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Davao City topping other areas with high number of new Covid-19 cases on Jan. 24 alarms President Duterte (Eagle News) – The Philippines is now classified under high-risk classification from critical risk classification due to a decrease in the percentage of the two-week growth rate of Covid-19 cases, and daily reported cases on the national average. Health secretary Francisco Duque III noted the decrease in the country’s two-week Covid-19 growth rate to 178 percent, while […]
58.7 percent mula sa mga ito ang fully vaccinated na, 71.21 percent ang partially vaccinated Ni Madelyn Villar Moratillo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Karamihan sa mga kabataang nasa edad 12 hanggang 17 sa bansa ay fully vaccinated na kontra Covid-19, ayon sa isang miyembro ng Philippine Vaccine Expert Panel. Sinabi ni Dr. Mary Ann Bunyi, na pangulo rin ng Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines, na 58.7 percent o katumbas ng […]
New recoveries at 33,144 bringing down total active cases to 247,451 (Eagle News) – The number of new Covid-19 cases continued to drop as the Department of Health posted 17,677 new cases on Tuesday, January 25. This is the fourth straight day that new virus cases are on the down trend, and the lowest single-day report of new virus cases in 19 days. The last time that the number was lower than this was on […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 24,938 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, January 24, the third straight day that the country posted decreasing new virus cases. On Sunday, January 23, new virus cases hit 29,828. On Saturday, January 22, new cases were 30,552, which were less than Friday’s (January 21) 32,744 new cases. There were also more Covid-19 new recoveries than new cases on Monday. New recoveries hit 35,461; this is […]
Filipino Mark Magsayo dethroned WBC featherweight champ Gary Russell on Saturday with a majority decision to end the longest championship reign in professional boxing. The 26-year-old undefeated Magsayo won on points on two of the three judges’ scorecards as he handed Russell his first defeat since 2015. Two judges had 115-113 for Magsayo while the other scored it even, 114-114. “This is my dream since I was a kid,” said Magsayo. “I am so proud […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines posted 41,471 COVID-19 recoveries on Satuday, January 22, which is the most number of virus recoveries so far this year. This is also higher than the reported new COVID-19 cases on Saturday of 30,552. In the last two days, there were more new cases than new recoveries. Saturday’s number of new recoveries were the highest in over three months. The last time that there were higher number of recoveries […]
Almost all regions with rising COVID cases (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that almost all regions in the country have rising COVID-19 cases, and most have moderate risk health care utilization of between 50 percent to 70 percent. But there were additional regions which recorded high-risk health care utilization rate of over 70 percent which the DOH is closely observing. These are Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) with 72 percent; Region […]
But new COVID cases in Metro Manila decreasing (Eagle News) – Rising COVID-19 cases outside Metro Manila is driving the renewed increase in virus cases in the country, according to OCTA Research. This came about as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 32,744 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, January 21, with new COVID-19 deaths also rising to 156. This is the second straight day that new virus cases have increased. Those who recovered were […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines’ new COVID-19 cases reached 31,173 on Thursday, January 20, again increasing after four straight days of declining new cases and after two days that new COVID-19 cases were below 30,000. New recoveries reached 26,298 while new COVID deaths reached 110. Before this, recoveries were already increasing and even exceeded new cases in the last two days. On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, new recoveries reached a high of 36,611 while […]
Almost 120 million doses already administered nationwide; 56.4 million already fully vaccinated. (Eagle News) – The Philippines ranked third among ASEAN countries and 11th in Asia for having the most COVID-19 vaccines administered, according to Malacanang. In the ASEAN region as of January 17, 2022, Indonesia topped countries for having the most vaccine doses administered with 296,140,303 total administered doses and almost 1.3 billion doses daily rate of doses administered (7-day average), followed by […]
Only Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccine doses as booster shots to be used in pilot run since these jabs don’t need ultra-cold storage, according to DOH (Eagle News) – Walk-ins are allowed in the “Resbakuna sa Botika” program that starts today, Thursday, January 20, but they have to still online when they arrive in participating pharmacies which are part of the pilot implementation in Metro Manila. COVID-19 testing czar Secretary Vince Dizon said that the […]
New Omicron cases detected in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao; more local and ROF cases recorded (Eagle News) – The Philippines’ total Omicron variant cases reached 535 after the addition of 492 new Omicron cases with addresses spread country-wide, from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, based on the latest genome sequencing of the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center. The latest data also showed an increased number of new local cases, at 332, as well as […]
