Covid-19 Updates for August 26, 2020

	COVID19 UPDATES
Over 5,000 new infections bring caseload past 200,000 August 26, 2020 THE Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday, August 26, 2020, recorded another spike in new infections, with 5,277 cases added to the country's total caseload.This was... FULL STORY Coronavirus cases accelerate in Negros Occidental FOR the second day in a row, Negros Occidental province in Western Visayas figured in the list of provinces with the highest number of new infections in a single day.Based on the Department of Health (DOH) case bulletin, Negros Occidental... More → Central Visayas logs lowest new Covid-19 cases on August 24 CENTRAL Visayas registered its lowest number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases on Monday, August 24, said Dr. Jaime Bernadas, regional director of the Department of Health (DOH).The DOH Central Visayas Center for Health Development... More → Bohol Covid-19 testing lab gets license to operate THE containerized Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Laboratory of the Provincial Government of Bohol is now operational after it received its license to operate on Monday, August 24, 2020.Bohol Provincial Governor Arthur Yap announced this in... More → Occupancy rate for Covid beds in Cebu City drops to 23 percent By Philip A. Cerojano THE Cebu City Government reports a 77 percent availability of Covid-19 dedicated beds in the city's public and private hospitals, which means that only 23 percent of beds are currently occupied.This, as the number of coronavirus disease... More → Mayor appeals to Duterte: Send us doctors, nurses By Merlinda A. Pedrosa BACOLOD City Mayor Evelio Leonardia submitted an urgent appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte to send an augmentation team of doctors, nurses, and medical technologists from Department of Health (DOH) to Bacolod as an emergency stop-gap... More → Mall requires shoppers to wear face shield; DTI to monitor prices SOME malls in Cebu have required mall goers to wear face shields following the directive of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to wear one for added protection against Covid-19.SM Malls, in a... More → Wedding party guest tests positive for virus; contact tracing ongoing By Ralph Lawrence G. Llemit FORTY individuals who attended a party are currently being contact traced after one of the guests tested positive for coronavirus, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said in a radio interview on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.Duterte-Carpio... More → 6 ka RHU personnel sa Dumanjug gi-Covid; buhatan gisirado TEMPORARYO nga gisuspenso sa Lungsod sa Dumanjug ang operasyon sa ilang Rural Health Unit (RHU) human magpositibo sa coronavirus disease (Covid-19) ang ilang unom ka mga sakop.Kini maoy gipahibaw sa lungsod sa Agusto 26, 2020.Sa miaging... More → Can mosquitoes spread the coronavirus? CAN mosquitoes spread the coronavirus?No. While mosquitoes can spread some diseases, most notably malaria, experts said coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is not among them.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it has no data... More → OPINION MORE OPINION Editorial: 'Twindemic' THE news could have buoyed us a bit amid the weight of this health crisis. Department of Health... Nalzaro: Thou shall not refuse to swab test or else... I WAS informed that there were some persons who "reacted violently" to my column last Monday,...
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