MANILA—San Juan City’s active Covid-19 cases are down to 88, which Mayor Francis Zamora on Friday attributed to residents’ efforts to follow health protocols. Zamora said the city recorded as many as 1,296 active cases on April 12. “I attribute this to the concerted efforts of the San Juaneño people to follow health protocols and our local government’s intensified vaccination program in San Juan,” Zamora said in a statement. San Juan has already vaccinated 33,736 residents, representing 40 percent of the city’s 85,400 target population for inoculation. He also thanked the national government for providing a steady supply that ensures

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) assured that it is boosting measures against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Visayas and Mindanao, which both grapple with a surge in infections. In a virtual presser on Friday, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the Bicol Region in Luzon, the regions of Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region, Soccsksargen, Caraga, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have logged a two-week growth rate in new cases while those in the National Capital Region (NCR) and its neighboring areas are on a decline. “Patuloy po ang

MANILA – Fully vaccinated individuals should keep their vaccination cards as the government prepares a digital identification system to verify the Covid-19 vaccination status of an individual. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said the Department of Information and Communications Technology is expected to launch the digital vaccine ID within a month. “I think in a few weeks, around one month, we will complete this digital card, and hopefully a QR code system also system wherein the vaccine ID will be centralized and consolidated and in digital form,” Lopez said in a Laging Handa public briefing Friday.