THE FIRST week of 2022 saw the steady rise in the number of COVID-19 cases and the looming threat of the Omicron variant. Perhaps in an attempt to calm
I HATE to be a Debbie Downer but by the looks of things, 2022 as the online joke goes is turning out to be “2020, too.” That is, as far as the Covid-19 situation is in this country. As I write this, the Department of Health (DOH) has reported 32,246 new Covid…
The reduced isolation period is not advisable for the Philippines at this moment, said a public health expert on Thursday, Jan. 13.
Photo from Tony Leachon’s Facebook page / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN In a Facebook post, public health expert and former National Task Force (NTF) against coron
"What the mayors agreed on was that we will maintain Alert Level 3, and we will continuously monitor specifically [utilization] rates, but for the meantime the mayors see no need to raise to Alert Level 4."
Some medical experts are calling on the government to escalate the alert level in areas with increasing coronavirus infections, particularly Metro Manila which accounted for the majority of new COVID-19 cases.