The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infection rate among students of limited face-to-face classes nationwide is “very low” and has no fatality reported. Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chair Prospero de Vera III said Tuesday all students who were infected did not need hospitalization and were asymptomatic. There are more than 9,000 students physically attending classes in 118 approved medical and health institutions. “The infection rate was very, very low. It is less than one percent. It is .03 percent of the students who got infected. All of the students gumaling na, walang namatay (have recovered, no one died), so that
Around 131,036 personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been provided with the first dose of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines as of August 30. AFP public affairs office chief Navy Capt. Jonathan Zata on Tuesday said some 55,527 were already finished with their second dose of the vaccine. Vaccines utilized by the AFP in its inoculation program are Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Pfizer, Janssen, and Moderna. “A total of 16,526 (Covid-19) cases were recorded in the AFP of which 1,327 are active,” he noted. As of August 30, Zata said the AFP has posted 14,657
The Department of Health on Tuesday said a total of 33,099,392 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have already been administered since the jab rollout started in March. As of August 29, it said around 19,314,711 of the total doses were administered as first dose while the 13,784,681 were fully vaccinated. The DOH said the average daily administered doses in the last seven days is 387,176 in 1,821 vaccination sites. Among the priority population, around 1,947,635 healthcare workers have been fully vaccinated while 2,360,067 have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Meantime, around 2,386,499 workers belonging to essential sectors have been
The Philippines has extended anew the travel ban from India and nine other countries until Sept. 5 to prevent and slow down the spread of Covid-19, Malacañang said on Tuesday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement after health authorities recorded 22,366 fresh cases of Covid-19, the country’s highest-ever tally in the pandemic, on Aug. 30. “President Rodrigo Roa Duterte approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to extend the current travel restrictions in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia from September 1 to 5, 2021,” Roque said in a
The province of Antique will begin its vaccination program for those belonging to the A5 priority group or indigent population on September 1. “We had been waiting quite long for the seniors to avail of the Covid-19 vaccination, but still the same, there are a few of them who availed of the vaccine,” said Dr. Leoncio Abiera, Jr., of the Antique Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO), during the Inter-Agency Task Force on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) virtual meeting Tuesday. He said if the seniors refuse to be vaccinated then it is better to start inoculating the willing A5 beneficiaries. A
The state-owned Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) is supposedly taking “too long” to pay hospital claims because president and CEO Dante Gierran wanted to be “careful” to avoid more issues from hounding the state insurer. President Rodrigo Duterte made this statement amid criticism over PhilHealth’s pace in processing unpaid claims which resulted in the closure of some hospitals and affected hospitals’ manpower amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Duterte said he called Gierran to explain why there were delays in the payment of hospital claims. “Tinanong ko siya, pinatawag ko, ‘Bakit mahina ka?’ Sabi niya, ‘Alam mo kasi ang trabaho na ito
