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GENERALLY PEACEFUL. Voters cast their ballots at a poll precinct in Pilar, Abra on Monday (May 9, 2022). Pilar was placed under Commission on Elections control but officials said the province recorded generally peaceful elections on Monday. (Photo courtesy of Christian Allister Tubadeza/ PIA-Abra) BANGUED, Abra - With the exception of minor poll-related hitches, elections in the Cordillera Administrative Region generally went smoothly, a police official said on Tuesday. In a statement, Police Re...

36,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to CAR Philippine Information Agency 12 May 2021, 22:38 GMT+10 BAGUIO CITY, May 12 (PIA) - - The Regional Vaccination Operations Center (RVOC) reported that 36,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to the Cordillera Administrativbe Region(CAR) this week. These will be used for the second dose of individuals vaccinated with the first tranche of AstraZeneca allocated to the region and for the first dose of the remaining unvaccinated eligible...

Conner District Hospital Malasakit Center launched Philippine Information Agency 08 May 2021, 00:38 GMT+10 BAGUIO CITY, May 7 (PIA) -- The Conner District Hospital (CDH) in Conner, Apayao has now a Malasakit Center. Senator Lawrence "Bong" Go joined virtually Apayao officials led by Gov. Eleanor Bulut-Begtang represented by Executive Assistant Phillip Uba, Conner Mayor Martina Dangoy, Department of Health -Cordillera Regional Director Ruby Constantino, CDH Chief of Hospital Dr. Nelson Rigor in ...

107th Malasakit Center opens at LHRMH in Mt. Province Philippine Information Agency 08 May 2021, 04:38 GMT+10 MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - Poor and indigent patients in the province and other nearby areas will now be confident to seek hospitalization and treatment with the opening of a Malasakit Center at the Luis Hora Regional Memorial Hospital(LHRMH) in Abatan, Bauko on Friday(May 7). Senator Lawrence "Bong" Go, who authored the Malasakit Centers Act of 2019, led the launching ceremony of the LHRMH Ma...

  Consolidated daily statistics of the Department of Health (DOH)-CAR show that from April 23 to May 2, the region recorded 3,955 recoveries as against the 2,655 new cases in the same period.   Most recoveries were logged in this city with 1,159, followed by Benguet province with 1,003.   Abra, which has the least number of COVID-19 cases, logged zero recoveries during the period. However, the province continues to be under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) as a preventive measur...

March 09, 2021 WITH the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the Department of Health (DOH) assured proper disposal of vials and syringes to be used in the vaccination process. Dr. Ruby Constantino, regional director of DOH-CAR, said a third party was tasked to conduct proper waste disposal procedures on used Covid-19 health equipment. "For this Covid-19 vaccine, we are going to practice the reverse logistics. All used vials and syringes used ...

SunStar Cordillera starts Covid vaccination CORDILLERA’S FIRST. Doctor Ricardo Runez, medical chief of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, receives the first shot of Sinovac which arrived in Baguio City on March 4. The 7,800 doses of vaccine will be distributed to all government hospitals in the Cordillera Administrative Region which seeks to inoculate 70 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19. (Photo by Jonathan Llanes) + ...

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Department of Health (DOH) (MANILA BULLETIN) In its disease surveillance report, DOH data showed that from Jan. 1-30, influenza-like cases dropped to 69 as compared to the 678 — a 130 percent decrease — recorded in the same period last year; typhoid and paratyphoid cases with 29 cases from 266; and dengue with 35 cases from 251.     Other illnesses, including viral hepatitis B and C, bacterial meningitis, non-neonatal tetanus, leptospirosis, and acute bloody diarrhea also logged decreases...

(MANILA BULLETIN) Of the new cases, five were contact traced, while five were traced through expanded testing. CHSO said the latest fatalities were both men, 85 and 75 years old, that added to the total of 94 fatalities in the city. There are still 535 actives cases, and 4,265 recoveries out of the 4,894 confirmed cases, as of January 28. CHSO Chief Dr. Rowena Galpo said they were standing by their report that there were only 18 cases on January 27 and swore by the integrity of their data on C...