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(Eagle News) — Nineteen more overseas Filipinos have tested positive for COVID-19. According to recent Department of Foreign Affairs data, the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad–whether active or not–to 15967. Two more deaths pushed the COVID-19 deaths to 1047. The DFA said 25 more overseas Filipinos have recovered, pushing the recovery total to 9691. According to DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the most COVID-19 […]
(Eagle New) — The Philippine National Police on Sunday, March 21, reported an additional death among its police personnel due to COVID-19, pushing the PNP COVID-19 death toll to 36. In a separate statement, PNP officer-in-charge Guillermo Eleazar said the 36th PNP COVID-19 fatality was a female police commissioned officer assigned as a document examiner and as one of the team leaders of the Valenzuela City Scene of the Crime Operations. Eleazar said she was […]
(Eagle News)–Health authorities on Saturday, March 20, reported additional variant cases in the Philippines, which is currently battling a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Department of Health (DOH), the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) said in a joint statement that the 46 additional B.1.1.7 variant cases, 62 additional B.1.351 variant cases, and six additional P.3 variant cases were found among the eleventh batch […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 more police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. According to Philippine National Police data, the 111 additional cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 12,735. Of these, 1,176 were active. Forty more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19, pushing the PNP recovery total to 11,525. No additional death was reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 34. Earlier, the PNP announced PNP Chief Debold Sinas had tested […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra is mulling extending the lockdown of the Department of Justice after 17 more personnel tested positive for COVID-19. “We have a total of 45 active cases now, and I’m getting alarmed,” Guevarra said. The lockdown on the main building in Manila was supposed to be only from March 12 to 16. During the lockdown, most employees work from home. A skeleton staff, however, reports on-site to receive documents. The Philippines […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Friday, March 19, reported 7,103 additional cases, the most number of COVID-19 cases reported in the country in a single day since the pandemic began. According to DOH data, the additional cases pushed the active COVID-19 cases to 73,264. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines–whether active or not–have reached 648,066 as a result. The DOH said of the active cases, 93.9 percent were mild, 3.3 percent asymptomatic, […]
(Eagle News) — The main office of the Department of Education is temporarily closed until March 24. In a statement, DepEd said the temporary closure which started on Thursday, March 18, was to pave the way for a disinfection of the premises and contact tracing. All central office personnel shall be on a work-from-home setup during the temporary closure. DepEd said, however, that DepEd operations shall continue “through virtual and alternative means.” “We enjoin our […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Friday, March 19, called on local government units to use the StaySafe.ph application instead of developing their own contact tracing systems. In a statement, Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, also the department spokesperson, said “it will be easier and more cost-efficient for LGUs to just use StaySafe instead of buying their own.” Besides, he said “we will soon fully implement the StaySafe application and […]
Museums, cultural centers to be covered by circular to be issued today (Eagle News) — Arcades, driving schools and movie houses will be ordered closed for two weeks. Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said museums and cultural centers that are limited to social events in Department of Tourism-accredited establishments will also be ordered temporarily shut down, based on a circular Lopez said he would issue today, March 19. “Due to (the) rising cases, DTI also supports […]
(Eagle News) — All Filipino citizens are now allowed entry into the Philippines. This was after the National Task Force Against COVID-19 revised its March 16 circular that temporarily suspended the entry of returning Filipinos who are not Overseas Filipino Workers. According to the new March 18 circular signed by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the revisions were in view of the agreements made in the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 active cases in the Philippines increased to 66,567 after the Department of Health reported 5,290 additional cases, the seventh consecutive day more than 4,000 additional cases were reported in a single day. The DOH said the additional cases also pushed the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines to 640984. Of the total active cases, the DOH said 93.3 percent were mild, 3.7 percent asymptomatic, 1.2 percent critical, 1.2 percent severe, and […]
(Eagle News) — Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez has tested positive for COVID-19 again. “[I’ve] been wearing mask shield and distancing outside home but still got hit,” he said. He said he was asymptomatic and was in isolation. This is the second time Lopez contracted COVID-19. He also got infected with the COVID-19 virus in December last year. Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said he tested positive for COVID-19. The PNP said PNP Chief Debold Sinas […]
