Health

‘Too Cautious’: Gordon Says PhilHealth Boss ‘Fears’ Accelerating Payment of P1.1-B Debt to PRC

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) President Dante Gierran is being “too cautious” to expedite the agency’s payment of its more than $ 1 billion debt to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC ), Senator Richard Gordon said Tuesday. Gordon surmised that Gierran is cautious because he fears …

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1,524 new COVID-19 cases raise PH count to 373,144

[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 27) – Coronavirus cases in the country surpassed 373,000 with 1,524 new infections reported by the Health Department on Tuesday. The national count is now 373,144, of which 37,489 or 10 percent are currently ill patients. This count excludes the most recent data from …

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Immunity to Covid-19 Decreases, British Study Finds

[ad_1] Researchers who sent home fingerstick tests to more than 365,000 randomly selected people in England found a decrease of more than 26% in Covid-19 antibodies in just three months. “We observed a significant decrease in the proportion of the population with detectable antibodies during three rounds of national surveillance, …

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