Doctors skip hospital duty due to unpaid benefits

Maricar Cinco 09/07/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The delayed release of benefits and the strain of being at the front line of the fight against COVID-19 amid a record-breaking surge in cases due to the Delta variant are affecting not just…

Stock up on oxygen amid Delta variant risk – WHO

Maricar Cinco 08/04/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) assumes a community transmission of the highly infectious Delta variant is already happening in the country despite the lack of enough sequenced samples it can show as proof and…

Experts against booster shot, mixing vaccine brands

Maricar Cinco 08/02/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID) has recommended against giving a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as mixing brands, citing a “paucity of evidence” to support such possible changes…

DOJ on Pacquiao claim: No stink raised yet vs DOH

Maricar Cinco, Marlon Ramos, Patricia Denise Chiu 07/01/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Manny Pacquiao may have flagged the pandemic spending of the Department of Health (DOH) as questionable, but Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, that the anti-corruption body formed by…

DOH ‘repurposes’ hospital workers’ allowance

Maricar Cinco 06/16/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) had “repurposed” or already spent on other COVID-related matters the funds originally intended as allowances of public hospital employees during the pandemic. Sean Velchez, president of the National Orthopedic…

More COVID beds needed in Visayas, Mindanao

Maricar Cinco 06/08/2021

MANILA, Philippines — As health-care utilization slightly eases in Metro Manila, the Department of Health (DOH) shifts its attention to hospitals in the Visayas and Mindanao, where it noted a “gradual increase” in the number of critical…

Experts to review Sinovac use in kids

Maricar Cinco 06/07/2021

Government medical experts will review the clinical trial data of Sinovac Biotech after China approved the emergency use authorization (EUA) for its COVID-19 vaccine in younger children and adolescents. Dr. Rontgene Solante, a member of the Vaccine…

Duterte ‘sorry,’ returns Sinopharm jabs to China

Leila B. Salaverria, Maricar Cinco, Patricia Denise M. Chiu 05/07/2021

MANILA, Philippines — In a rare response to public criticism, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted it was wrong to get himself inoculated with the Sinopharm vaccine and ordered the return of the remainder of the 1,000 doses donated…

PH detects South Africa variant; ‘fast containment’ pressed

Dona Z. Pazzibungan, Maricar Cinco 03/03/2021

Another more contagious variant of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 that can make vaccines less effective has reached the Philippines, and health authorities say “fast containment” measures are needed to stop its spread. Six cases of the South…

Reopening movie houses puts more people at risk, say health experts

Maricar Cinco 02/15/2021

Health experts also have reservations about reopening enclosed leisure establishments and want more specific measures from the government on how to go about easing the restriction. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases,…

Shock, rage in Los Baños over mayor’s slay

Kimmy Baraoidan, Maricar Cinco 12/05/2020

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — Two shots fired from a distance felled Los Baños Mayor Caesar Perez, the latest local chief executive tagged in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and stricken off the list by an assassin’s…

‘Contactless’ ticket sale eyed for PH ports

Maricar Cinco 09/19/2020

BATANGAS CITY — The government aims to upgrade the ticketing system across Philippine ports in a bid to modernize the cheapest and most accessible transportation between major islands in the country. Should the project materialize, boat passengers,…

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