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(Eagle News) — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Sunday, Dec. 12, said it was coordinating with Banco de Oro to ensure that “remedial measures are being undertaken” following reports on social media about thousands of pesos supposedly siphoned off from BDO online bank accounts. BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said these measures include a possible “reimbursement of affected consumers.” “Rest assured that we continue to collaborate and engage stakeholders to ensure the safety and integrity […]
(Eagle News) — The low pressure area southeast of Palau and outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has intensified into a tropical depression. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, it may enter PAR on Tuesday. It will be named “Odette” if this happens, the weather bureau said. According to PAGASA, the weather disturbance is expected to make landfall over the Eastern Visayas-Caraga area, based on its forecast track. So far, it […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police backed Interior Secretary Eduardo Año’s call for specific guidelines to be issued on pre-campaign period activities. According to PNP Dionardo Carlos, the outlined guidelines will “prompt us to act on specific actions.” “The campaign period for both local and national candidates is still early next year and there have been caravans being done anywhere in the country,” he said. He said such guidelines would enable the police to […]
Positivity rate down to just 1.1 percent as COVID deaths breach 50K (Eagle News) – The Philippines’ total active COVID-19 cases went further down to just 11,373 as only 356 new cases were reported on Saturday, December 11, with new recoveries reaching 878 or more than double the new cases. According to the Department of Health (DOH), the country’s positivity rate has also gone down to just 1.1 percent, a new record low. The […]
(Eagle News) — All passports which were scheduled for release before December 2020 but remain unclaimed on January 10, 2022 will be cancelled and disposed of. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of Consular Affairs, this was in accordance with DFA Department Order No. 2021-012 on the Disposal of Unclaimed and Spoiled Passports. The department said those who have yet to claim their passports, which were scheduled for release in December 2020 or earlier, […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad rose to 24,222 after the Department of Foreign Affairs reported 32 additional cases. According to the DFA, 50 additional recoveries also pushed the total recoveries among Filipinos abroad to 14356. Five additional deaths led to an increase in the total number of deaths, now at 1443. According to the DFA, the Middle East and Africa are the regions with the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and deaths, among […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that Portugal will be added to the Philippines’ “Red List” of countries and territories effective Sunday, December 12, as more European countries are affected by the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The inclusion of Portugal to the Philippines’ Red List came shortly after France was also included in the list. The countries now included in the Philippines’ Red List are South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mozambique, Austria, Czech […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,836,200 after the Department of Health reported 379 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 11905 were active. Of these, 757 were asymptomatic, 4860 were mild, 3797 moderate, 2060 were severe, and 431 were critical. Recoveries rose to 2774334 with the addition of 631 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 49961 with the additional 25 deaths. Metro Manila is under […]
2 more being tracked (Eagle News) — The Department of Health has located five more of the eight travelers from South Africa who entered the Philippines before a travel ban was implemented amid the Omicron threat and which the government initially said it had been unable to track for RT-PCR testing. With the development, the number of travelers the DOH is still trying to locate is down to two. Before the five were located, the […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,835,966 after the Department of Health reported 562 additional cases. The additional cases are an increase from the previous 300 plus cases reported in recent days. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 12169 are active. Of these, 851 were asymptomatic, 4838 mild, 3857 were moderate, 2177 severe, and 466 were critical. Recoveries rose to 2,773,891 with the additional 882 recoveries. The COVID-19 death […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has declared the Anti-Terrorism Law as constitutional except for two parts. In an advisory, the SC’s Public Information Office said the High Court, voting 12-3, struck down, in particular, Section 4’s qualifier clause “…which are not intended to cause death or serious physical harm to a person, to endanger a person’s life, or to create a serious risk to public safety.” The PIO said the en banc had ruled […]
(Eagle News) — Filipino and foreign diplomats from countries included in the Philippines’ “red list” are exempted from the travel ban. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said this exemption was adopted under a resolution issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) last November 25. Morente said this was also reiterated by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to different departments and agencies last December 2. According to Morente, the exemption particularly […]
