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With 472 new cases, returning Filipinos who tested positive for COVID now more than 8,000

BENJAMIN CO MD
Posted at Aug 20 06:29 PM

Repatriates are only second to Metro Manila in contributing today’s 4,339 new cases. But Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal are still in the top five. BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

For the first time, a city in Calabarzon—Calamba—tallies triple digits in new COVID cases

BENJAMIN CO MD
Posted at Aug 19 07:56 PM

Calamba reported 101 yesterday, with Imus, Cabuyao, and Santa Rosa not far behind. Region IV provinces Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, and Batangas continue to be big contributors to our daily COVID reports. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

As Metro Manila shifts back to GCQ, here is Cebu Pacific’s updated flight schedule

ANCX
Posted at Aug 19 10:14 AM

A limited number of flights to-and-from Manila have resumed for the airline.  Read more »

New COVID cases coming out of Baguio have turned CAR into a surprising hotspot

BENJAMIN CO MD
Posted at Aug 18 08:32 PM

The summer capital had the bulk of the Cordillera Administrative Region’s COVID reports yesterday, placing it in the regional top five. Today’s almost 5,000 new cases, on the other hand, still centered around NCR, Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal. BY BENJAMIN CO MD  Read more »

This Swiss face mask claims it can neutralize and kill viruses that pass through its material

ANCX
Updated as of Aug 18 04:14 PM

Fine Guard masks, which is developed using Swiss textile technology, has just been made available in the country. Read more »

Metro Manila crosses the 90,000 mark in total COVID cases with one day left in MECQ

BENJAMIN CO MD
Posted at Aug 17 06:54 PM

NCR alone continues to contribute to 57.9 percent of the total cases in the country with 1,918 confirmed cases reported today. Fellow MECQ-sanctioned areas Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, and Bulacan also brought in the numbers. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

While active COVID cases went down in the PH, severe and critically-ill cases increased significantly

BENJAMIN CO MD
Updated as of Aug 17 08:34 AM

Yesterday, it was at 1.5 percent of the total cases, but is now at 2.6 percent, or around 1,200 individuals. The past week also saw the country averaging around 4,500 cases. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

Australia hits a three-week low in new COVID-19 cases

BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN
Posted at Aug 16 05:59 PM

Plus, China’s air pollutants decrease over the lockdown, India prepares its own vaccine for mass production, and Singapore posts its lowest tally in four months.  Read more »

159 new deaths bring the COVID fatality rate of the Philippines even higher

BENJAMIN CO MD
Updated as of Aug 16 07:38 AM

The bulk of these new deaths are from Region VII, NCR, and Calabarzon. Our active COVID cases—now more than 80,000—also keep on going up, while our recovery rate continues to go down. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

Bulacan is one of the biggest contributors to PH’s 6,216 new COVID cases

BENJAMIN CO MD
Posted at Aug 14 06:43 PM

It joins NCR and Calabarzon provinces Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal as having the most COVID cases tallied today. With more than 6,000 reported again, are we ready for MECQ to end? BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

9 days into MECQ, PH makes it to the global top 10 single day COVID tallies again

BENJAMIN CO MD
Updated as of Aug 13 11:36 PM

With big numbers dominating our daily COVID reports, the country once again finds itself among the most number of single day case counts in the world. BY BENJAMIN CO M.D. Read more »

Ex-Health Secretary on Russian vaccine trials in the PH: ‘Let’s temper our desperation with reality’

JACS T. SAMPAYAN
Updated as of Aug 14 12:10 AM

Health experts including Former DoH secretary Esperanza Cabral and our own COVID expert Dr. Benjamin Co share their thoughts on the planned participation of Filipinos in the Russian vaccine trials. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

With more than 18,000 cases, Calabarzon is now the region with second highest COVID count

BENJAMIN CO MD
Updated as of Aug 13 08:27 AM

It has overtaken Region VII as the second highest contributor to the total COVID cases of the Philippines, which now stands at more than 140,000. NCR still rules the roost with lose to 80,000 cases. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

This nurse died of COVID without seeing her hazard pay, which turned out to be P150 a day

JACS T. SAMPAYAN
Posted at Aug 12 06:45 PM

‘She was treated below what she deserves,’ Joie Cruz posted on Facebook about her mother who recently passed away. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

With 398 new COVID cases, Cavite is second only to NCR in PH’s single day tally

BENJAMIN CO MD
Updated as of Aug 11 08:49 PM

Other provinces that produced the most number of new cases today are Laguna, Iloilo, and Cebu. We are now at 139,538, and we will probably breach 140,000 by tomorrow. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

With new COVID cases far outnumbering recoveries, the PH recovery rate dips below 50%

ANCX
Posted at Aug 10 10:38 PM

Another record breaking single day tally for the country coincides with the globe going past the 20 million mark. Meanwhile, our active cases is at nearly 67,000, which is also almost half of our total. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

Ontario’s new COVID case reports keep going down day-by-day

ANCX
Posted at Aug 09 09:24 PM

Plus, Nintendo sees a surge in profit, China pushes through with a gaming event, and San Francisco still has the virus in check. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

The Philippines has been averaging more than 4,000 COVID cases and more than 20 deaths a day.

ANCX
Updated as of Aug 10 07:15 AM

In the past week alone, 28,732 new confirmed cases and 170 new deaths were reported. With just over a week until the lifting of MECQ, the race to control the numbers is even more pressing. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »

With 125 new cases, Cebu makes a comeback in the top five provinces with the highest single-day tally

ANCX
Posted at Aug 08 08:24 PM

NCR is still producing the bulk of daily cases while numbers from Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal aren’t letting up. Most of the cases were from the end of July, but more than a thousand are backlogs. BY BENJAMIN CO MD  Read more »

The bulk of PH’s 122,754 cases are from NCR, Calabarzon, Central Luzon, and Western Visayas

ANCX
Updated as of Aug 08 01:07 AM

NCR alone has almost 70,000 cases. Meanwhile, there are now 5,999 cases with no known region, making up five percent of the total cases reported. BY BENJAMIN CO MD Read more »