Read more about the article Davao Region records 59 COVID-19 cases, including eight health workers
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Davao Region records 59 COVID-19 cases, including eight health workers

The Department of Health (DOH) Region 11 confirmed Wednesday that cases of COVID-19 transmission have risen to 59 in this region, including eight health workers.

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Read more about the article Health advocates want test centers in every region vs COVID-19
The construction of a kidney center in Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) is expected to be done within this year or in 2020. The facility will have more equipments to cater more kidney patients. (Photo from SPMC Facebook page)

Health advocates want test centers in every region vs COVID-19

An alliance of doctors and health workers urges the Department of Health (DOH) to set up a minimum of one testing center per region to speed up the testing for COVID-19.

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Read more about the article JOINT STATEMENT: On requiring journalists to get PCOO accreditation
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JOINT STATEMENT: On requiring journalists to get PCOO accreditation

WE, MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, journalists, press freedom advocates and academics, raise our collective voice and declare our opposition to government requiring journalists to secure accreditation from the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) to be exempted from the enhanced community quarantine. While we recognize the gravity of the situation, we assert that this imposition is unnecessary, unreasonable and unconstitutional.

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Read more about the article Gov’t officials, DOH criticized for COVID-19 test on ‘VIPs’
Health Secretary Francisco Duque in a press briefing. (Photo from Philippine News Agency/Jess M. Escaros)

Gov’t officials, DOH criticized for COVID-19 test on ‘VIPs’

Various groups and netizens expressed their disappointment and outrage online, highlighted the calls #NotoVIPTesting and #MassTestingNowPH over the social media, after reports that at least two dozen government officials and their families availed of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test despite being asymptomatic.

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