Travelers bound for Catanduanes who journeyed without undergoing COVID-19 test but tested positive in antigen testing at Tabaco port are now being allowed to board the ferry. Information reaching the…
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Doctors urge Catanduanes upgrade to ECQ from 2 to 4 weeks
Expressing fears that the local healthcare system would be overwhelmed by increasing COVID-19 cases and a surge in hospital admissions, the Catanduanes Medical Society has recommended that the province’s quarantine…
Death toll from COVID-19 reaches 17
Complications from the coronavirus disease among those infected have killed at least 17 Catandunganons on the island as of Monday, June 14, 2021, with two more suspect deaths being confirmed.…
Only APORs from nat’l agencies are exempt from COVID testing
Following an advisory from the Bicol Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), the provincial government has issued a new Executive Order exempting Authorized Persons Outside Residence (APORs) of national government agencies from…
Public, travelers urged to heed border control, health protocols
Governor Joseph Cua last week made a public appeal to constituents and travelers to Catanduanes to abide by the minimum health protocols being implemented against COVID-19, particularly the stricter border…
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Stricter border controls against COVID-19 are useless if…
In the wake of the nearly 8,000 new COVID-19 cases recorded daily in the country, governors in the Bicol region have ordered stricter border controls targeting travelers from Metro Manila…
COVID-19 cases here rise to 222
Six more new cases of coronavirus disease were recorded in Catanduanes over the past week as the Department of Health reiterated to the public the importance of observing the minimum…
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Travelers from outside Bicol need negative test result
Inbound travelers from outside the Bicol region will have to present a negative test result for COVID-19 before thety will be allowed entry into Catanduanes, the provincial government announced last…
Breach of quarantine protocols blamed for recent spike in new COVID-19 cases
With the number of coronavirus deaths nearly doubling and new cases for the first week of March matching that for the entire previous month, health authorities last week pinned the…
No side effects so far; 579 already vaccinated
None of the 579 frontline health care workers already vaccinated against COVID-19 in Catanduanes have so far developed any side effects, the Department of Health said last weekend. DOH provincial…