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CoVac Council tackles new NIATF guidelines, vaccination plans

SunStar + January 26, 2021 ADJUSTMENTS to the newly amended national guidelines on community quarantine and preparations for the mass vaccination program were discussed during the 3rd virtual meeting of the Bacolod City Covid-19 Vaccination (CoVac) Council Sunday, January 24, 2021. Presided by Mayor Evelio Leonardia, the virtual dialogue heavily touched on the latest amendments to the National Inter-Agency Task Force’s (NIATF) Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines. Bacolod City has been placed under the Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) for several months now. MGCQ is considered the lowest community quarantine status as per NIATF guidelines. Section 5 (3) of the amended Omnibus Guidelines provides that for areas placed under MGCQ, “[a]ny person below ten (10) years old, those who are over sixty-five (65) years of age and above, those with immunodeficiency, comorbidity, or other health risks, and pregnant

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No proof yet of community transmission of UK COVID variant here

Published January 23, 2021, 4:34 PM It is too early to say if there is already a community transmission of the more transmissible variant of the COVID-19 virus in the country, health authorities said Saturday. This was emphasized by Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) Director Dr. Celia Carlos following the detection of 16 more cases of the B.1.1.7 or the United Kingdom variant of the novel coronavirus in the Philippines. “Considering that investigation is ongoing, it may be premature for us now to determine whether there is ongoing community transmission. We need to wait for the results of the investigation,” said Carlos during a press briefing hosted by the Department of Health (DoH).

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NTF calls on HCWs to support COVID-19 vaccination plan

CALAMBA CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) - Doctors and allied health professionals will play an important role in increasing the Filipino people’s confidence for the national vaccination plan when it rolls out this year. National COVID-19 Action Plan chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, Jr. underscored the role of the medical community in inoculating around 70 million Filipinos. During the recent Town Hall on the COVID-19 vaccination plan led by the Department of Health and the Philippine Medical Association, Galvez assured that medical frontliners will be prioritized in the vaccination program. “The President emphasized his endearment to medical workers which is why we are prioritizing them to the vaccination program,” Galvez said.

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PH can see 15-fold increase in infections if new COVID-19 variant takes over – expert

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 6) Experts heaved a sigh of relief following the announcement that the more contagious coronavirus variant has not been detected in the Philippines, warning it could result in a 15-fold increase in infections in just a month if it becomes the dominant variant in the country. Dr. John Wong, founder of the health research institution Epimetrics, who is now part of the technical working group studying the recent mutations, explained on Wednesday just how contagious the variant discovered in the United Kingdom is. Normally, at our current Ro of 1.1, 20,000 cases at the beginning of the month will be about 32,000 cases by the end of the month, Wong said in an online forum along with other experts led by Department of Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire.

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The Lahbati-Gutierrez family join Covid defense campaign – The Manila Times

The Lahbati-Gutierrez family join Covid defense campaign – The Manila Times
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