Get vaccinated, mayor tells residents

CHIEF COVID frontliner Mayor Beng Climaco renewed appeals to unvaccinated Zamboanga residents to take advantage of the many vaccination sites and get inoculated against the deadly Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Zambo mass vaccination continues

Government pledges more COVOD-19 medicines

THE LOCAL government continues its mass vaccination program as it targets to inoculate at least 70% of the nearly one million population to be able to achieve herd immunity against the deadly COVID-19.

Zamboanga City Medical Center praises mayor

THE ZAMBOANGA City Medical Center (ZCMC) lauded Mayor Beng Climaco for her administration’s continuing support to the health sector, especially at this time of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Zambo gets fresh supply of medical oxygen

MAYOR BENG Climaco said the local government has purchased a fresh supply of medical grade oxygen in an effort to help government and private hospitals cope with the shortage of oxygen in Zamboanga City due to the spike in Covid-19 cases.

Covid wards full of ‘unvaccinated’ patients

CHIEF COVID fighter Mayor Beng Climaco renewed calls for residents to vaccinate against the deadly lung disease and to strictly follow public health protocols due to the surge in coronavirus infections in Zamboanga where majority of the patients are unvaccinated.

Zambo hospitals struggle with Covid cases, lack of oxygen supplies

PRIVATE AND government hospitals here are now facing a shortage in oxygen supply following the surge in Covid-19 cases in the past months.

Zambo Covid cases breach 1,000 mark, hospital wards full

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The number of active Covid-19 cases here has breached the 1,000 mark with a record high of 177 cases in just one day as government hospitals are now full of patients, including doctors who contracted the deadly respiratory disease from non-Covid wards. 

Zambo region gets 10,200 doses on Chinese Covid vaccines

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Some 10,200 doses of Chinese vaccine Sinovac intended for medical frontliners arrived Friday in Zamboanga City, Mayor Beng Climaco said.

Zamboanga simulates Covid vaccination

THE ZAMBOANGA City Government continues with its Covid-19 vaccination program and simulating the various processes for the mass inoculation here.

Zambo woman doubts own Covid infection

A WOMAN who was previously tested positive for Covid-19 at the Zamboanga City Medical Center now doubts whether she was really infected with the deadly respiratory disease or not.

Zambo Covid labs lack RNA extraction kits

‘Shortage due to spike in 

coronavirus, delays test results’ 

THE LACK or unavailability of RNA extraction kit and the increasing number of Covid-19 specimens from other provinces and Zamboanga City have caused delay in the results of laboratory tests.

Dialysis patient gets Covid-19 in hospital

ZAMBOANGA CITY - A 58-year old local woman undergoing haemodialysis at the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) contracted the deadly coronavirus respiratory disease.

Zambo’s quarantine measures slow down Covid spread

ZAMBOANGA CITY has effectively controlled the spread of the deadly new coronavirus disease or Covid-19 and slowed down the pandemic through the strict enforcement of the quarantine guidelines set by the national government.

Over a dozen new Covid-19 cases reported in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Over a dozen prisoners released recently from jail have tested positive for the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 bringing to 109 the number of infected in Zamboanga City.

Zambo woman tests positive for deadly virus

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 64-year old woman suffering from hypertension, diabetes and pneumonia has been tested positive for the deadly novel coronavirus disease and is the 11^th case for Zamboanga City, the Department of Health announced Thursday.

Another prisoner dies from Covid-19, 10th case in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A second prisoner infected with novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) died on Wednesday in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, the Department of Health said.

Body of Zambo Covid patient handed to jail authorities

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The body of a local prisoner who died from the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) was handed to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, according to Dr Justin Faber, a spokesman for the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC).

Second Covid-19 patient dies in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A prisoner who was rushed to hospital had died from the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and making him the second in Zamboanga City to succumbed to the respiratory virus.

Zamboanga Task Force Covid-19 rescues sick old man

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A sickly old man living alone on a village in Zamboanga City was rescued by health authorities and brought to hospital on Wednesday after neighbors sought help from the local government.

Zamboanga reports 1st Covid-19 death

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A nonagenarian woman here tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, died on Tuesday. She was the first local to die from Covid-19, said Mayor Beng Climaco.