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File photo February 07, 2021 TALISAY City Mayor Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas urged the public not to panic over news that a 54-year-old returning overseas Filipino (ROF) from Dubai, who is a resident of Talisay City, tested positive for the UK variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
The ROF was immediately monitored by health officials upon his arrival in Cebu and was only released from the hospital in Cebu City when he was already clinically recovered.
“Everyone is doing their best to ensure that we all remain safe,” Gullas said in a statement issued Friday night, Feb. 5, 2021.
“Our local health officials are also vigilant in ensuring that the new UK variant does not affect us,” he said.
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+ February 01, 2021 WITH the low infection rate among returning residents of Cagayan de Oro, the City has allowed newly arrived individuals to undergo quarantine in their homes rather than in isolation units starting February 1.
However, Acting City Health Officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said that while the new arrivals team will not be physically there, they will still continue monitoring the returning residents with a new system. Naay team from the Department of Health nga naka-base sa airport and pier. Part na na sila sa Bureau of Quarantine staff, Nery said. Tanan nga mga pasengers nga nagsulod, naa gihapon ang ilang declaration, kung gikan sa airport, naa gihapon ang mga names sa manifesto, she added.
February 1, 2021
Philippine Airlines issued its new COVID-19 testing and quarantine protocols for arriving passengers starting today, February 1.
In line with the latest resolution of the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging and Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), passengers arriving in the Philippines starting Feb.1, 2021 shall undergo RT-PCR testing on their 6th day of quarantine at a facility/hotel accredited by tourism and health agencies of the government.
Allowed for travel to the Philippines, subject to the presentation of required travel documents are: Filipino citizens, foreign nationals with long-term visas, diplomats and dignitaries, and those with medical emergency cases, including medical escorts.
Philippine Airlines is reminding arriving passengers to observe the following revised arrival and quarantine protocols:
Why we need to trust science
Written by Jason Tan Liwag
Updated Jan 29, 2021 4:34:28 PM
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Editor’s Note: Jason Tan Liwag is an early-career scientist taking his MS in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also an actor, a writer, and the founder of Queer Scientists PH. The opinions expressed in this story are the author’s.
Dagupan City (CNN Philippines Life, January 29) When the lockdown began, medical frontline workers were left in limbo without public transportation. Photos and stories of frontliners from different parts of the country walking to work, some still in their PPEs, quickly populated local news sites and social media. Better mobility was crucial to the pandemic response and, as they discovered a few months later, the key to it was simple: broadening the existing mobility movements and coalitions to involve the doctors and medical frontliners in the lobbying.
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