The country’s positivity rate, or the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), has decreased to 6.4 percent as of July 7, from 7.2 percent as of June 30. “The Department of Health (DOH) reported
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will ‘soon’ sign an order to formally lift the state of public health emergency declared due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said Tuesday. ‘Wala pang (There is sti…
Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Tuesday said the Philippines is seen to be malaria-free ‘in two to three years.’ ‘In two to three years, we can announce malaria elimination in the Philippines. Good news ‘yun (That’s good news),’ Herbosa
The Antique provincial government has allocated PHP2 million as financial aid to farmers in the municipality of Hamtic as their livelihood was affected by the African swine fever (ASF). Michelle Bantolo, Social Welfare Officer 1 of the Antique Provinc…
As part of the JICA-UNICEF project to strengthen the Lao PDR’s cold chain capacity, new walk-in cold rooms have been installed in Vientiane to help the country store more vaccines.(KPL) On Jun 29, JICA officially handed over a new
A third super health center (SHC), which will provide more than basic health services, will soon rise in Purok 2, Barangay Guihing here. The SHC, a medium-type polyclinic and bigger than a rural health center, aims to decongest hospitals
A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 29 to deploy Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 5 and Engineering Unit Rotation 2 of Vietnam for peacekeeping operations in the United Nations missions in South Sudan and Abyei.The event
Indonesia’s police are conducting preliminary inquiries into whether any actions by officials at the country’s drug regulator could amount to criminal wrongdoing, as they expand a probe into tainted cough syrups linked to the deaths of more than 200
