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(PNA photo by Alfred Frias) MANILA - The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid -19) infections nationwide are less likely to reach 700 cases per day by Feb.15, a health expert said Wednesday. In a televised public briefing, infectious disease expert Dr. Rontgene Solante said the Covid-19 cases have not significantly increased after the holidays and the Feast of the Black Nazarene, noting that most active cases only have mild symptoms. "Doon sa mga na-ospital mayroon pa ring mga mangilan-ilan na na-admit, pero iyong mga hospital occupancy ng mga Covid infection, hindi tumaas more than 50 percent. So, nai-stabilize siya (There are still some admitted to hospitals, but the hospital occupancy for Covid infections, is not more than 50 percent. So, it is stabilized)," he said. Earlier, the Department of Health (DOH) warned the public that infections may reach 730 per day by mid-February if observation of minimum public health standards is ignored. Solante said the low number of ....
Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire (PNA photo) MANILA - The country is "ready" should the World Health Organization (WHO) decide to lift the global public health emergency declared due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a health official said on Tuesday. "The implications of a global health emergency or the public health emergency definitely will be in our borders and we have seen and that slowly we have eased our restrictions across our borders also and until now we are managing our cases," Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a media forum. She made the statement following a news report which disclosed that the WHO Emergency Committee will meet on Jan. 27 to discuss whether Covid-19 still represents a global health emergency. Nationally, the state of calamity due to Covid-19 declaration seems to have a small probability to be extended as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. previously expressed hesitanc ....
(PNA file photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - The country's daily average of new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases went down by 6 percent from Jan. 9 to 15, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. In its latest case bulletin, the DOH noted the daily infections decreased to 419 in the recent week from 447 infections from Jan. 2 to 8. The DOH also reported 2,934 new cases and 116 verified deaths. Of the additional deaths, about 14 occurred from Jan. 2 to 15, 2023. To date, the country has logged over 4.07 million coronavirus cases and more than 65,590 fatalities. During the same week, one case was added to the tally of severe and critical infections, which also went up to 567 from the previous week's 507. Only 17.2 percent or 402 out of the 2,340 intensive care unit (ICU) beds are in use, while 20 percent or 3,917 of 19,607 non-ICU beds are utilized. About 73,803,831 or 94.5 percent of the country's target population (78,100,578) are vaccinated against Covid-19, includ ....