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Inhaling extremely hot steam has a risk of burn injury, WHO adds.

Meralco customers will still pay for their March and April consumptions, but in four installments.

Many have grown to see testing as a panacea: roll it out massively and everything else should follow. There’s no denying that testing plays a central role in controlling the pandemic, but there is cause to stay level-headed about what it can and can’t do.

For a couple of weeks two months ago, even as SARS-CoV-2 rampaged across the globe, all seemed right in the Philippines. Today, easily more than 5,000 people have tested positive for the virus all over the country and at least 300 have lost their lives. The tallies are expected to worsen in the coming weeks.

The FDA debunked the claim. Its chief also said the drug has no application for registration yet.

The quote card is fake. The DSWD secretary made no such statement on April 2.

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The government started mass testing on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) one month after President Rodrigo Duterte declared a state of public health emergency and later imposed a Luzon-wide lockdown to stop the rampaging virus that has afflicted 4,932 persons and claimed the lives of 315, including 21 doctors, as of 4 p.m. on April 13.

WHO refuted the claim of eggs as a COVID-19 cure.

The story dubiously points out alleged similarities between COVID-19 and the viruses described in the books.

President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in his previous late night speeches: that the novel coronavirus is airborne, and that China has registered the highest death toll.