It’s here: PHL logs first 2 cases of Omicron variant
Two international travelers have been found to be positive of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron (B.1.1.529), the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Wednesday.
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Two international travelers have been found to be positive of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron (B.1.1.529), the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Wednesday.
He was not a smoker. In fact he has never tried smoking cigarettes. But when his older brother started bringing home what looked like an attractive device that releases a sweet chocolate smell, Kyle Esposado was amazed. Soon, he started sharing the vape with his brother.
The Department of Education (DepEd) issued a reminder to its officials, teaching, and non-teaching personnel not to engage in electioneering and conducting partisan political activities in relation to the forthcoming May 2022 national and local elections.
“As stated in the Constitution, and in accordance with existing rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec), government officials and employees are prohibited from engaging in any electioneering and partisan political activity to ensure civil servants are focused on public service,” DepEd said.
Teachers serve as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), ensuring clean and honest elections.
As BEIs, teachers oversee polling precincts, verify voters, and handle election-related materials.
“Guided by these policies, we call on our personnel and stakeholders to champion a clean, safe, and fair elections in 2022, for our children and for the future of this nation,” DepEd stressed.
The lists of prohibited acts and excluded activities are emphasized in DepEd Order No. 48, series of 2018 or the Prohibition on Electioneering and Partisan Political Activity and its attached Civil Service Resolution.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday logged 235 additional Covid-19 cases, the lowest daily infection rate recorded yet for this year, but warned that active cases in the country may reach 9,338 on January 31, 2022 based on the agency’s projections.
A total of 360 additional Covid-19 cases were logged by the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,836,803.There were also 519 recoveries and 61 deaths.
Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III on Monday said that the allegation of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is a “lie,” and that the Department of Health (DOH) did not drop the ball on a 50-million syringe procurement deal.
SCHOOL sports returns amid the waning Covid-19 pandemic after the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced on Monday that fully vaccinated student athletes could go back to training—and no longer in a bubble environment.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the Philippine government “dropped the ball again” on procuring Covid-19 supplies as it missed an opportunity to procure syringes for mRNA vaccines from a United States-based pharmaceutical giant.
THE Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday logged 402 additional Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,836,592.
There were also 509 recoveries and 184 deaths.
Of the 402 reported cases on Sunday, 380 (95 percent) occurred within the recent 14 days (November 29-December 12, 2021).
The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR (98 or 26 percent) Region 4-B (42 or 11 percent) and Region 4-A (37 or 10 percent).
Of the 184 deaths, 6 occurred in December 2021 (3 percent), 35 in November 2021 (19 percent), 73 in October 2021 (40 percent) 54 in September 2021 (29 percent), 10 in August 2021 (5 percent), 4 in July 2021 (2 percent), 1 in June 2021 (1 percent) , and 1 in February 2021 (1 percent) due to late encoding of death information to COVIDKaya.
This issue is currently being coordinated by the DOH with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Units to ensure information is up to date.
Of the total number of cases, 0.4 percent (11,255) are active, 97.8 percent (2,775,057) have recovered, and 1.77 percent (50,280) have died.
Six duplicates were removed from the total case count. These 6 are recoveries.
In addition, 164 cases were found to have tested negative and have been removed from the total case count. Of these, 159 are recoveries.
Moreover, 178 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
Four laboratories were not operational on December 10, 2021 while three laboratories were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).
Based on data in the last 14 days, the seven laboratories contribute, on average, 0.5 percent of samples tested and 0.1 percent of positive individuals.
THE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday said that Pfizer has applied for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its Covid-19 vaccine to be used on children ages 5 to 12.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday said that a traveler from South Africa was positive of a variant that is neither variant of concern (VOC) nor variant of interest (VOI).
THE United States Embassy’s Cultural Affairs Officer Nina Lewis believes that more Filipino students are exploring avenues to study in a physical setting in her country which are not available locally at this time.
Two of the seven travelers from South Africa, where the Omicron Covid variant was first detected, are still being traced after five others were already located by the Department of Health (DOH).
The Department of Health reported on Friday that 598 of the 1,232 hospitals in the country recorded no new Covid-19 admissions from December 5 to 9.
No Omicron variant was detected in the latest whole genome sequencing run from the 48 samples sequenced on December 8, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday reminded travelers, specially returning overseas Filipinos (ROF) to provide accurate contact details and travel history, or face penalties stipulated under Republic Act 11332, or the “Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act.”
The country’s case fatality rate (CFR) as of December 7, 2021 is currently at 1.61 percent, which is below the global average of 2.0 percent, the Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said.
