(File photo) MANILA - The government will hold special vaccination days in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to address the low vaccination rate in the region, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said on Thursday. "Mababa pa yung vaccination rate lalo na yung areas ng BARMM, Regions 12 (Soccsksargen), 7 (Central Visayas), medyo mababa pa yung vaccination rate diyan. So talagang sabay ito yung ginagawa natin both monitoring the violations on the election campaign and at the same time sa health protocols (The vaccination rate is still low, especially in the areas of BARMM, Regions 12, 7, the vaccination rate is still relatively low there. So this is really what we are doing both monitoring the violations on the election campaign and at the same time on health protocols)," Ano told reporters during the joint press conference of DILG, Commission on Elections (Comelec), and the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Camp Crame. He said
(PNA file photo by Joey O. Razon) MANILA-The government is keen to address the low daily vaccination output nationwide, particularly in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). During the prerecorded Talk to the People of President Rodrigo Duterte aired late Tuesday night, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. cited that BARMM has the lowest vaccination output among 17 regions in the country, with only 25 percent of its target population fully vaccinated. Galvez said both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Department of Health (DOH) have raised alarm over the possible surge of Covid-19 cases in BARMM amid the start of the month-long observation of Ramadhan. "So ang nakikita po namin talaga nagkakaroon po tayo ng demand issue at saka po 'yung mga vaccine preference (We see that there is an emerging demand issue and vaccine preferences) in the area," he said. Galvez cited some Muslims refusing to get vac
MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday reported 2,196 new Covid-19 infections, marking another drop in the number of cases from Wednesday's 2,671. This is the fourth straight day the Philippines logged cases below 3,000. In its daily Covid-19 bulletin, the DOH said there were 4,409 new recoveries, lower than Wednesday's 6,130, that bring the country's total recoveries to 3,524,875 or 96.7 percent of all confirmed cases. To date, there are 66,588 active cases of Covid-19 nationwide, with about 93 percent made up of mild or asymptomatic cases. Most active cases have mild symptoms at 60,848, followed by those with moderate symptoms at 2,913, the asymptomatic at 1,090, those with severe symptoms at 1,428, and those in critical condition at 309. There were 107 new deaths attributed to Covid-19, which brings the total of local Covid-19 deaths to 55,330 or 1.52 percent of confirmed cases. Based on the latest testing data, there were 29,392 Covid-19 tests administered