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(Eagle News)–Fourteen more personnel of the National Capital Region Police Office have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 47. The NCRPO said those who tested positive are now isolated at the Hinirang Hall of the Quezon City Police District. NCRPO chief Police Major General Debol Sinas has ordered a contact tracing of those who had direct contact with the new cases. “This is the reason why we are pursuing the testing for all […]
(Eagle News) – Senior citizens may now avail of the 20% discount on vitamins and mineral supplements, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Thursday, May 7. In a virtual presser, DOH spokesperson Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that this is provided for in Administrative Order No. 2012 0007-A, which amended the earlier guidelines on the grant of senior citizen discount on medicines and other goods. “Pwede na po kayong bumili ng vitamins and mineral […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported 21 new confirmed COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,922 as of Thursday, May 7. “To date, the daily rate of recoveries at 6.5% remains higher than the daily rate of new confirmed cases and new deaths among our nationals”, the DFA said in a statement. The DFA also reported 37 new recoveries, mostly from the Asia and […]
Final decision still rests on IATF, MMC chair says (Eagle News) — Metro Manila mayors are eyeing another 15-day extension of the enhanced community quarantine in the National Capital Region. This is according to Paranaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez, who is also the chair of the Metro Manila Council, the policy-making body of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. The MMC is composed of the mayors of the cities and municipalities within NCR. In a television interview […]
(Eagle News) – A one-year-and-six-month old baby boy has become the youngest Filipino COVID-19 survivor in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Thursday, May 7. In a statement, the DFA said that Baby Zaine tested negative for COVID-19 three weeks after both he and his mother were informed that they were COVID-19 positive and started treatment. “The Philippine Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hjayceelyn M. […]
(Eagle News) – The country’s total crime volume dropped 34.45% during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period, the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported on Thursday, May 7. In a statement, PNP Chief Archie Gamboa said the national total crime volume dropped “from 58,705 cases in the period February 1 to March 16, down to only 38,484 cases in March 17 to April 30 under ECQ.” Serious or index crimes – murder, homicide, physical injury, robbery, […]
(Eagle News)–ABSCBN Corp. on Thursday, May 7, asked the Supreme Court to nullify and set aside the cease and desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission against it after the media giant’s franchise expired. In a more than 40-page petition for certiorari and prohibition, ABSCBN Corp. also asked the SC to issue a temporary restraining order on the NTC CDO, which came after Solicitor General Jose Calida said there was nothing in the […]
(Eagle News) –COVID-19 recoveries in the country rose to 1618 on Thursday, May 7, as cases climbed to 10343. The 1618 recoveries include the additional 112, which represent the country’s single-day highest number of recoveries so far. The Department of Health said of the 339 new COVID-19 cases, 61 percent or 305 cases were from Region 7, 32 percent or 110 from Metro Manila, and 7 percent or 24 cases from other areas. Twenty-seven new […]
(Eagle News) — Malls and shopping centers under a general community quarantine are not allowed to hold marketing or sales events that attract large crowds. This is only of the many guidelines issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, in a bid to contain the COVID-19 virus, which has so far infected over 10,000 in the country. Apart from the ban, the following are the instructions to malls, which […]
PSA says this is PHL’s first economic contraction since 1998 (Eagle News) — The Philippine economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2020, its first contraction since the fourth quarter of 1998, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. According to the PSA, the main contributors to the decline were manufacturing, transportation and storage, and accommodation and food service activities. Agriculture, forestry and fishing; and industry—both major economic sectors—contracted by 0.4 percent and 3.0 […]
(Eagle News)–The United States on Thursday, May 7, announced an additional P298 million in aid to the Philippines in its fight against COVID-19. In a statement, the US embassy in Manila said with the amount, the total US COVID-19 assistance given to the archipelago now amounts to over P768 million. As part of the additional assistance, the US embassy said the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will partner with 18 local governments in some […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration on Thursday, May 7, belied social media reports there would be an “equinox phenomenon” in the next five days. PAGASA said in the first place, the spring equinox already ended on March 20. The autumnal equinox, on the other hand, will take place on Sept. 23. PAGASA said an equinox takes place when the center of the sun is directly on top of the world’s Equator. […]