Makati Mayor Abby Binay today said both Ospital ng Makati (OsMak) and Makati Medical Center (MMC) have recorded zero Covid patients to date.
Being physically active has many health benefits while being physically inactive is associated with cardiovascular diseases, dementia, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers and stress and anxiety.
While the country’s Covid-19 cases are going down because of mass vaccination, an infectious disease expert advised the younger generations to still take extra safety precautions because they could get infected with the flu and chances of transmitting the virus is higher among their age group.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday logged 356 Covd-19 cases, lowest since July last year, bringing the total number of infections in the Philippines to 2,835,345.
Makati City is making this Christmas merrier for elderly persons as long as they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
AS the pilot run of the face-to-face (F-to-F) classes of the additional 117 schools, including 28 from the National Capital Region (NCR), started on Monday, an official of the Department of Education (DepEd) assured that they are constantly coordinating with the Department of Health (DOH) amid the reported creeping spread of Covid-19 Omicron variant in other countries.
The Department of Health (DOH), reiterating that there’s still yet no reported case of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, on Monday said the agency is still tracing the whereabouts of eight more travelers from South Africa who arrived in the Philippines between November 15 and 29.
THE Covid-19 cases in the Philippines reached 2,834,775 after the Department of Health (DOH) logged 603 additional infections on Sunday. There were also 1,047 recoveries and 156 deaths.
Samples of three travelers from South Africa, Egypt, and Burkina Faso will be sent to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) for genome sequencing after their RT-PCR tests yielded positive results from Covid-19, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.
A total of 117 schools will participate in the pilot implementation of the face-to-face (F-to-F) classes on December 6, the Department of Education (DepEd) said.
The Department of Health (DOH) has announced that all fully vaccinated adults are eligible to receive Covid-19 booster shots starting today, Friday, December 3, 2021.
Thirty-nine violators of the number-coding scheme were apprehended by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) during the first day of its implementation.
MMDA Chairman Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos paid the P300-penalty of the violators out of his own pocket.
But according to the agency’s public information office, Abalos is hoping that the apprehended motorists will not violate the scheme again.
The MMDA began to reimpose the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or number coding scheme on Wenesday from Mondays to Fridays between 5 p.m. to 8 p.m..
It aims to reduce at least 2,700 vehicles per hour plying along Edsa alone.
Abalos said that the reimplementation of the number coding scheme was already approved by the Metro Manila Council (MMC) through a resolution on the implementation of the calibrated traffic mitigation measures in the National Capital Region (NCR) aimed to avoid a traffic management crisis in the future.
According to MMDA Resolution No. 21-30, per the recent travel survey and analysis which was conducted by the MMDA Traffic Engineering Center, including vehicle volume count, travel time and travel speed study, and average daily traffic rate, it was determined that the current traffic situation is approaching the pre-pandemic levels.
The number coding scheme in the metropolis will only cover private vehicles. Vehicles with plates ending in 1 and 2 are prohibited on Monday, 3 and 4 on Tuesday, 5 and 6 on Wednesday, 7 and 8 on Thursday, 9 and 0 on Friday.
Exempted from the modified UVVRP are public utility vehicles (including tricycles), transport network vehicle services (TNVS), motorcycles, garbage trucks, fuel trucks, motor vehicles carrying essential and/or perishable goods.
“Data shows that the travel speed along the northbound portion of Edsa is 9.66 kilometers per hour. Hence, we have to reinstate the number coding scheme during the afternoon rush hours to address the problem. We are trying to exhaust all options here,” Abalos stressed.
“The solution to this problem is efficient traffic management and mass transport system,” he added.
Meanwhile, Abalos said the light trucks ban along Edsa will be reimplemented, also with modification.
Based on the UVVRP motor vehicle plate endings, light trucks shall be prohibited to ply Edsa between Magallanes, Makati City and North Avenue, Quezon City, both northbound and southbound, from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays, except holidays.
“Light trucks” refer to motor vehicles, whether for commercial use or not, with a gross capacity weight of 4,500 kilograms or below and/or having six (6) or more tires, the payload area of which are either enclosed or open.
The total truck ban policy along Edsa between Magallanes, Makati City and North Avenue, Quezon City, both northbound and southbound, on the other hand, shall remain and be strictly enforced with the exception of garbage trucks, fuel trucks, and trucks carrying essential and/or perishable goods. On the other hand, the truck ban hours in the metropolis shall remain suspended until further notice.
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