Last week saw the highest number of COVID-19 cases reported so far, and 46 percent of all the global cases were from the European region accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths, the two top World Health Organization officials said.
Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana thanks the Australian government for its continued support to the country's efforts to contain the COVID-19.
A total of 50 newly hired contact tracers of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Bicol have been deployed to Virac town in Catanduanes province to help in the continuous fight against the COVID-19.
A 66-bed quarantine facility at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila was launched in the city of Manila on Thursday, the biggest one that the government has opened so far.