A health worker performs a swab test on a woman at a Covid-19 testing site to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Quezon city, Philippines on Thursday, April 29,2021. in Quezon city, Philippines. The Philippines is extending an already monthlong lockdown by two weeks as the country s worst coronavirus infection spike starts to ease but remains alarming. - AP
MANILA, April 30 (The Philippines Daily INquirer/ANN): The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported 8,748 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 1,037,460.
And the Philippines government on Friday has admitted that the government must do more to alleviate hunger caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,
The Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) is eyeing to develop the "third variant" of its enhanced nutribun.
Enhanced Nutribun Carrot Variant (Photo from the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute)
DOST-FNRI
(JANSEN ROMERO/FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN)
DOST, in a statement issued Tuesday, April 27, confirmed this after the information was revealed during Online Technology Forum for Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) by DOST-FNRI.
Lea B. Landicho, a science research analyst at DOST-FNRI, explained that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life – which begins in pregnancy – is “critical because the damage is irreversible if the child does not get proper nutrition during this period.”
DOST-FNRI noted that the trends in the prevalence of malnutrition among children less than two years old or 0-23 months in the Philippines show a decline in four nutrition parameters between 2015 to 2019: underweight (from 17.2 to 13.9); stunting (25.7 to 21.9); wasting (10.2 to 7.0); and overweight (4.2 to 2.6). Despite the decline, however, underweight and stunting are still prevalent in most parts of Mindanao.
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(JANSEN ROMERO/FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN)
DOST, in a statement issued Tuesday, April 27, confirmed this after the information was revealed during Online Technology Forum for Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) by DOST-FNRI.
Lea B. Landicho, a science research analyst at DOST-FNRI, explained that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life – which begins in pregnancy – is “critical because the damage is irreversible if the child does not get proper nutrition during this period.”
DOST-FNRI noted that the trends in the prevalence of malnutrition among children less than two years old or 0-23 months in the Philippines show a decline in four nutrition parameters between 2015 to 2019: underweight (from 17.2 to 13.9); stunting (25.7 to 21.9); wasting (10.2 to 7.0); and overweight (4.2 to 2.6). Despite the decline, however, underweight and stunting are still prevalent in most parts of Mindanao.