15 medical associations urge two-week or more lockdown
As the coronavirus pandemic threatens to overwhelm health services, 15 medical associations have identified the need to apply a closure...
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Shopping by gender returns as covid deaths surge
Shopping by gender is back and new quarantine and curfew measures introduced as the health system reaches a critical point...
Total lockdown over Christmas and New Year
A total quarantine from December 25 to 28, 2020, and from January 1 to 4, 2021, was announced by Health...
1,612 new Covid-19 cases, 26 deaths
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported 1,612 new positive cases oCOVID-19 on Monday,December 14, for a cumulative total of 194,619....
Health Minister urges use of face shields on public transport
The additional use of face shields as a complementary barrier to avoid the contagion of Covid-19 in public transport, as...
Children's Hospital cancels elective surgery
On Monday, December 14, the Children's Hospital will suspend all elective surgeries and care in the Specialized Outpatients. "These measures...
Doctors call for 10-day total lockdown
The Association of Dental Doctors and Related Doctors of the Social Security Fund (Amoacss) ha surged the Government to establish...
Covid-19 cases rebound 22%
Active cases of Covid -19 1increased by 21.6% during the rebound seen since last month. On November 10 there were...
The Oxford vaccine is effective and safe
The vaccine against symptomatic covid-19 developed by the English University of Oxford with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has acceptable levels...
Hospitals near breaking point as Covid-19 cases soar
The epidemiological week that ended Saturday closed with 12,454 new cases of Covid-19 up 2,578 compared to the previous week...
First covid vaccine shots arrive early 2021
The first batch of 450,000 vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer will arrive in Panama between January and March 2021 and will be...
Call for seasonal restraint as virus cases zoom
The indicators of Covid-19 have soared alarmingly, despite strong calls to the population to be judicious, sensible, and careful in...
