Foreign reserves dropped for the third straight month in March after the government paid up foreign obligations using some of its dollars while gold values dropped, the central bank said on Friday.

DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the department needs more evidence and recommendations about this from health authorities abroad.

For this year, the company admitted it is not out of the woods yet.

The travel ban on foreigners, which took effect on March 22, was supposed to end on April 21.

The Philippines on Friday recorded 10,726 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 914,971.