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DOST: VCO decreased virus amount up to 90% in mild COVID; Lagundi, Tawatawa reduced symptoms

October 23, 2021
PHL records 5,807 new cases; total active cases down to 2.3 percent

October 23, 2021
Mayor Sara confirms meeting with Bongbong Marcos in Cebu, posts photos of talks

October 23, 2021
Mayor Sara flies to Cebu on same day that Bongbong Marcos is also in the province

October 23, 2021
Robredo chooses labor leader Matula over Makabayan’s Colmenares as 12th senate bet

October 23, 2021

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DOST: VCO decreased virus amount up to 90% in mild COVID; Lagundi, Tawatawa reduced symptoms

October 23, 2021

(Eagle News) — VCO or Virgin Coconut Oil compounds have decreased the amount of virus in mild COVID cases by as much as 60 to 90 percent in vitro, while clinical trials on Lagundi and TawaTawa have also shown favorable results, according to an official of the Department of Science and Technology. DOST Undersecretary Rowena Guevarra cited results of the in-vitro study of VCO on mild COVID cases which showed that the VCO compound […]

PHL records 5,807 new cases; total active cases down to 2.3 percent

October 23, 2021

(Eagle News) — The Philippines recorded 5,807 new COVID-19 cases and 9,578 new recoveries on Saturday, Oct. 23. This brought the number of active cases down to 63,501, much lower than Friday’s 66,838. Because of this, the percentage of active cases has gone down to just 2.3 percent while total recoveries increased to 2,647,031 or 96.2 percent of the total Covid cases. Total Covid infections reported since the pandemic reached 2,751,667. New deaths reported […]

Mayor Sara confirms meeting with Bongbong Marcos in Cebu, posts photos of talks

October 23, 2021

(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio confirmed on Saturday, Oct. 23 that she and presidential aspirant former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., met today in Cebu. “Confirmed po na nagkita kami ngayon lang ni Presidential aspirant at former Senator BBM sa masayang pagdiriwang ng birthday ni Cong. Yedda, maybahay ni House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez sa Cebu,” Duterte-Carpio said in her official Facebook post on Saturday, Oct. 23. She also posted several […]

Mayor Sara flies to Cebu on same day that Bongbong Marcos is also in the province

October 23, 2021

Cebu visit, “Sara All 2022” shirt, fuel speculation that presidential daughter might run for a nat’l post in 2022 (Eagle News) — Davao City mayor Sara Duterte flew to Cebu on Friday, Oct. 22, after recovering from COVID-19, on the same day that presidential candidate former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was also in the province for a scheduled visit. The presidential daughter posted photos on her official page showing her alighting from a […]

International

Inquiry into Alec Baldwin shooting focuses on custody of gun

October 24, 2021

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing Saturday on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who handed it to Baldwin. Ukraine-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was struck in the chest and died shortly after the incident Thursday in New Mexico, while director Joel Souza, 48, who was standing […]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

October 24, 2021

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House said Friday it would delay the release of long-classified documents related to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. President Joe Biden wrote in a statement that the remaining files “shall be withheld from full public disclosure” until December 15 next year — nearly 60 years after Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963. In 2018, former president Donald Trump released several thousand secret files on […]

Peru surpasses 200,000 Covid deaths: officials

October 23, 2021

by Luis Jaime CISNEROS Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru, which has the world’s highest Covid-19 death rate per capita, has surpassed 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Friday. The ministry announced 25 new deaths over the previous 24 hours, taking the South American country over the symbolic threshold with 200.003 deaths since the pandemic started in March 2020. The Andean country of 33 million has also recorded […]

Europe reels from powerful ‘Aurore’ storm

October 23, 2021

by Jürgen HECKER Agence France Presse Storm “Aurore” swept across parts of northern Europe on Thursday, leaving four dead in Poland and causing substantial damage in Germany, France, the Netherlands and elsewhere. All four deaths in Poland occurred in the Lower Silesia region. One person was killed when a van was blown off the road and a builder died when a wall of a house under construction fell over. In the city of Wroclaw, […]

Headlines

Inquiry into Alec Baldwin shooting focuses on custody of gun

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

China passes law to reduce pressure on children from homework

US targeting Feb. 2022 to launch new lunar program Artemis

Parish church in New Jersey receives food donations from Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC)

WATCH: Stories of how the INC’s Aid to Humanity helped communities in the Americas amid the pandemic

Iglesia Ni Cristo extends assistance to media frontliners affected by the pandemic

PM Trudeau thanks Iglesia Ni Cristo’s FYM Foundation for humanitarian efforts in Canada

Mayor Sara confirms meeting with Bongbong Marcos in Cebu, posts photos of talks

Mayor Sara flies to Cebu on same day that Bongbong Marcos is also in the province

Japan’s Mount Aso volcano erupts

4.8 magnitude Bali quake in photos