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Identify criteria for those who can undergo home isolation (Eagle News) – Malacanang and health authorities encouraged the public experiencing mild symptoms and those who have no symptoms at all to just self-quarantine or isolate at their homes if they do not have senior citizens or those with comorbidities in their households. ”Ito po ang mensahe namin: Tumulong tayong protektahan ang ating healthcare system. Sa mga walang sintomas o may mild or moderate na […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday. The news comes as the country is facing a massive surge in cases that experts say is being under-captured as a result of a testing crunch, with long wait times for the more accurate PCR tests, and home kits in […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — While PCR tests can detect infection with Omicron, studies are looking to whether the Covid-19 variant of concern has any impact on other test types, the WHO said Sunday. “The widely-used PCR tests continue to detect infection, including infection with Omicron, as we have seen with other variants,” the World Health Organization said in an update on what is known so far about the new variant. “Studies are ongoing to determine […]
(Eagle News) – More than 3 million Filipinos have undergone COVID-19 tests, and so far, 10.6 percent of them had tested positive, the Department of Health (DOH) said. As of Sept. 16, the individuals who have been tested “based on the aggregate reports on the total positive and negative tests from laboratories” have reached 3,008,239. Of these individuals, 272,934 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19, which represents 0.25 percent of the population. The number […]
Over 1.7 million COVID-19 tests done in PHL so far (Eagle News) – With more than 30,000 tests done daily, the Philippines is now the country in Southeast Asia with the most number of COVID-19 tests done per day compared to its Southeast Asian neighbors, according to the country’s COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon. Dizon, who is also president of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) cited recent figures from Our World in Data, […]
(Eagle News) — The COVID-19 tests in the country have reached 35,000 per day which is double the daily tests being done in Japan and South Korea, according to COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon. Dizon said that the Philippines has in fact one of the highest number of COVID-19 tests done daily in Asia, as he stressed how COVID-19 tests in the country had increased in the past few weeks. But he said that […]
(Eagle News) – More than 1 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted so far in the Philippines, based on data from the Department of Health. The end of July target of 1 million tests was reached on July 16 when the DOH reported than 1,009,511 inidividuals have been already tested for COVID-19 tests done. As of Saturday, July 18, the number of individuals who have been given COVID-19 tests reached 1,058,764 already. This […]
(Eagle News) – Almost a million Filipinos have already been reached by COVID-19 testing and in a few days, more than a million would have undergone testing for the virus, according to deputy chief implementer of the National Action Plan against COVID-19 and chief testing czar Vince Dizon. In a press briefing, Dizon explained how the COVID-19 tests in the country have widened and increased in the past few weeks, surging to almost 25,000 […]
June 30 target of 50k testing capacity already achieved as of June 19, he says (Eagle News) – The Philippines has so far tested more than 600,000 of the population for COVID-19 and has achieved the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 5 percent positivity rate indicating better management of the coronavirus situation, according to the deputy chief implementer of the national task force against COVID-19, Secretary Vince Dizon. In a regular press briefing […]
EAGLE NEWS —The Republic of Guatemala and its President, Alejandro Giammattei received on June 22, 72,000 RT PCR tests for the detection and diagnosis of the virus causing their respiratory syndrome of COVID-19. This generous donation will serve to strengthen the institutional response of the government of Guatemala to this pandemic. Through this goodwill gesture, President Alejandro Giammattei said that “They’re friends we have to honor such as the European Union.” These 72,000 tests may […]
(Eagle News) — There are now 26 government certified laboratories and facilities that can do COVID-19 tests, increasing the country’s capacity for further virus test processing. The latest to be added was the state-of-the-art Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology Laboratory of the Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital (JBLMGH) in San Fernando, Pampanga which was inaugurated on Saturday, May 9, 2020. JBLMGH was the recipient of the US2.5 million dollar-grant from the […]
DOH lauds LGU’s efforts to do drive-thru COVID-19 tests (Eagle News) – The Philippine government has conducted more than 61,000 COVID-19 tests nationwide as it continued targeted mass testing efforts, prioritizing suspect cases as well as health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that as of Wednesday, April 22, at least 61,049 individual tests had been conducted in the country with only over 12 percent of this testing negative […]
