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The Department of the Interior and Local Government urged local government units Friday to reinforce measures against COVID-19 in an effort to push back against the Health Department’s projected increase in cases until the end of the year.

A panel of medical experts came up with recommendations the government can adopt to help the country transition to normalcy. Former presidential adviser Joey Concepcion and the Advisory Council of Experts (ACE) urged the government to prepare a "pandemic exit" strategy, prompting them to craf

The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. members are ready to admit COVID-19 patients whose numbers are expected to increase later this month.

I hope I do not speak too soon when I say that the Philippines has been spared from the surge that has been (and is still being experienced) by our neighbors in Asia.

Habitat 7 Rivers’ 29th annual Spring Walk to Build will take place Sunday, May 15 at 1 p.m. The organization’s largest fundraiser will begin at First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, 28 High St. The anticipated 100 walkers will follow the two-...

Habitat 7 Rivers’ 29th annual Spring Walk to Build will take place Sunday, May 15 at 1 p.m. The organization’s largest fundraiser will begin at First Congregational Church of Wiscasset, 28 High St. The anticipated 100 walkers will follow the two-...

A clinical trial is seeking to test Molnupiravir's potential as post-exposure treatment in preventing coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease expert said Saturday, Feb. 5.

Molnupiravir (Antara/Merck & Co Inc/HO via Reuters/as/aa) MANILA - Clinical trials are ongoing on the possible use of oral pill molnupiravir as prophylaxis to prevent an exposed person from contracting the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Dr. Benjamin Co, the clinical investigator of the MOVe-Ahead clinical trial at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center (AHMC), said the AHMC in Alabang, Muntinlupa and Quirino Memorial Medical Center in Project 4, Quezon City have been conducting the stud...

Proper COVID-19 testing and home management once positive can help stop the virus from spreading further, according to an infectious diseases expert.

Going into the week of January 10, 2022, we take stock of how Omicron is changing the pandemic landscape and how we should respond