MANILA, Feb 5 (Mabuhay) — The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has expanded the list of foreigners who can enter the Philippines amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Foreigners who have visas issued as...

MANILA, Feb 4 (Mabuhay) — The accuracy of the use of saliva as specimen for RT-PCR test for COVID-19 will still be reviewed by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the Department of Health said Wednesday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the...

MANILA, Jan 30 (Mabuhay) — A target for the Philippines to shift to the least stringent quarantine level in the first quarter of the year remains “doable,” the trade department said on Friday despite local cases of the new, more contagious COVID-19 variant. The...

MANILA, Jan 29 (Mabuhay)  -– Metro Manila and Davao City will remain under general community quarantine (GCQ) until the end of February, Malacañang announced on Friday. “President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, retained the general community quarantine...

MANILA, Jan 29 (Mabuhay) — Foreigners allowed entry in the Philippines need to comply with some guidelines beginning February 1, Malacañang said Friday. In a statement, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said arriving foreigners should have valid and existing visas at...

MANILA, Jan 26 (Mabuhay) –The cheaper and non-invasive saliva COVID-19 test can be used by those taking a trip abroad, those taking the Bar exams and even students before they return to classrooms, the Philippine Red Cross said Tuesday. The non-government organization on...

MANILA, Jan 25 (Mabuhay) — The Department of Health has approved the use of saliva as an alternative specimen in COVID-19 tests in Philippine Red Cross laboratories, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said. In a public briefing, Vergeire said the DOH allowed the...

MANILA, Jan 23 (Mabuhay) — Philippine authorities  has detected the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus in 16 more cases in the country. There are now 17 seventeen cases of COVID-19 who have the UK variant in the Philippines after the first who arrived from the United...

MANILA, Jan 22 (Mabuhay) — The government has eased age restrictions in areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), with people aged 10 years to 65 now allowed to go out, Malacañang announced Friday. “Any person below ten (10) years old and those who are...

MANILA, Jan 22 (Mabuhay) — Despite the travel restrictions due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, foreigners with valid visas can enter the Philippines but are subject to strict health and quarantine protocols, Malacañang said on Friday. This, after the...