Health

[ad_1] Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, Deputy Director of EOC Implementation, is warning of a shutdown in the city if the trend of increasing COVID-19 cases continues. | CDN digital file photo CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center is warning the public that if the rising …

[ad_1] Major Edgardo Labella. (CDN FILE PHOTO / LITO TECSON) CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines – Mayor Edgardo Labella has banned Christmas carols from city streets and neighborhoods to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “In order to ensure that the City’s programs and measures to mitigate …

[ad_1] A FOOTWEAR store was ordered to close two hours after its grand opening on Wednesday, November 12, 2020, for various violations such as not observing social distancing. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella ordered the closure of JS Footwear in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City. A City Council team that inspected …

[ad_1] Brazil’s national health regulator allowed clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine developed in China to resume on Wednesday, two days after suspending them in what critics called a decision tainted by politics. A nurse shows a Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech at the Sao Lucas …

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, predicted that positive data from a second Covid-19 vaccine could come quickly after the robust results of this week’s trial from Pfizer and BioNTech. Dr. Fauci told the FT Live Global Pharmaceutical Summit on Wednesday that he was optimistic about an upcoming …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – While the initial results of Pfizer’s large-scale clinical trial of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate were encouraging, on Wednesday the Department of Health (DOH) sought to temper public expectations, advising people to continue to observe the preventive health measures, especially as the total number of coronavirus infections …

[ad_1] By Belinda Goldsmith For Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan, the vision of nurses around the world risking their lives to fight COVID-19 with limited resources brought back memories of how she breastfed her invalid father as a teenager in Cuba. At the family home in Havana, Estefan spent five years …

[ad_1] The country’s money supply and bank lending expanded in September, but at a moderate pace, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the central bank said domestic liquidity (M3) rebounded 12.3 percent year-on-year to P13.5 trillion in the ninth month, slower than the 13.7 …

[ad_1] Manuel B. Villar Jr., a former politician who currently runs his family’s business, is on Forbes Asia magazine’s list of entrepreneurs in the region who are helping those in need, especially during the pandemic. In its article titled “Heroes of Philanthropy,” the magazine listed the 15 richest people in …

[ad_1] The government is now looking to finalize the number of vaccines against the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that it will be able to buy this month, as the president discovered an additional $ 300 million funding source for the acquisition of vaccines. Philippine officials are currently in bilateral talks …