Rappler's latest stories on public health emergency
Cebu to start screening domestic passengers after coronavirus cases confirmed in Metro Manila
Currently, only passengers from international airports are scanned for high fever
Duterte declares state of public health emergency amid rise in coronavirus cases
(UPDATED) The declaration comes as the health officials count 10 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including the first case of local transmission in the Philippines
‘No right to resist’ quarantine under state of public health emergency – DOH
President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to soon issue an Executive Order formally declaring a state of public health emergency due to the novel coronavirus
Duterte to declare state of public health emergency over coronavirus
(3rd UPDATE) The Department of Health has raised the COVID-19 alert system to Code Red-Sublevel 1 as a 'a signal to all concerned agencies, local governments, health care providers to be ready to for planned response measures'
A virus that's reshaping the world: This week's outlook
The coronavirus outbreak is not only messing up everyone’s business and personal travel plans, but is also hitting economies hard and reshaping the global supply chain that the world has grown accustomed to
DR Congo Ebola outbreak an emergency of global concern – WHO
'It is time for the world to take notice,' says World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accepting the advice of his advisory board to invoke the emergency provision
Ubial: PH drug problem a 'public health emergency'
Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial says around P145 million of its Quick Response Fund will be used to address the immediate needs in treatment and rehabilitation centers
WHO holds emergency Ebola meeting as death toll reaches 932
UPDATED The closed door session is tasked with ruling whether the outbreak constitutes what is known in WHO speak as a public health emergency of international concern
Going abroad? DOH mulls mandatory oral polio vaccine
For now the health department is encouraging Filipinos heading to countries with reported cases of polio to take the oral vaccine in private clinics and hospitals
WHO declares polio 'public health emergency'
The World Health Organization says that the polio situation if left unchecked could result in failure to eradicate globally one of the world s most serious vaccine preventable diseases
