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March 22 – The country logged a new daily high record of 8,019 new COVID-19 cases, surpassing the tally last 2 days ago, bringing the total number of cases to 671,792. This number includes 80,970 or 12.1% active patients; 103 new recoveries with total at 577,850; and 4 fatalities with total death toll at 12,972.
The Philippine government has repatriated its citizens from various COVID-19 affected countries and international conveyances. By August 24, 2021, more than 1.38 million overseas Filipinos have been evacuated since its first repatriation in the first quarter of 2020. [1] According to the DFA, COVID-19 pandemic–related repatriations have ...
The COVID-19 vaccination program in the Philippines was a mass immunization campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the pandemic in the country. The vaccination program was initiated by the Duterte administration on March 1, 2021, a ...
In its first weekly bulletin, the DOH reported 6,297 new COVID-19 cases from March 1–7, 2022, with a daily average of 899. Meanwhile, DOH also logged 615 deaths, raising the death toll to 57,066. [37] March 8 - The country reported the lowest daily cases this year with 442 new cases, pushing the total to 3,668,710 cases.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). As of May 3, 2024, there have been 4,140,383 reported cases, and 66,864 reported deaths, the fifth highest in Southeast Asia, behind Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
The dish made news nationally in March 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, after a video surfaced on social media showing a delivery rider affiliated with GrabFood being denied access in Muzon, San Jose del Monte. He was to deliver lugaw to a customer in the barangay.
In April 2021, videos in YouTube and Facebook purported that Ivermectin is already fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a cure for COVID-19. The drug was only granted compassionate use for such purpose in one hospital. Ivermectin in the Philippines is only authorized to be used in animals for treatment of heartworm disease ...
Initially, suspected COVID-19 cases in Central Luzon are tested at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Lung Center of the Philippines in Metro Manila. The Jose B. Lingad Regional Memorial Hospital in Pampanga was the first facility being prepared as a possible COVID-19 testing center for the region.