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COVID-19 claims over 6 million lives worldwide: tally

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 09 11:40 AM

Over six million people have died worldwide from Covid-19 since the pandemic began, according to a tally from official sources compiled by Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. Read more »

Philippines detects 633 more Delta cases

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 18 05:10 PM

The Philippines has detected 633 new cases of Delta variant, raising its total to 4,431, the Department of Health said Monday. Read more »

COVID-19: What are we ignoring?

Dean Dela Paz
Posted at Sep 28 11:58 PM

The reasons are legion. From deploying the wrong officials to ineffective contact-tracing, to employing a singular measure for a multi-dimensional mutating problem, to ignoring the pandemic’s latent demands and deliberately diverting billions to enrich peddlers. Read more »

New variants cause more virus in the air, shows study

Nancy Lapid, Reuters
Posted at Sep 23 07:13 AM

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review. Read more »

Scientists monitoring new coronavirus variants

Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 09 11:49 AM

Scientists remain focused on Delta, now the dominant variant around the world, but are tracking others to see what may one day take its place. Read more »

PH detects 516 more Delta variant cases

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 29 03:25 PM

The Philippines has detected 516 more Delta variant cases, bringing its total to 1,789, the Department of Health said Sunday. Read more »

COVID-19 Delta variant doubles hospital risk— study

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 08:22 AM

The Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 doubles the risk of hospitalization compared to the Alpha variant that it has supplanted as the dominant strain worldwide, researchers reported Saturday in The Lancet. Read more »

Anu-anong COVID-19 variant na ang naitala sa Pilipinas?

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 16 03:09 PM

Batay sa pananaliksik ng Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ang mga variant ay mas mabilis kumalat ngunit may iba’t iba itong dalang epekto sa kalusugan. Read more »

Di dapat balewalain ang banta ng Delta variant: DOH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 10 07:20 PM

Kahit 5 porsiyento lang ng nasuring samples ang nakitaan ng Delta variant, hindi pa rin ito dapat ipagwalang bahala. Read more »

COVID-19 risk classification ng Pilipinas 'moderate' na

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 29 06:44 PM

Kasabay ito ng pagtaas ng mga kaso ng COVID-19 sa bansa at banta ng mas nakakahawang Delta variant.  Read more »

Ilocos Sur hospitals feeling strain in bed capacities amid COVID

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 24 03:46 PM

Governor Ryan Luis Singson said the province has about 977 active cases, and they have already shut down some of its district hospitals for new COVID-19 patients.  Read more »

90-year-old infected with 'two virus variants at once'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 11 07:34 AM

A 90-year-old woman who died after falling ill with COVID-19 was infected with both the Alpha and Beta variants of the coronavirus at the same time, researchers in Belgium said Sunday, adding that the rare phenomenon may be underestimated.   Read more »

Philippines has 4 new cases of COVID-19 Delta variant, 35 carriers of other strains

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 21 07:07 PM

(UPDATE) Four Filipinos have tested positive for the COVID-19 Delta variant, bringing the total number of Filipinos infected with it to 17, the government said Monday.  Read more »