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On June 11, 2009, Department of Health confirmed first case of influenza in Nueva Ecija, an 11-year-old student from the same school. [41] A day after, 10 more children tested positive for the flu, nine of which are from the same school and another four-year-old toddler. [42]
During the pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) has officially counted for 8 A/H1N1 deaths. The DOH kept record until July 29, 2009. A separate European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control report dated September 9, 2009 tallied the number of deaths in the Philippines to 28. [ 19 ]
Confirmed cases Deaths Region I: 5 0 Region II: 1 0 CAR: 187 4 Region III: 248 0 NCR: 1, 255 4 Region IV-A: 251 0 Region IV-B: 10 0 Region V: 28 0 Region VI: 7 0 Region VII: 10 0 Region VIII: 42 1 Region IX: 1 0 Region X: 19 0 ARMM: 0 0 Region XI: 11 0 Region XII: 1 0 Caraga: 13 0
The Philippines government has prepared a manual dating back as early as 2004 which tackles on dealing with an avian influenza (AI) outbreak in the country. Under the manual there are four possible stages of occurrence of bird flu in the country. [8] an AI-free nation; AI outbreak in poultry; AI transmission from poultry to humans
On 18 May, a Filipina girl who arrived from Houston was the first confirmed case in the Philippines. [247] As of 15 June, there were 193 confirmed cases. [248] On 22 June, the first death was reported. [249] The first case in Singapore was confirmed on 27 May. It was announced on 18 June that Singapore appeared to have its first case. [250]
It was the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with an influenza A(H5N2) virus globally and the first avian H5 virus reported in a person in Mexico, according to the WHO.
The IATF-EID convened in January 2020 to address the growing viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. [5] They made a resolution to manage the spreading of the new virus, [5] which was known at the time as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and eventually renamed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. [6]
The Department of Health (DOH; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care, the regulation of all health services and products.