WASHINGTON, Sept 17 The US government will begin shipping 2.58 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Thursday through the Covax global distribution programme, a White House official said on Thursday. The latest shipments of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Germany’s.
State auditors have flagged the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) for failing to refund P19.5 million worth of reimbursement claims from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to eligible patients.
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Dying outside hospitals: Inquirer
The paper says that rich or poor are not spared the anguish of not finding a proper place for healing as hospitals reject desperate patients.
Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque s (right) remark that citizens should ask personal doctors for advice if they should go for alternatives to hospitalisation, essentially tells Filipinos that they are on their own, says the paper. PHOTO: AFP
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Quiapo church stands beside an almost empty road as the government implements a strict lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Manila, Philippines. Filipinos marked Jesus Christ s crucifixion Friday in one of the most solemn holidays in Asia s largest Catholic nation which combined with a weeklong coronavirus lockdown to empty Manila s streets of crowds and heavy traffic jams. Major highways and roads were eerily quiet on Good Friday and churches were deserted too after religious gatherings were prohibited in metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces. - AP MANILA, April 5 (AP): The Philippine government extended a lockdown by another week Monday after an alarming spike in coronavirus infections continued to surge and started to overwhelm many hospitals in the capital and outlying regions.