The B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 first found in India has reached the Philippines, the Department of Health announced Tuesday. Two travelers tested positive for B.1.617. The B.1.617 variant, which has been growing more common in India, is now officially a “variant of concern,” the World Health Organization said. “We are classifying this as a variant … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has created a confusion during the briefing in Geneva after making a big U-Turn when it reported that “transmission of the coronavirus by people who were not showing symptoms is very rare.” Would this mean that asymptomatic person cannot transmit the virus? This is according to Maria Van Kerkhove head … Read more
Some people still didn’t know or how this Pandemic started. The coronavirus disease started in Wuhan, China in 2019 it is one of the most infectious and dangerous diseased caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome, it is very similar to SARS (SARS-CoV-2), Some call it as SARS virus upgraded version.The respiratory system is the first … Read more
The official statement from the Malacañang Palace has released through Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque that our government is now foreigners to enter the country starting August 1. The Inter-Agency Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) is the government agency taking all responsibility to ensure the safety in terms of proper and immediate response concerning affairs on … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) of Switzerland restate on Friday that the new coronavirus was of natural origin after US President Donald Trump claimed he had seen evidence it originated in a Chinese lab. According to some scientists, they believe the killer virus jumped from animals to humans, emerging in China late last year, possibly … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging every country to continue the immunization programs. Also, warn that suspending vaccination could lead to other health crises amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A WHO official cited the regenerate of polio in the Philippines which was also hit by measles outbreak along with Malaysia and China, citing that infectious … Read more
The Philippines was doing the right thing when it comes to focusing its limited testing capabilities on people that are already showing symptoms of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as they are more contagious, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe, a WHO representative to the Philippines, said on the Malacañang … Read more
WHO (World Health Organization) addresses to the Youth of being overconfident and underestimating the lethality of COVID-19. According to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the youth is not invincible to corona virus infection so they must take in to consideration the proper mind set to get away from COVID-19. This is due to … Read more
The reason President Rodrigo Duterte imposed “enhanced community quarantine” in the entirety of Luzon is because of the increasing number of confirmed cases of coronavirus patients in the country based on the IATF recommendation. This was after the meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases as scenarios of coronavirus cases in … Read more