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LUCENA CITY, Quezon - A local official here has moved to beef up the local police force to intensify the provision of security for the city's residences. Councilor Americo Lacerna filed a resolution during the city council's regular session on Monday, requesting an additional 50 personnel for the Lucena City Police Station (LCPS). In an interview after the session, Lacerna said his request is a result of their quarterly Peace and Order Council meeting last December. He said he asked co-c...

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(PNA photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in Metro Manila have increased but it is still under low risk case classification and will remain at Alert Level 1. In a virtual press briefing Wednesday, Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said an area will be escalated to Alert Level 2 once its infection risk reaches "moderate" level with an average daily attack rate (ADAR) of six cases per day per 100,000 population or its tota...

(File photo) MANILA - Over 425,000 individuals have received their second booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, a health official said Friday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said almost 14.5 million individuals have an up-to-date vaccination or have received their first booster shot while 69.7 million are fully vaccinated as of June 9. "We have already almost 9.4 million fully inoculated adolescents along with more than three million children fully vaccinated," she said i...

(PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The country is now classified high risk for Covid-19 following the increase in cases toward the end of 2021, a health official said Monday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the epidemic curve shows the current average daily cases have increased significantly by 570 percent this week - December 27, 2021 to January 2, 2022 - which is seven times higher than in previous weeks. "Nationally we are now at high-risk case classification from low-...

GENEVA - The new omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 57 countries so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. "Even if the severity is equal or potentially even lower than for delta variant, it is expected that hospitalizations will increase if more people become infected and that there will be a time lag between an increase in the incidence of cases and an increase in the incidence of deaths," the WHO said in its weekly epidemiological report. Th...

VAX TO THE MAX.Adults and teenagers queue up for Covid-19 vaccination at the multipurpose area of Barangay Kaligayahan in Novaliches, Quezon City on the last day of the "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" vaccination drive on Wednesday (Dec. 1, 2021). The government targets to administer 9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses during the three-day vaccination drive that began on November 29.(PNA photo by Oliver Marquez) MANILA - The number of new Covid-19 cases nationwide has declined by 42 percent in the...

(PNA file photo) MANILA-The Philippines is using metrics based on World Health Organization (WHO) standards to help in its border control, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Saturday. The assurance was made amid the coronavirus surge in Europe, which is now back at the Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic epicenter. Vergeire said the system Manila is using is also derived from the United States Centers for Disease Control, which monitors the incidence rate of Covid-19 in c...

MANILA - The Covid-19 situation in the National Capital Region (NCR) continues to improve based on the latest data of the OCTA Research Group. In a tweet on Monday, OCTA Research Group's Guido David said NCR's seven-day average is 1,448 with a positivity rate of 9 percent, down by 1 percent from the previous data. "The last time the positivity rate was at 9 percent was from July 23 to July 29," David tweeted. On Sunday, the NCR logged the lowest number of new cases since July 2...

MANILA - The OCTA Research Group on Sunday said the number of daily Covid-19 cases may drop to 5,000 to 6,000 by the end of October. In a television interview, OCTA fellow Guido David also said that within the week, daily new cases may reach 10,000 because of the backlog. "Temporary lang 'yan, pero generally 'yung trend natin pababa na (That's temporary, but generally our case trend is declining," he said. David noted that reproduction number nationwide is 0.64 and the seve...