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(Eagle News)–The number of online business registrants rose to 75,000 as of Sept. 2, the Department of Trade and Industry said. According to DTI, the 75,876 who registered were a huge increase from the 1,753 reported from January to March 15, before the community quarantines imposed in the country. According to Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez, business name applications reached 9,692 in May, and further increased in June when over 33,000 business names were registered. “The […]
Five additional deaths reported (Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed 12 additional COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos. With the additional cases reported on Monday night, the tally rises to 10129. Five new deaths were reported in the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East, bringing the death toll to 763. The Middle East and Africa still had the most COVID-19 deaths, with 482, followed by the Americas with 178, Europe with 95, and […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed a Filipino has died in the sinking of a Panamanian-flagged ship off Japan. The DFA made the announcement after authorities confirmed the person who was found face down and unconscious adrift at sea on Sept. 4 was indeed of Filipino nationality. The family of the deceased identified the remains, the DFA said. Meanwhile, the department said based on reports from the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo and the […]
(Eagle News)–Bacolod and Lanao del Sur will be under the more stringent modified enhanced community quarantine starting Sept. 8. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this was based on an Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases resolution approved by the President Rodrigo Duterte. The resolution was issued following the increase in COVID-19 cases in the two areas. Bacolod so far has 1,723 confirmed cases, Lanao del Sur, meanwhile, has 370 COVID-19 cases […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has granted absolute pardon to US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, this means whether or not Pemberton is entitled to good conduct time allowance is no longer an issue. According to Roque, under the absolute pardon, the President, however, “did not erase Pemberton’s conviction.” “Mamatay-tao pa rin po siya, pero kung ano yung karagdagang parusa pa, binura na ng Presidente,” he added. […]
(Eagle News) — The number of COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 238,000 mark on Monday, Sept. 7, after the Department of Health reported less than 2,000 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the 238,727 total cases, 49,931 were active. Of these, 88.3 percent were mild, 8.3 percent asymptomatic, 1.4 percent severe, and 2 percent critical. The 1383 additional cases were from results of tests done by 88 out of 115 labs. Of […]
(Eagle News) — The sister of the late former Ozamiz City councilor Ardot Parojinog died over the weekend. Philippine National Police Chief Camilo Cascolan said Melodina Parojinog-Malingin, who was detained over the same drug-related charges as her brother, died due to “cardiogenic shock secondary to intractable cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation to ventricular tachychardia secondary to massive gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to uremic gastropathy.” Parojinog-Malingin died at the Mayor Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center in Ozamiz City […]
Three of their superiors also charged (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has filed administrative charges against the policemen involved in the shooting of soldiers in Jolo, Sulu in June. PNP Chief Gen. Camilo Cascolan said the charges were filed by the PNP-Internal Affairs Service after the National Bureau of Investigation filed murder and planting of evidence charges against them. Cascolan said also charged administratively were the three superiors of the policemen. He said […]
(Eagle News) — Antonio Sanchez, who was convicted of the murder and rape of two University of the Philippines students in the 1990s, has been transferred to the Jose Rizal Memorial Medical Center for further tests. In a Facebook post, the Bureau of Corrections said the former mayor of Calauan, Laguna was transferred for referral to a nephrologist and a sputum exam on the evening of Friday, September 4. BuCor said the transfer was made […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has reported an additional COVID-19 case among overseas Filipinos over the weekend. With the additional case, the total tally rose to 10,117, based on September 6 data, the DFA said. No new recovery was reported, which means the total remains at 6284. The death toll is at 758, with no additional deaths reported from foreign service posts. The DFA said so far, the Middle East and Africa had the […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has raised more than P3 billion in revenues for the government during the first half of the year. The bureau said the P3.14 billion raised were despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, although it was 39-percent lower than the P4.3 billion the agency remitted to the national treasury in the same period last year. Bureau Commissioner Jaime Morente said the revenues were collected from January to June. “We still […]
(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 237,000 mark on Sunday, Sept. 6, after the Department of Health reported 2839 additional cases. The DOH said of the 237,365 total cases, 48803 were active. Of these, 88.6 percent were mild, 8 percent asymptomatic, 1.4 percent severe, and 2 percent critical. The 2839 additional cases were from results of tests done by 96 out of 115 labs. Of these, 1170 were from Metro Manila, 195 from […]
