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(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police has reported 55 additional COVID-19 recoveries among police personnel. The PNP said with the additional ones, the recovery tally rose to 4610 as of Monday night. Sixty-one new COVID-19 cases brought the total to 5812. The PNP said of these, 1185 were active. No new deaths were reported, which means the death toll remains at 17. The police are among the country’s frontliners, as they continue to man quarantine checkpoints […]
Frontal system affecting extreme N. Luzon (Eagle News)–The southwest monsoon is affecting the western section of Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the frontal system is also affecting extreme Northern Luzon. PAGASA said Western Visayas, Palawan including Kalayaan Group of Islands, and Occidental Mindoro will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to southwest monsoon. The rest of Visayas, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, Sept. 29: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Domestic flights are allowed with Metro Manila under a general community quarantine but subject to the restrictions of the local government unit that has jurisdiction over the area of destination. Metro Manila is expected to remain a GCQ area until the end of October. Restrictions on international flights remain.
(Eagle News)–Metro Manila will remain under a general community quarantine starting Oct. 1. President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night also approved the announcement that Batangas, Tacloban, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Iligan would be GCQ areas starting October. Lanao del Sur, including Marawi City, will be under a stringent modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). The rest of the country on the other hand will be under the least stringent modified general community quarantine. The newly-announced quarantine […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte may announce the country’s quarantine classifications tonight. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President may make the announcement in his Monday public address. Roque said the President’s address will take place after the meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. At present, Metro Manila is under the less stringent general community quarantine. Earlier, Roque said some cities in Metro Manila may be placed […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 307,000 mark after the Department of Health reported additional 3073 cases today. The DOH said of the 307,288, 49,242 were active. Of these, 86.4 percent were mild, 8.7 percent asymptomatic, 1.5 percent severe, and 3.4 percent critical. Of the 3,073 newly-reported cases, 1158 came from Metro Manila, 225 from Cavite, 203 from Laguna, 173 from Rizal, and 169 from Batangas. Recoveries rose to 252,665 including […]
(Eagle News)–Work in government offices in the executive branch is suspended starting 3:30 p.m. today. The suspension was announced in memorandum circular number 80 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea. The memorandum said the suspension was pursuant to Proclamation No. 60, s. 1992, which declared the last week of September of every year as family week, and was “in order to afford government workers and their families time to celebrate in their respective homes the […]
Three land-based OFWs to return home, too (Eagle News)–Nineteen Filipinos from China will be arriving in the Philippines tomorrow. The Department of Foreign Affairs said of the 19, 16 were seafarers who have been stranded amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Eleven of these were from Ocean Star 86 who have been stranded in Dongshan since March. Earlier, Migrante alleged the government was not exerting efforts to get the seafarers home, an allegation the DFA strongly denied. […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police announced on Monday, Sept. 28, the arrest of an alleged assistant of Abu Sayyaf leader Mundi Sawadjaan. In a press conference, PNP Chief Camilo Cascolan said Hashim Saripada, also known as Ibnu Kashir Saripada, was arrested by operatives of the Regional Intelligence Unit of the Police Regional Office 9 and the 84th Special Action Company of the Special Action Force at 6:30 a.m. in Barangay Recodo in Zamboanga City on […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs said its consular office in the National Capital Region-East in SM Megamall will be closed today, Sept. 28. The DFA said the temporary closure was to allow for a disinfection of the office premises and “implementation of other preventive measures to manage and prevent risks against COVID-19.” The consular office will resume its regular operations on Tuesday, September 29. The DFA said affected applicants with confirmed appointments must secure […]
(Eagle News)–Five new COVID-19 cases were reported among overseas Filipinos, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. The DFA said with the added cases from Africa, the total rose to 10438. The department said the Middle East and Africa still had the most COVID-19 cases with 7079, followed by the Asia Pacific region with 1372, Europe with 1179, and the Americas with 808. One additional death pushed the death toll to 791. No additional recoveries were […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police has reported 56 additional COVID-19 recoveries among police personnel. The PNP said with the additional recoveries, the total number of recoveries among the police rose to 4556. Forty-six additional COVID-19 cases brought the total to 5751. Of these, 1178 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the death toll remains at 17. The police are among the country’s frontliners, as they continue to man quarantine checkpoints and implement […]
