awaiting the results of the three other Filipinos. Over 400–or 445–Filipinos were repatriated from the Japan cruise ship, including Department of Foreign Affairs and Health officials. The Filipino repatriates remain quarantined in the New Clark City in Tarlac. […]
(Eagle News)–Seven of the nine Filipino repatriates who were being monitored for respiratory disease symptoms have tested negative for the novel coronavirus. DOH Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a radio interview that the Department of Health was still waiting for the laboratory results on the two remaining repatriates. The nine Filipinos showed symptoms ranging from cough to sore throat. The nine were part of the 445 Filipinos from the Japan cruise ship Diamond […]
(Eagle News) – Five Filipino repatriates from the MV Diamond Princess have so far exhibited symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) and have been brought to a referral hospital for isolation and appropriate medical management, according to the Department of Health (DOH). Of the three who had been earlier brought to the hospital, two have so far tested negative, while the other one still has to await his test results from the Research Institute […]
(Eagle News)–Two of the three Filipino repatriates from the Diamond Princess who were brought to the hospital for symptoms of the novel coronavirus have tested negative for COVID-19. Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire added in an interview over Unang Balita that only the laboratory test results of one repatriate are pending. She said all three are stable in a hospital. The three were among the 445 Filipinos repatriated from the Japan cruise ship, which […]
(Eagle News) — Over 500 people who were initially probed for symptoms of the novel coronavirus have been discharged from hospitals. Based on data from the Department of Health’s tracker, the 548 discharged was as of Thursday, Feb. 27. Over 60, or 64, remain admitted, the tracker showed. The Philippines has so far confirmed three cases of COVID-19. It has also imposed a travel ban on specific areas, including China, where the virus was first […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government has successfully brought home 445 Filipinos, mostly crewmembers of the MV Diamond Princess cruise ship, through two chartered flights of the Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. The first flight, which carried 309 passengers, as well as a two-member repatriation team from the DFA and a four-member health response team from the Department of Health (DOH) arrived at Clark Airbase at 10:10 p.m. of […]
(Eagle News) — One of the two Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates who tested positive for the novel coronavirus is “unstable,” a Health official said on Monday, Feb. 24. Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the patient, a 43-year-old male, had gone to the hospital as he had difficulty breathing. “…And when he was admitted he was already intubated, ibig sabihin naka-respirator na siya,” she said. She said the other Filipino, a 34-year-old male, […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Monday, Feb. 24, clarified there was still no Filipino infected with the novel coronavirus in South Korea. Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the clarification in an interview with reporters in the Palace. Earlier in the day, Vergeire told GMA News Unang Balita that they received information about a Filipino in South Korea being infected with COVID-19 but that no other details were available. “Mayroon pong […]
(Eagle News) — The mayor of Capas, Tarlac has expressed apprehension about the quarantine of almost 500 Filipinos from the Japan cruise at the New Clark City Athletes’ Village in his area, saying that the number would be too much to handle and could pose a safety and health risk for his constituents.qu Capas City mayor Reynaldo Catacutan said that while they had agreed on the earlier repatriation of some 30 Filipinos coming from […]
