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(Eagle News) – Cebu City remains under Enhanced Community Quarantine after July 15, while Metro Manila, Cavite, Rizal, Benguet, Leyte, Southern Leyte and other cities and areas which are currently still under General Community Quarantine will stay under GCQ. President Rodrigo Duterte and his officials, including Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, made the announcement on Wednesday, July 8, at past 1 a.m. in a televised press briefing. Duque said that the considerations for the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Imee Marcos has filed a bill that aims to make the work-from-home arrangement mandatory. In pushing for Senate Bill No. 1448 that aims to amend Republic Act No. 11165, or the “Telecommuting Act,” Marcos noted the over 30,000 COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country. As of Sunday afternoon, there are 35455 COVID-19 cases. The World Health Organization has said the Philippines has the fastest rise in cases in the Western Pacific. “Clearly, a […]
(Eagle News) — A dismissed police officer and two others were killed in a shootout with policemen in Quezon on Thursday, June 25. In a statement on Friday, June 26, the Philippine National Police said Rico Moog Gutierrez, an intelligence officer before he was dismissed from the service after going AWOL; his cohort, Jose Pitarque Alcaria; and an unidentified suspect died after they figured in a 15-minute encounter with uniformed personnel who were only out […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch health authorities Monday reported no new deaths overnight resulting from the coronavirus pandemic for the first time since the beginning of March. Officially the Netherlands has reported 49,658 cases of infection, with 69 people testing positive over the last 24 hours. In all 6,090 people have died. “There has been no report of any deaths,” the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said on its website. The RIVM warned […]
Legendary Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram warned Wednesday that bowlers would become “robots” after cricket officials temporarily banned shining the ball with saliva as a coronavirus precaution. Bowlers traditionally get the ball to move or swing in the air by applying shine to one side using sweat or saliva. The International Cricket Council, however, has temporarily banned the practise over virus transmission fears as teams prepare to return to the pitch in the coming weeks. Players […]
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — More than a tenth of the population in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African country plagued by jihadist violence, is at risk of hunger, according to government figures issued on Thursday. A report by the country’s council of ministers found that 2,151,970 people will suffer from “severe food insecurity” across the nation this month and next — roughly half a million more than last year. In addition, “137,175 people […]
by Sam Jahan and Kazi Santo Agence France-Presse KHULNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Rezaul Islam wades through waist-high water, a sack of rice on his head salvaged from what remains of his home, a week after a cyclone savaged Bangladesh and eastern India. The strongest storm to hit the area this century killed more than 100 people, flattening entire villages, uprooting trees and ruining fish ponds in the Indian state of West Bengal, and south-west Bangladesh. “We […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — People with cancer are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those without it, a large study published Thursday found. The data on more than 900 patients in the US, Canada and Spain which appeared in a paper in The Lancet, found that mortality increased the further the cancer had progressed. Cancer patients with decreased ability to carry out daily life tasks were more at risk than […]
(Eagle News)–Nine volcanic earthquakes were recorded at Taal in a 24-hour period, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said on Monday, May 11. PHIVOLCS said the earthquake at the volcano, which remains on alert level 1, are associated “mainly with rock-fracturing processes beneath and around the edifice.” PHIVOLCS reminded the public that at alert level 1, sudden steam-driven explosions, volcanic earthquakes, minor ashfall and “lethal accumulations or expulsions of volcanic gas can occur and […]
(Eagle News)-The Northern Luzon Expressway Corp. has released a list of updated toll plazas on NLEx and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway amid the enhanced community quarantine. NLEx Corp. said the list was as of Wednesday, April 8: NLEx Corp. said the toll plazas may be subject to changes. The ECQ has been extended to April 30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKn7l4KYVvk ALBAY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Malaki ang pagpapasalamat ng mga buntis and lactating mothers sa iba’t- ibang barangay sa Tabaco City, Albay dahil sa natanggap nilang mga food packs. Totoong malaki ang maitutulong nito sa kanila lalo na’t ilan sa kanila ay pansamantalang nawalan ng trabaho at kita dahil sa umiiral na enhanced community quarantine. Kabilang sa mga barangay na nabigyan ay ang mga sumusunod na barangay: Basud, Panal, Bankilingan, Guinobat, Mariroc, Pinagbobong, […]
The Department of the Interior and Local Government has lauded the “White Ribbon initiative” of Barangay Malis in Guiguinto, Bulacan which prioritizes the less fortunate families of the community in the distribution of relief goods. In the said initiative, residents tie a white ribbon on their doors or gates signifying that they want to waive or pass on their relief packages to poor families who could not afford to buy their own food at this […]
