Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu on Monday assured the dolomite-laced beach along Manila Bay’s Baywalk area remains intact despite high tide and piles of trash at the height of the southwest monsoon or “habagat”. “The dolomite sand has not been washed out and the dolomite pebbles were only pushed to the perimeter of the beach area,” Cimatu said in a statement, citing results of DENR’s latest assessment. Geotubes and geotextiles installed in the area are not damaged, he added. Cimatu ordered DENR Region 4-A Regional Executive Dir. Nilo Tamoria to inventory all fish pens, fish
The medical community in South Cotabato province has offered its services to help fast-track the ongoing mass vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the area. Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. said Monday the South Cotabato Medical Society (Socomed) has created a team of medical workers that may be tapped to assist the vaccination rollout in the province’s 10 towns and lone city. He said the volunteers, composed mainly of doctors, are currently on standby and ready to help with the expansion of the inoculation activities. “We have enough standby volunteers right now that we can deploy as needed,” he
Negros Oriental and this capital city have reported a downward trend in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion, Covid-19 incident commander of the province’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), in a virtual press briefing Monday afternoon said 82 new recoveries were reported on July 24 and July 25, with 44 new cases, which is much lower than the over 200 logged in a single day at the height of the surge of infections in the past months. As of July 26, the total caseload of Negros Oriental is
The Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas has asked the city government here to improve its system in the vaccination rollout against Covid-19 to avoid overcrowding in the centers. Ma. Teresa Caidic, DOH Region 8 chief local support division, said they noticed that during the inoculation schedules of the city, crowding took place outside the venues, especially when the Janssen vaccines were rolled out. The city government has designated the two Robinsons Malls as vaccination sites. “We can consider that as a super spreader event if we have crowding,” Caidic said in a meeting with the Tacloban City Council
The Department of Health (DOH) said the figure is equivalent to a 94.7-percent recovery rate from a total of 1,555,396 infections since the start of the pandemic last year. The DOH also tallied 6,664 new confirmed cases, bringing the total number of active cases in the country to 55,140 or 3.5 percent of all cases. Of the active cases, 93.6 percent are mild, 1.1 percent are asymptomatic, 2.3 percent are severe, 1.61 percent are moderate, and 1.4 percent are in critical condition. Also logged were 23 new fatalities, raising the death toll to 27,247 or 1.75 percent of the total
Some 8,000 residents of Tawi-Tawi have so far been inoculated with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Covid-19 vaccine. Dr. Bashary Latiph, of the Ministry of Health – Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM), said the national government has earlier allotted 30,000 doses of the single-dose vaccine for Tawi-Tawi, the BARMM’s island-province situated in the country’s southern border. “Considering its distance from mainland Mindanao, the national government has earlier made the vaccine allocation for the farthermost province of BARMM,” said Dr. Latiph Bashary, BARMM health minister, on Monday. He said the initial batch of the Janssen vaccines was rolled
