Measles, polio cases drop during pandemic: DOH
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (Screengrab) MANILA - A health official on Tuesday said cases of measles, polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases have gone down during the pandemic probably due to observation of minimum public health standards nationwide. "Kung ikukumpara from the previous years bago mag-pandemiya, malaki ang binaba ng counts ng mga sakit na ito. Ang tigdas, makikita natin (If we compare the previous years, pre-pandemic, the counts of these diseases decreased largely) from the start of the year, we only have a cumulative total of 26 measles cases from Ja...