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March 09, 2021 WITH the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the Department of Health (DOH) assured proper disposal of vials and syringes to be used in the vaccination process. Dr. Ruby Constantino, regional director of DOH-CAR, said a third party was tasked to conduct proper waste disposal procedures on used Covid-19 health equipment. "For this Covid-19 vaccine, we are going to practice the reverse logistics. All used vials and syringes used for the vaccination process that will be placed in safety collection boxes will be retrieved. Upon c...

SunStar Cordillera starts Covid vaccination CORDILLERA’S FIRST. Doctor Ricardo Runez, medical chief of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, receives the first shot of Sinovac which arrived in Baguio City on March 4. The 7,800 doses of vaccine will be distributed to all government hospitals in the Cordillera Administrative Region which seeks to inoculate 70 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19. (Photo by Jonathan Llanes) + March 05, 2021 MORE than 8,000 government and private hospitals in the Cordillera Administr...

Info drive on Covid vaccination set

Department of Health (DOH) (MANILA BULLETIN) In its disease surveillance report, DOH data showed that from Jan. 1-30, influenza-like cases dropped to 69 as compared to the 678 — a 130 percent decrease — recorded in the same period last year; typhoid and paratyphoid cases with 29 cases from 266; and dengue with 35 cases from 251.     Other illnesses, including viral hepatitis B and C, bacterial meningitis, non-neonatal tetanus, leptospirosis, and acute bloody diarrhea also logged decreases in cases during the first month of this year.   Only one measles case was recorded in January as c...

(MANILA BULLETIN) Of the new cases, five were contact traced, while five were traced through expanded testing. CHSO said the latest fatalities were both men, 85 and 75 years old, that added to the total of 94 fatalities in the city. There are still 535 actives cases, and 4,265 recoveries out of the 4,894 confirmed cases, as of January 28. CHSO Chief Dr. Rowena Galpo said they were standing by their report that there were only 18 cases on January 27 and swore by the integrity of their data on COVID-19 cases. “We maintain that our data are accurate since these come from the ground and are su...