Credit to Author: Dempsey Reyes| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:24:28 +0000
THE government is eyeing the drug rehabilitation facility of Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija and Caballo Island as quarantine areas for Filipinos who will be coming home from Wuhan and other areas in China affected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday. “They are looking at both areas. No decision […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:00:44 +0000
THE first Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) patient, a 38-year-old Chinese woman confined at the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila, tested positive for the disease, the Department of Health said on Friday. The DoH also said that two more foreigners have become patients under investigation (PUI) — an American and a Chinese. The country is observing 31 […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:45:29 +0000
HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd expressed confidence that the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV) can be beaten if an individual is healthy enough. Speaking during the Question Hour at the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Duque said those who were healthy could withstand the deadly virus that has killed over 100 people in China where it […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Franz Lewin Embudo| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:48:05 +0000
THE Department of Health (DoH) disclosed that a Chinese being investigated on suspicion of having contracted the 2019 novel Coronavirus (nCoV) died on Wednesday morning but pneumonia was listed as the cause of his death at the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila. “This morning we have a person under investigation, hindi pa confirmed for NCoV, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: John Eric Mendoza| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:43:31 +0000
The number of suspected 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases in the Philippines continues to rise, the Department of Health admitted on Tuesday as it announced that 24 suspected carriers of the virus are being monitored. This was more than double the 11 suspected nCoV cases announced on Monday. Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd gave assurances that […]
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