Manila Bulletin
Iloilo City under state of calamity due to whooping cough
Iloilo City officially declared a state of calamity on March 25, 2024, due to a pertussis outbreak, with the Sangguniang Panlungsod unanimously passing a resolution for the declaration.
The declaration allows access to PHP16.9 million from the city's calamity fund for medicines, vaccines, information campaigns, swab and test kits, masks, and training.
The city government has allocated P14 million for medicines, P2 million for testing kits, and P500,000 for masks and disinfectants.
An additional P300,000 is earmarked for training molecular laboratory staff at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) to enable local testing.
The City Health Office reported a total of 16 pertussis cases, mostly affecting toddlers or children aged one to three.
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Quezon City declared a pertussis outbreak after recording 23 cases and four infant deaths, aged 22 days to 60 days old, from January 1 to March 20, 2024.
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The province of Cavite declared a state of calamity due to a pertussis outbreak, with 36 reported cases and six deaths as of March 25, 2024.
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The Department of Health (DOH) is procuring at least 800,000 vaccine doses, expected to arrive in June through UNICEF, to combat the rising pertussis cases.
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