TALISAY City reported 71 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, bringing active cases in the southern Cebu city to 218, and leaving just one barangay…
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Cebu City hits 505 new Covid cases on Jan. 15
CEBU City recorded the highest number of new daily infections at 505 cases and the highest positivity rate at 33.05 percent on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022.These figures are the highest…
500 active cases in Cebu City, as new covid cases back in 3 digits
CEBU CITY’s active Covid-19 cases have breached the 500 mark after the city returned to recording new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases at the triple-digit level Sunday.Councilo…
17,220 new Covid cases hike PH positivity rate to 36.9%; Cebu hits 9.16% positivity
THE Philippines’ tally of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases continued to grow with 17,220 more infections reported by the Department of Health (DOH) nationwide on Thursday, Janu…
Cebu City’s active Covid cases grow tenfold in 3 days: EOC
IN JUST three days, the number of active coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in Cebu City has grown tenfold.Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the Emergency Ope…
Metro Manila at critical risk from coronavirus
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter THE PHILIPPINE capital and nearby cities were now at critical risk from the coronavirus, the country’s Health chief said, as the country struggles to contain a fresh surge in infections spurred by the highly mutated Omicron variant. Metro Manila has been among the top three regions with the most […]
VVOC: Expect surge in Cebu Covid cases
A SURGE in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in Cebu is imminent due to the devastation brought by Typhoon Odette (Rai), the Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) reporte…
Virus alert raised in Philippine capital
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter President Rodrigo R. Duterte on New Year’s Eve raised the alert in Manila, the capital and nearby cities to Level 3 from Jan. 3 to 15 amid rising coronavirus infections. The stricter lockdown was imposed after an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases in the past days, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei B. Nograles told a televised news briefing, […]
Gov’t keeps second alert level after infection uptick
THE PHILIPPINES will remain under Alert Level 2 until Jan. 15 after a slight rise in coronavirus infections, according to health authorities, and amid the threat of a more infectious Omicron variant. An inter-agency task force approved a plan to keep all provinces and highly urbanized cities under the second alert level from Jan. 1 […]
Philippines’ 4th case of Omicron variant is passenger from US
THE PHILIPPINES has detected its fourth case of the heavily mutated Omicron coronavirus variant in a passenger who arrived from the United States, the Health department announced Monday. A 38-year-old female arrived from the US on Dec. 10 via Philippine Airlines and was quarantined upon arrival, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario S. Vergeire said an online […]
Philippines reports another record low in COVID cases at 168
THE HEALTH department reported 168 coronavirus infections on Tuesday, the lowest one-day tally since May 22 last year when 163 cases were recorded, although 20 laboratories failed to submit data in the aftermath of typhoon Rai, locally known as Odette. Four laboratories did not operate on Dec. 19. The Philippines now has a total 2.84 […]
Preliminary conference for 3 Marcos disqualification cases set Jan. 7
THREE petitions seeking the disqualification of Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., son and namesake of the late Philippine dictator, from running for president in the May 2022 elections have been set for preliminary conference on Jan. 7. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena V. Guanzon, who is part of the division handling the three cases, made […]
PHL records lowest COVID daily tally since May 2020
A MINOR, accompanied by an elderly relative, gets a coronavirus jab at a shopping mall in Metro Manila. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS THE PHILIPPINES on Sunday reported the lowest number of daily coronavirus infections in nearly 19 months after a number of laboratories failed to submit data on Dec. 17 as one of the […]
Gov’t eyes delivery of 24M coronavirus vaccines this month
THE PHILIPPINES is set to take delivery of 24 million doses of coronavirus vaccines this week, the country’s vaccine chief said. Vaccine czar Carlito G. Galvez, Jr. said the deliveries this week are more than the usual 7 million doses that the state gets in a week. The shipments include vaccines bought by the government […]
Cebu City logs no new Covid-19 cases for first time on Dec. 12
CEBU City logged zero infections from the 500 samples tested on Dec. 12, 2021, the first time since coronavirus disease (Covid-19) reached Cebu. City Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said it was the first time that no Covid-19 infections were recorded from the individuals tested. Garganera said since […]
Guadalupe has 4 active Covid-19 cases, highest among 18 Cebu barangays
ONE barangay in Cebu City has four active Covid-19 cases left. This is the highest among 18 barangays that have Covid-19 cases as of Dec. 9, 2021. Based on data from the Emergency Operations Center headed by north district City Councilor Joel Garganera, the barangay with the highest number of active cases is Guadalupe, which […]
Cebu City records 0.29 percent daily positivity rate on Nov. 29, lowest for 2021 so far
CEBU City has recorded so far its lowest Covid-19 daily positivity rate (DPR) this year on Monday, November 29. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 that it had registered 0.29 percent DPR as only one of the 340 swabbed individuals tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The […]
55 Cebu City barangays report no Covid-19 transmission for 2 weeks
FIFTY-FIVE out of 80 barangays in Cebu City have reported no Covid-19 transmission for the last 14 days, local officials said on Thursday, November 25, 2021. Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, who is also the deputy chief implementer of the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said that as of Thursday, the city had only 64 […]
100,000 Filipinos got additional shots versus coronavirus — DoH
More than 100,000 Filipinos have received additional shots against the coronavirus, according to Philippine health authorities. The country had injected 102,102 additional doses as of Nov. 24, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario S. Vergeire told a virtual news briefing on Thursday. She said 69,971 health workers and 21,139 seniors have received booster shots. Almost 11,000 seriously […]
No new Covid cases in 49 barangays
OF THE 80 barangays in Cebu City, more than half or 49 have had no reported Covid-19 transmissions for two weeks straight. This according to Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, Emergency Operations Center (EOC) deputy chief implementer. Garganera said as of Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, only nine out of the 541 residents that were swabbed […]