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The Philippine government has suspended the entry of foreign nationals and returning overseas Filipinos who are non-overseas Filipino workers into the country starting Saturday, March 20 until Monday, April 19. The National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) said this would prevent a further rise in coronavirus cases as well as to prevent the entry of coronavirus variants from other countries. ....
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published March 15, 2021 1:24pm The Philippines has inoculated 193,492 health workers against COVID-19 as of March 13, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said this makes up 34% of half of the 1,125,600 doses that have arrived in the country. The other half of the doses is reserved for the health workers second dose. The DOH also said 90% of stocks have been distributed to vaccination sites. Duque lauded Metro Manila for achieving a high COVID-19 vaccination coverage. “Let me tell you that NCR has performed quite well, they’re now [at] 70% for the first dose of inoculation,” he said in a briefing following the launch of the European Union’s support to the country’s COVID-19 response. ....
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published March 15, 2021 12:39pm While the national utilization rate of beds and mechanical ventilators dedicated to COVID-19 patients is still considered low-risk at 35%, intensive care unit (ICU) beds are slowly being used up, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. Dr. Beverly Ho, director of the DOH Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Control bureaus, said Metro Manila’s ICU occupancy rate is already in the moderate-risk classification at 65%. The capital region’s overall healthcare utilization rate (HCUR) stood at 49% while 38% of mechanical ventilators are in use. The DOH also said a 47% HCUR and 49% ICU bed occupancy rate was logged in Central Visayas; 33% HCUR and 52% ICU utilization in Davao Region; and 56% HCUR and 71% ICU bed occupancy in the Cordillera region. ....
At least 7% of the samples from COVID-19 cases in the country involve new variants of coronavirus, an official of the Department of Health said on Monday. ....