Senator Christopher “Bong” Go welcomed the recent approval of additional budget to cover the payment of the COVID-19 Special Risk Allowance to healthcare workers (HCWs) who have yet to receive the benefit.
ANKARA - Turkey on Tuesday, Jan. 18, reported 69,658 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 10,591,757, according to its health ministry.
WASHINGTON - Nearly 9.5 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and child COVID-19 cases have "spiked dramatically" across the country, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.
Thirteen regions across the country and 15 areas in the National Capital Region (NCR) have cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed.
The Department of Health (DOH) denounced a circulating fake advisory claiming that the Omicron variant can be transmitted in 20 seconds and that reinfection could take place after three weeks.
The DOH...
