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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a serious public health challenge the world over, has led to significant health concerns in Sierra Leone. In the present study, epidemic indices, such as the number of cases, positivity rate, reproduction rate (R0), case fatality rate (CFR), age, and sex, were used to characterize the epidemiological trends of COVID-19. As of October 31, 2021, a total of 6,398 cases and 121 related deaths had been confirmed. The total number of COVID-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests conducted to October 31, 2021, was 249,534, and the average...

(File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Monday said a coronavirus alert level increase will worsen the food situation for around 640,000 households in the National Capital Region (NCR) and could bring them below the hunger line. Albay Rep. Joey Salceda made the statement after the Department of Health announced on Monday that the NCR could once again be placed under tighter restrictions of Alert Level 2 if Covid-19 cases continue to increase. Salceda also noted that every week of lockdown in NCR costs workers around PHP1.6 billion in salaries. "If they have no plan for how to replace the nutr...

He said to prevent the high mortality rate recorded from the disease last year, his ministry has set up a response to reduce the number of deaths from the disease in 2022.

File photo MANILA - The country's unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent in October from 8.9 percent in September as restrictions eased in most areas across the country, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday. The unemployment rate for October is the third-lowest for this year, only behind July data at 6.9 percent and March data at 7.1 percent. In a joint statement, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, and Budget and Management officer-in-charge Tina Rose Marie Canda said the unemployment numbers proved that the cou...

The NCDC said rain in areas with cases of open defecation has made them to be more at risk of contracting cholera.