Increasing COVID-19 cases in the Philippines continues with 205 reported today

DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #65 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on May 18, 2020.

As of today, the Department of Health announced another 205 new cases of COVID-19 in the country and a total of 12,718 confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak. Our death tolls is up by 7 with a total of 831.

More recoveries are coming in with 94 new recoveries reported today which brings us to a total of 2,729 recorded recoveries.

COVID-19 was declared by World Health Organization (WHO) as a Pandemic on March 03, 2020 which started in Wuhan, China. The disease is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) with a Flu like symptoms such as Fever, Cough, Colds and in more severe cases Difficulty in Breathing.

There are no vaccines or direct cure for the disease at the moment and the only way to protect ourselves from getting infected is to practise proper and frequent handwashing, avoid touching our face, mouth, nose and eyes. Our health experts as well as the government urged everyone to wear a suitable and effective face mask as much as possible and when outside of our homes.