FACT-CHECK: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was not diagnosed with a disease
A TikTok video falsely claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was diagnosed with a disease.
Monkeypox
Alarmed by the spread of monkeypox in at least 75 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the viral disease is a public health emergency of international concern, as more than 16,000 cases have been reported outside the central and western African regions where the disease is endemic.
Asymptomatic, mild cases changed by DOH to ‘recovered’ in mass adjustment
Asymptomatic and mild coronavirus disease 2019 cases (Covid-19) have been reclassified as recovered after 14 days from when the illness was first detected under a “mass recovery adjustment,” the Department of Health (DOH) said in a press release on Thursday.
