A total of 305 patients in Soccsksargen have recovered from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as of Friday night, the regional health office here reported. “This is the second-highest record for recovered patients in the region for a single day,” Arjohn Gangoso, acting spokesperson of the Department of Health (DOH) 12 (Soccsksargen), told reporters in an interview Saturday. Of the total recoveries, South Cotabato topped with 201; followed by General Santos City, 58; North Cotabato, 29; and Sultan Kudarat, 17. The highest number of recoveries in a single day was logged on June 29, with 382 patients beating the disease
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will deploy about 15,000 officers to secure President Rodrigo Duterte’s final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26. In a statement on Saturday, PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said the National Capital Region Police (NCRPO) under Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao is preparing for the event at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City. Eleazar led SONA security in 2016 and 2017 as Task Group Quezon Commander and in 2018 and 2019 as NCRPO director and head of the Security Task Force. Amid the pandemic and the threat of the Delta variant, Eleazar urged groups
_:x A total of 555 inmates and jail personnel got their first dose of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) jabs during the vaccination rollout at the Davao City Jail (DCJ) on July 15. Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the Covid-19 Task Force, said in a radio interview Friday the vaccination at the DCJ targets to inoculate 1,000 jail personnel and inmates. “The recipients of the vaccine are those who belong to A2 (senior citizens) and A3 (persons with comorbidities),” Schlosser said. Meanwhile, Capt. Ellen Rose Garcia, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Davao’s Community Relations Service and Inmates Welfare and
The number of recoveries from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Central Luzon has reached 125,879 after 210 were recorded as of Friday night. In its latest case bulletin, the Department of Health-Central Luzon Center for Health Development (DOH-CLCHD) said this is equivalent to a 94.1 percent recovery rate out of a total of 133,803 cases in the region since the start of the pandemic. The region also logged 581 new infections, raising its total active case tally to 4,595 or 3.4 percent of the total number of cases. Of these, 68 are asymptomatic, 4,349 are mild, 83 are moderate,
The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Friday night criticized the United States-based firm Simularity for “discrediting” Beijing over its report that called on Chinese ships to stop dumping human waste in the Spratlys. “The Chinese Embassy strongly condemns the said company’s act of fabricating facts, violating professional ethics, and maliciously spreading fake news against China. For a long time, anti-China forces like this company have spared no efforts to produce lies and hype up the South China Sea issue to discredit and demonize China, create hatred and anti-China sentiments in the Philippines,” the embassy said in a statement. It also
The province of Sarangani is home to probably the biggest carabao in Mindanao. An 18-year-old carabao owned by a farmer in Barangay Pangi, Maitum town has won an online fun search for the biggest traditional farm animal initiated by Mindanao Development Authority chairperson, Secretary Emmanuel Piñol. It measures 141 inches long from nose to tail and 61 inches tall, much larger than the 50 inches to 54 inches average for a male Philippine carabao or domestic swamp-type water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). “This is the biggest that I’ve seen in my entire life,” Piñol said in a video posted on YouTube
