Gaea Katreena Cabico (Philstar.com) – February 15, 2021 – 4:05pm
MANILA, Philippines — The nation now has greater than 550,000 circumstances of COVID-19 after well being authorities reported 1,685 new infections Monday.
To this point, 550,860 people have had COVID-19 within the Philippines. Of those, 5% or 27,588 are energetic circumstances.
Recoveries reached 511,755 after 14 extra individuals recuperated from the extreme respiratory sickness.
However deaths because of COVID-19 elevated to 11,517, up by two from the earlier rely.
What’s new immediately?
- The reopening of movie theaters has been moved to March 1 on the earliest and will probably be topic to the rules of native governments. This got here after mayors of Metro Manila, which is underneath common neighborhood quarantine, opposed the pandemic activity drive’s determination to permit the reopening of cinemas.
- President Rodrigo Duterte is now keen to be inoculated towards COVID-19 in public, Malacañang mentioned.
- One of the newly-reported cases of the B.1.1.7. variant is linked to the cluster of COVID-19 infections reported within the Metro Rail Transit 3 depot final month. DOH recognized the case as a 46-year-old feminine resident of Pasay Metropolis. She is at present present process dwelling quarantine.
- The House ways and means committee accredited the tax provision of a invoice permitting native authorities models to obtain COVID-19 vaccines straight from producers.
