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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) is studying whether to recommend the use of antigen self-test kits to detect COVID-19, Health Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire said Wednesday. “Pinagaaralan po ‘yan [We are studying that],” Vergeire…
MANILA, Philippines — There is not enough evidence so far of a local transmission of the Covid-19 variant, health authorities pointed out Saturday. During an online press briefing, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) director Dr. Celia Carlos…
MANILA, Philippines — The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) is eyeing at processing about 10,000 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests a day for the next three months as it prepares to distribute 900,000 test kits in accredited…
MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, vice-chairman of the National Action Plan council against COVID-19, has contracted the coronavirus disease. In a text message to reporters on Tuesday, Año said he received the result from…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has announced that they have delivered four samples of the pilot Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests that they conducted to the Research Institute of Tropical…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The 27-year-old person under investigation (PUI), who died of respiratory illness in Cebu City on Sunday, March 15, 2020, tested negative to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Her swab samples had returned from…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) announced that at least 200 individual would needed to be prioritized for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests. At a press conference on Thursday, March…
“To ensure the safety of medical frontliners, SM is bringing in personal protective equipment (PPE) – face masks, gowns, visors, hoods, gloves, and shoe covers, as well as urgent medical supplies to help government hospitals who…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) announced that samples taken from Butuanon River in Mandaue City had tested positive of the poliovirus. The state’s health department said this as they confirmed another case of…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four patients are now under investigation (PUIs) for suspected 2019 novel coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease (2019-nCoV ARD) in Bohol province. In a situation report of the Bohol Provincial Health Office, nCoV Spokesperson Dr.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The 5-year-old boy from Wuhan, Hubei Province in China may be discharged soon from a hospital in Cebu City, if he will continue to be tested negative of a non-specific coronavirus. In a…
The foreign national who earlier tested positive of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) is now free of the virus, according to the Department of Health. Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy, DOH spokesperson, in a press briefing,…
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