Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte- Carpio has assigned the city’s LGBT sector to manage the city’s next round of rice distribution after receiving complaints from residents that barangay officials have failed to provide them with rice.
The City Government of Davao is considering using the RT-PCR test kits in their “intensified case findings” of Covid-19 cases in certain areas in Davao City.
The Southern Philippines Medical Center said they would be making a sustainable plan for their medical personnel in the frontline of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as new health and lodging concerns came up.
The Department of Education has announced that the incoming school year 2020-2021 will open on August 24 amidst issues of safety for students in the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The number of Covid-19 cases in the Philippines has breach 10,000 on Wednesday, but health officials said that the epidemic curve in the country has started to “flatten”.
The Southern Philippines Medical Center has announced on Tuesday that they may start enrolling their Covid-19 patients for a trial of therapies to be undertaken by the World Health Organization Solidarity next week.
After more than a week of putting Bukidnon under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Gov. Jose Maria Zubiri Jr. reverted the province’s status to general community quarantine (GCQ) effective Monday (April 27).
The Davao City government eyes three private hospitals as reserved facilities in case there is a spike in the number of patients positive of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Despite the effort to establish COVID-19 testing laboratories and the conduct of random testing in the city, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the local government cannot do the mass testing yet.
The Department of Health Region XI (DOH-XI) and the local government has been conducting community case finding through random testing to trace suspected patients of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the city.