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Tag: COVID-19

  • COVID-19 concerns hound voters, volunteers in crowded polling precincts
    Categories News PHL Vote 2022

    COVID-19 concerns hound voters, volunteers in crowded polling precincts

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  May 09, 2022 11:01 AM

    The Commission on Elections (Comelec) assured that COVID-19 marshals and safety officers are deployed in polling precincts to make sure that minimum public health standards, such as physical distancing and wearing of masks, are followed.

    COVID-19, COVID19PH, Election 2022

  • VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Posts claiming DOH to bloat COVID cases before elections NOT TRUE
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK FB FC PHL Vote PHL Vote 2022

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Posts claiming DOH to bloat COVID cases before elections NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  May 08, 2022 11:11 AM

    Netizens on Facebook (FB) and Twitter have falsely claimed that the Department of Health (DOH) will artificially increase the number of COVID-19 cases in the country two days before the […]

    COVID-19, Department of Health, PHLVOTE2022

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    Categories Arts & Culture COVID-19 Watch

    Health frontliner’s verses on the pandemic hit reader where they matter

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Apr 09, 2022 4:21 PM

    Early in the pages of Dr. Joseph Adrian L. Buensalido’s Mikrobyong Maliit, Pandemyang Pasakit: Ang Tinulang Salaysay ng Pandemyang COVID-19, there is a certificate attesting that the holder or owner of the slim volume of 72 pages has lived and survived during the time of the pandemic. In Filipino it states that “I am happy I went past this grim part of history. Many died and did not see the dawn on their native land.”

    COVID-19, Dr. Joseph Adrian Buensalido

  • thumbnail_j-montemayor-covid-vaccine.jpg
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Montemayor’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines expose people to infection is BASELESS

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 25, 2022 8:58 PM

    Presidential candidate Jose “Joey” Montemayor’s claim that the COVID-19 vaccine has a “reverse” effect and exposes people to infection has no basis.

    COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine

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    Categories Seeing through the Smoke

    PH’s fight vs tobacco at a crossroads amid COVID pandemic

    By Robbin M. Dagle  |  Feb 04, 2022 4:09 PM

    One product’s availability online that many find worrisome is tobacco.

    COVID-19, DOH, tobacco, tobacco control

  • thumbnail_covid-19_pandemic-end.jpg
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Kailan matatapos ang COVID-19 pandemic?

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 31, 2022 9:26 PM

    Sa ikalawang taon ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, nagbigay ng hudyat ang administrasyong Duterte na “magbabago” na ng diskarte ang bansa sa 2022 mula sa isang “pandemic paradigm” tungo sa pamumuhay na kasama ang banta ng virus.

    COVID-19

  • thumbnail_covid-19_pandemic-end.jpg
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Fact Sheet Health News

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: When will the COVID-19 pandemic end?

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 31, 2022 8:34 PM

    Two years into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Duterte administration has signaled the country’s “shift” from a “pandemic paradigm” to learning how to live with the virus in 2022.

    COVID-19

  • 012422 NEEDS CONTEXT Duterte two vaccine doses_WEB copy.png
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Clip of Duterte saying addt’l COVID-19 vaccine doses are ‘dangerous’ NEEDS CONTEXT

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 25, 2022 8:24 PM

    Malacañang has noted that “clear evidence” shows the jabs provide added protection against the novel coronavirus.

    booster shot, COVID-19, vaccine

  • 011321 NEEDS CONTEXT Omicron vs. Delta symptoms_WEB copy.jpg
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mga sintomas ng sipon at mga variant ng Omicron, Delta na ibinahagi ni Dr. Willie Ong nangangailangan ng konteksto

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 21, 2022 3:37 PM

    Sinabi ni vice presidential candidate Willie Ong sa isang health vlog na ang karaniwang sipon at ang mga Omicron at Delta variant ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ay maaaring matukoy sa pamamagitan ng mga sintomas na nararanasan ng mga pasyente. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.

    COVID-19, Delta variant, Omicron variant

  • 011321 NEEDS CONTEXT Omicron vs. Delta symptoms_WEB copy.jpg
    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Dr. Willie Ong shares symptoms of colds and Omicron, Delta variants that need context

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 21, 2022 2:53 PM

    Vice presidential candidate Willie Ong said in a health vlog that the common cold and the Omicron and Delta variants of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be determined through the symptoms experienced by patients. This needs context.

    COVID-19, Delta variant, Omicron variant

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