 | Virus cases continue rising by over 3,000 a day August 7, 2020 CORONAVIRUS infections in the country continued to increase by more than 3,000 per day for nine consecutive days.The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, August 7, 2020,... | |  | Palace shrugs off rising infections, cites improved testing By Jove Moya MALACAÑANG on Friday, August 7, downplayed reports that the Philippines is now Southeast Asia's Covid-19 hotspot after it surpassed Indonesia in terms of the number of coronavirus infections.As of August 6, the Philippines reported a... |  | DOH to miss target for Japanese flu drug trials THE Department of Health (DOH) said it would not be able to start trials for Japanese flu drug Avigan as targeted on Monday, August 10, 2020, because some legal documents were still being finalized."We first said we will start on... |  | Strict measures for Cebu City LSIs coming from Metro Manila DUE to a recent spike in the number of Covid-19 infections in Metro Manila, Cebu City residents who are stranded in the country's capital must first comply with additional requirements before they can be allowed to come back home.The... |  | Medical frontliners to get free rides, motorcycle barriers By Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo MOTORCYCLE ride hailing services provider Angkas said it will deploy 1,000 riders to provide free rides to medical frontliners in Metro Manila beginning Saturday, August 8, 2020.It also donated 1,000 motorcycle barriers, which will be... |  | House-to-house check set in 10 Metro Manila barangays TEAMS led by the Department of Health (DOH) are set to conduct house-to-house visits in 10 barangays in 10 different cities in Metro Manila as part of efforts to find people who have been infected with Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes... |  | EXPLAINER: We shift from one CQ to another even as we wait for New Normal. Will NN, the non-quarantine category, get back in the list? By Pachico A. Seares THE SITUATION. The Inter-Agency Task Force for Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) created and applied four kinds of community quarantine for the pandemic. They are, in the order of severity: enhanced (ECQ), modified enhanced... |  | Capitol to release P336.6M THE Cebu Provincial Government will release funds totaling about P336.6 million to help local government units (LGUs) and businesses across the province hurdle the Covid-19 crisis.Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia made the announcement in a speech... |  | Frontliners take online course on Covid-19 contact tracing MORE than 400 police officers and medical workers in Central Visayas will graduate from Johns Hopkins University's online course on identifying individuals exposed to people infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).About 250... |  | India hits 2 million coronavirus cases as deaths pass 41,000 NEW DELHI -- India hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, crossing two million cases of infection and more than 41,000 deaths.India's health ministry also reported recoveries as a share of total cases are also... | |
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