It is still premature to lift the mandatory use of face masks in outdoor settings as COVID-19 admissions have slightly increased since the restriction was eased, a top official of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI) said.
The Department of Health has bared its plan to conduct a special week of vaccination drive by the end of the month in line with the efforts to ramp up the country’s immunity against COVID-19.
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature, ov