Philippines – The Philippines has the least number of passings from COVID-19 contrasted with eight other for the most part affluent nations that have the largest number of cases, This is what Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said yesterday. Refering to the “Our World In Data” report, Duque noticed the Philippines positioned most minimal for mortality identified with COVID-19 contrasted …

The Food and Drug Administration should investigate the medicines that did not have specialists’ data given to beneficiaries of the counter parasitic medication ivermectin around there. At the supposed storeroom coordinated by two legislators regardless of admonitions from clinical specialists, specialists gave recipients solutions for ivermectin. Yet, the solutions, composed on pieces of paper, didn’t contain their names, permit numbers …

Given all the cash acquired just to get them, a congressperson on Thursday asked the public authority: Where is the nation’s inventory of the critically required COVID-19 immunizations? Sen. Panfilo Lacson said this on his social media account as he noticed that the nation has an asset of P126.75 billion for the acquisition of immunizations — everything except P10 billion …

The anticipated arrival of Sinovac antibodies from China on the 23rd of February is as yet open to question as the organization still can’t seem to submit four expected reports to the Food and Drug Administration. In view of this, FDA chief general Eric Domingo said the organization couldn’t yet settle on the use of Sinovac for crisis use approval …

The intense work for coronavirus shots continues as the country’s vaccine czar maintained that amid some delays in talks with manufacturers the government is still on track with its vaccine’s search. Amid updates that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III dropped the ball in negotiations with US drugmaker Pfizer by failing to sign a single text here’s Carlito Galvez Jr., who …

When the travel ban on medical staff is lifted in January, the Philippines is supposed to still have enough health professionals to battle COVID-19. This is the reason why Harry Roque said President Duterte had sought the assurance of the Department of Health (DOH) that before accepting the proposal to lift the ban on deployment, the country would have enough …

METRO MANILA – In a meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte and other Cabinet members, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said that the proposal to reduced the distance between commuters in public utility vehicles (PUVs) ‘dangerous’ and should be thoroughly studied. Año said that face shields and face mask can only mitigate the spread of the virus but distance will still be …

METRO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte continues to trust Health Secretary Francisco Duque III espite the new corruption allegations against him in connection with Philhealth, says presidential spokesman Harry Roque on Wednesday. Roque said that the Health Secretary will continue to work as the head of the Department of Health and chairman of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious …

Former advisor to the national task force against COVID-19 Tony Leachon on Friday said that as part of its fight against the novel coronavirus disease, the government is looking to provide masks to the poor Filipinos. He stated that he had made the suggestion to President Rodrigo Duterte himself last Wednesday who was open to the proposal. He added that …

MANILA – President Duterte is confident that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III will be able to answer to all allegations against him by the office of the ombudsman over “lapses” in the health department’s COVID-19 response. Ombudsman Samuel Martires said on Wednesday that he will be forming additional teams to investigate alleged anomalies committed by DOH health officials including Duque …