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(Eagle News) – The Philippine government has added a new metric before an area such as the National Capital Region (NCR) could be deescalated to Alert Level 1. Secretary Francisco Duque III of the Department of Health (DOH) said that aside from decreasing number of new cases, declining Covid positivity rate, and low-risk health care utilization rates, 80 percent of the senior citizens and other vulnerable groups such as those with comorbidities should have […]
(Eagle News) — Vince Dizon has resigned as president of the Bases and Conversion Development Authority (BCDA). Dizon, however, will remain in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet as the country’s testing czar and deputy chief implementer of the National Task Force against COVID-19. This was revealed in the hearing on the proposed P6.487-billion budget of the BCDA for 2022 in the Senate on Monday, Oct. 18. Dizon’s resignation as BCDA president reportedly became effective on […]
(Eagle News) – The country’s COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon is hoping that the Department of Health would soon release guidelines regarding saliva tests as an alternative to RT-PCR tests or swab tests in determining if the person has the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Dizon said that the DOH is still in the process of validating this saliva test as an alternative to swab tests. He also said that the Philippine Red Cross […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, July 13, named the four “czars” who will directly oversee several aspects of the Philippines’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar will be the “chief isolation czar.” Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong was named the “contact tracing czar,” or the person in charge of the country’s contact tracing efforts. The Baguio government has […]
(Eagle News) – At least 78 COVID-19 patients who recovered while under quarantine at the Philippine Arena “We Heal as One Center” were given an inspiring send-off ceremony on Friday, June 5, thankful that they can now go home to their families. Philippine National Task Force against COVID-19 officials led by Deputy Chief implementer Vince Dizon, and the frontliners — the health care workers who treated the COVID-19 patients as family — were on […]
(Eagle News) – After building quarantine and isolation facilities, the Philippine government will now also be embarking on building mega swabbing facilities. This is part of the country’s push for massive testing for COVIS-19 nationwide, Malacanang said. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., announced that there are already four mega-swabbing facilities in place that had been approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) -4 mega swabbing facilities set up so far- Currently, […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has named Bases Conversion and Development Authority chief Vince Dizon as deputy chief implementer of government’s action plan against COVID-19. Dizon’s appointment was contained in a memorandum issued by Executive Salvador Medialdea on Friday, May 1. Presidential Peace Adviser Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. is the country’s chief COVID-19 action plan implementor. So far, the Philippines has confirmed over 8000 COVID-19 cases, with recoveries widening their lead over deaths. The Department of […]
