Former health adviser Dr. Tony Leachon asked the national government to consider implementing a total travel ban after the Philippines detected its first two cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. …
The Philippines has reported its first cases of Omicron variant, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. DOH said one of the cases is a returning overseas Filipino who arrived …
No Omicron variant of COVID-19 has yet been detected in the Philippines, based on the latest genome sequencing data released by the Department of Health (DOH). But of the 629 …
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday emphasized the process of genome sequencing to determine if the new COVID-19 variant of concern has entered the Philippines. According to WHO country …
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said entry of the new Omicron variant to the Philippines is “not a matter of if, but a matter of when.” “Talagang ‘yan po papasok …
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced that it will implement the recent directive from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) banning travelers coming from …