A local health official announced Tuesday that five cases of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are completing their 14-day quarantine. Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite, city health officer, said the Philippine Genome Center released the test results on August 28, through the Department of Health-9 (DOH-9). Miravite said the five patients placed under quarantine are all members of a household with index case working in a local shipping firm. “The five Delta variant patients are asymptomatic and well and (up) for completion of quarantine,” Miravite said. The first confirmed case of Delta variant was a
Lawmakers led by Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday filed a measure seeking to increase the compensation and benefits of barangay health workers (BHWs) to strengthen the primary healthcare system amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. Cayetano filed House Bill 10112, which seeks to require local government units to hire and compensate barangay health workers as job order, casual, contractual, or regular employees. The bill also seeks to establish the Special Barangay Health Workers Assistance Program under the Department of Health. The program will provide additional financial and technical assistance, training, and other forms of support to BHWs of
The Department of Health Center for Health and Development in Ilocos Region (DOH-CHD-1) recorded 27 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Delta variant as of August 30. In a phone interview on Tuesday, DOH-CHD-1 Covid-19 focal person Dr. Rheuel Bobis said the results of the genome sequencing were forwarded to them over the weekend. “As of today (August 31), we are still waiting for the confirmation of the concerned local government units (LGU). We will wait for their confirmation before we announce the breakdown of the new cases,” he said. He added the city has already confirmed one Delta
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday said 120 more Filipinos abroad have recuperated from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) over the past week, raising the recovery count to 12,928. It also logged 193 new infections and two fatalities, pushing the active cases and death toll to 8,609 and 1,369, respectively. “Compared to last week’s figures, the total number of Covid-19 fatalities, recoveries, and those under treatment saw a slight increase of 0.15 percent, 0.94 percent, and 0.83 percent, respectively,” it said. Over the past week, the Americas was the only region that did not record new cases. Since the
A total of 578,608 residents and workers have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine here as of August 29, the Davao City Vaccination Cluster reported on Tuesday. Data posted on the Davao City Facebook page also showed 342,741 have acquired full protection from among the five priority groups – medical workers, senior citizens, adults with comorbidities, economic front-liners, and indigents. The city government is targeting to vaccinate 1.2 million, or 70 percent of its total population. “We already reiterated our instruction to the vaccine cluster to ramp up the vaccination drive so that we will finish the first
CEBU CITY – The city government here on Tuesday warned the public against persons peddling fake vaccination cards to be used as travel or work requirements. Councilor Dave Tumulak said carrying a fake vaccination card would not serve a purpose because authorities can still find out the authenticity of the document that only the government can issue. He stressed that faking the inoculation document will not help its holder and his family from being protected against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). “It is better that every LGU (local government unit) has to introduce security features like unique QR code of their
