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I recently stumbled on a YouTube post showing a government press conference. Sitting shoulder to shoulder were several officials to be interviewed. None had masks on. It was a classic example of a common misconception around COVID-19…
GENEVA — The World Health Organization called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission. A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox —…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Residents of Mandaue City are encouraged to get a vaccine or booster shot against COVID-19. City Councilor Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, chairperson on the Committee on Health, made this call as she would want Mandauehanons…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday recorded 3,574 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest since the year began, together with 14,644 recoveries. This was registered, however, amid a low number of tests at…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City Health Office has recorded a drop of about 50 percent in the number of COVID-19 doses administered in a day during the past few days. Dr. Debra Maria Catulong, medical…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The 31 minors and four staff from the Home Care Center for Children in Barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City have already been declared clinically recovered from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Annabeth Cuizon, head…
GENEVA, Switzerland – COVID-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday,March 18, 2021, cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors. More than a year after the novel…
Taal volcano’s latest tantrums, “tampo,” seem to be a way to remind us about the first quarter of 2020 that started with its eruption even as a new lethal virus, still unnamed, percolated. It’s a tiny virus,…
New York, United States— Closed schools, surging poverty, forced marriages and depression — after a year of the pandemic, indicators measuring child and adolescent development have all regressed, a setback that heralds lasting stigma for an entire…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) has inspected at least two potential vaccination sites for barangay health workers and frontliners here. Cebu City Councilor David Tumulak led the inspection of the Don Bosco Youth Center…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected all 80 barangays in Cebu City, barely a year after the first confirmed patients here were reported. Data from the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) showed…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) reiterated its suggestions that placing entire Cebu island under stricter quarantine status is not appropriate in addressing the continuous rise of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). “We don’t…
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