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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. convened Health officials on Monday to discuss the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the Alert Levels System.
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. meets Health officials to discuss matters concerning Covid-19 in Malacañang on Jul
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(File photo) MANILA - All 17 regions in the country are now classified "minimal risk" for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) while all island groups showed plateauing in the case trend. In an online media forum, Director Alethea de Guzman, Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology Bureau officer-in-charge, said the country logged an average of 380 cases per day for the period of December 8 to 14. The number is 26 percent lower than the average of 516 cases per day during the previous week. "This is among our lowest cases since we had the peak around August 2020 last year, 1,130 cases for the period of December 27 to January 2, and after the April 2021 peak at 4,982 cases for the period of July 12 to 18," De Guzman said. As for the National Capital Region (NCR), the average daily cases reported is lower than the lowest cases after the peak months of August 2020 and April 2021. For the period December 8 to 14, NCR's average daily cases was 83, or 20 percent low
Three travellers who arrived in the Philippines from South Africa, Burkina Faso in West Africa, and Egypt have tested positive for Covid-19 but their samples are still undergoing genome sequencing to determine if they have the Omicron variant.