A total of 110 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) have availed of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination conducted by the Antique Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) on Monday. IPHO information officer Irene Dulduco said in an interview Tuesday that they conducted a one-day Covid-19 vaccination activity for the PDLs at the Antique Rehabilitation Center (ARC) in Binirayan Hills, Barangay 8 here. “The PDLs belonged to the A5 (indigent) priority group, but then there were also some seniors under the A2,” she said. Fourteen of the vaccinees are seniors who were vaccinated with Moderna and Pfizer. Meanwhile, ARC jail warden
Typhoon Jolina has made another landfall in Dimasalang, Masbate, a weather forecaster said Tuesday afternoon. “Jolina” first made a landfall in Hernani, Eastern Samar around 10 p.m. Monday. It hit land again in Daram, Santo Niño, Almagro, all in Samar early Tuesday. “It was last seen in the vicinity of Dimasalang. It still packs maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center, and gustiness of up to 150 kph,” Joey Figuracion of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said. The typhoon is moving west northwest at 15 kph. Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS)
The Pangasinan Provincial Health Office (PHO) has confirmed that the 11 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Delta variant cases in the province have recovered. In a phone interview with the Philippine News Agency on Tuesday, PHO chief Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman said out of the 11 recovered patients, six were cases of local transmission. “They are residents of the province. Some might have acquired it from going in and out of the province as they are authorized persons outside of residence or they might have had interaction with visitors from outside of the province,” she said. She added the
The city government of Manila will build another hospital to meet the growing needs of its constituents and address the continuous rise of Covid-19 cases. It will be the city’s seventh public hospital, the others being Ospital ng Sampaloc, Ospital ng Tondo, Ospital ng Maynila, Sta. Ana Hospital, Justice Abad Santos Medical Center, and Gat Andres Bonifacio Medical Center. The 344-bed Manila Covid-19 Field Hospital at the Quirino Grandstand, launched in June, also accepts even non-residents with mild to moderate Covid-19 cases. During a meeting with the city council on Monday, Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said the planned hospital
An additional 18,945 patients have beaten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the country’s overall recovery count to 1,928,173 as of Tuesday. The Department of Health (DOH), in its latest Covid-19 bulletin, said recoveries account for 90.9 percent out of a total of 2,121,308 infections since the start of the pandemic last year. Another 18,012 new cases and 161 deaths were also reported. These figures bring the overall tally of active cases to 158,637 and the death toll to 34,498. The latest figures showed 92 percent of the active cases are mild, 3.4 percent are asymptomatic, 1.4 percent are severe,
Zamboanga del Sur is asking the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to place the province under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Dr. Anatalio Cagampang Jr., Zamboanga del Sur provincial IATF-EID chairperson, said Tuesday the MECQ will lessen the number of people going out of their homes to help curb the spread of the virus. Cagampang, who is also the chief of Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center (ZDSMC), expressed apprehension that the healthcare system of the province might collapse if Covid-19 cases will not be
