SINGAPORE-The special annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will only go ahead in May if it can be conducted in a secure manner, Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry said on Friday. For that to occur, vaccines, monitoring, and touch tracing will come into play. “Our own working assumption with the World Economic Forum in this: If we are …

The Province of Isabela, which was recently hit by historic floods in the midst of the Ulysses typhoon strike, does not have adequate funds to screen people in coronavirus shelters. Whatever capital the province does have, It will be diverted into improving its relief facilities and evacuation centers. The governor shared that now that there is no further rain, they …

METRO MANILA – The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) assured today that they will be settling the debt to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Monday after receiving a legal opinion from the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the testing agreement between the agency and the humanitarian organization. According to statement released by Philhealth, they will release the payment on …

MANILA – The Manila City government on Wednesday officially opened its own drive-thru coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) testing center to further booth their mass testing efforts. For Twitter users who missed it: The Manila City government has already started providing mass testing in the nation’s capital. #ManilaMassTesting #AlertoManileno #COVID19PH pic.twitter.com/tXkC7MsiGc — Manila Public Information Office (@ManilaPIO) July 17, 2020 According to …

MANILA – Malacañang is leaving the discretion to the private sector to  to conduct the testing for their employees due to the government’s lack of testing capacity. “As much as possible, we are raising our testing capacity that’s why we’re aiming that we reach 30,000 (a day), but in terms of mass testing like what is being done by Wuhan …

The government’s COVID-19 center has insisted the lower number of new COVID-19 cases announced each day is not due to an alleged lesser number of tests, while health authorities are working to increase test numbers according to the situation. The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA) Spokesman Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, has stressed that the drop in the daily number of …