Health

[ad_1] CALL US ‘Q BANDS’ A Caloocan city barangay health worker in full protective gear shows a bunch of quarantine bands that the city government has decided to put on the wrists of residents who have been exposed to COVID patients -19 and are in quarantine easy to follow. The …

[ad_1] WHITE SAND DUMP Children play on floating barriers placed near where controversial “white sand” is dumped on the coast of Manila Bay as part of a project to rehabilitate the heavily polluted body of water. —MARIANNE BERMUDEZ MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will …

[ad_1] MAYOR Evelio Leonardia issued Executive Order (EO) 60, placing the city of Bacolod under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) from September 8 to 30 in accordance with Resolution 69-A, 2020 Series dated September 7 of 2020 of the Interagency Working Group for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID). …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Mayor of Manila, Isko Moreno, has written a letter to the Secretary of the Environment, Roy Cimatu, asking him to clarify whether it is true that crushed dolomite, which is used to simulate white sand in Manila Bay, represents a danger to public health. In …

[ad_1] President Rodrigo Duterte has endorsed Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd, telling him that he should not resign despite calls from the Senate that he should be charged in connection with the alleged rampant corruption at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) . On Monday night, the president said he …

[ad_1] The Department of Health (DOH) said Tuesday that home quarantine for Covid-19 patients is still being encouraged as long as the requirements are met. This was the DOH’s reaction when asked for a comment after Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the government is considering strictly implementing a “no home …

[ad_1] “He has an excellent profile and I consider this vaccine … almost perfect, and that he has a near perfect profile,” Sahin said in an exclusive interview with CNN. US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German company BioNTech say they plan to provide 100 million doses of their candidate vaccine, …

[ad_1] Xi Jinping praised China for a “heroic fight” against the coronavirus. Beijing, China: China has passed “an extraordinary historical test” with its handling of the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping said at a triumphant awards ceremony for medical professionals decorated with trumpets and applause on Tuesday. The nation’s propaganda machine …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The government’s COVID-19 task force has permitted the use of antigen testing as a pre-boarding requirement for asymptomatic domestic travelers. Antigen testing could replace gold standard real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing, spokesman for the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Harry Roque, said …

[ad_1] UAAP, NCAA to help develop guidelines for practices John Bryan Ulanday (Philstar.com) – September 8, 2020 – 2:27 pm MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine College Athletic Association (UAAP) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) pledged their full commitment to help the government’s Technical Working Group (TWG) develop guidelines …