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(Eagle News) — Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., has filed a motion for reconsideration seeking to reverse an earlier decision of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal that dismissed his poll protest against Vice-President Leni Robredo. The decision of the Supreme Court sitting as the PET was handed down in February. In his 96-page motion dated May 6, Marcos asked the tribunal to reconsider its ruling on Feb. 16, and proceed with his third cause of […]
4,734 new cases, 7,837 new recoveries posted; Total recoveries reach 1,038,175 (Eagle News) – The number of new COVID-19 infections dropped to 4,734 on Tuesday, May 11, bringing the percentage of active cases to just 5.1 percent. Total active cases reached 56,752 while total recoveries were 1,038,175 or 93.2 percent of total cases. New recoveries added were 7,837. Total COVID-19 cases reached 1,113,547. According to the Department of Health, most of the active cases […]
(Eagle News) — Eleven crew members of the MV Athens Bridge tested positive for COVID-19. The Department of Health’s Epidemiology Bureau director Dr. Alethea De Guzman said this was based on a repeat swab test on 12 crew members of the vessel that docked in Manila from India recently. Earlier, the Maritime Industry Authority said the vessel had 21 crew members. Of the 12 who were swabbed again, De Guzman said one “needs to be […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government is confident that the vaccination for the general population can start by end of June or July once vaccine doses that have been delivered to the country reached 25 million. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that by June, the vaccine deliveries would have reached 20.5 million doses as more doses from Pfizer, Sinovac, Sputnik, AstraZeneca would have arrived by then, including the first batch of the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health confirmed the presence of two cases of the so-called Indian variant in the country, or the variant B.1.617. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire announced this in a press briefing on Tuesday, May 11. “Nais po nating ipaalam sa publiko na tayo po ay may natukoy na dalawang kaso na may sinabing variant (We’d like to inform the public that we have identified two cases with the said variant),” […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines’ Gross Domestic Product shrank by 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2021. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, this is less compared to the 8.3 percent shrinking of the Philippine GDP in the fourth quarter. The PSA said the contributors to the decline were the following industries: Construction: -24.2 percent Other Services: -38.0 percent Real Estate and Ownership of Dwellings: -13.2 percent The following industries, on the other hand, […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has reminded airlines to ensure that only foreigners currently allowed to enter the country are allowed to board flights bound for the Philippines. In a statement, bureau commissioner Jaime Morente said it is the responsibility of the airlines to ensure that the foreigners who arrive in the Philippines are allowed to enter under the latest resolution of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases […]
(Eagle News) — People who will be caught not wearing face masks will be given one. Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar added violators of the ordinance on the mandatory wearing of face masks will not be jailed but will be booked and investigated. Eleazar said violators can be held for a maximum of 12 hours while undergoing investigation and booking procedure. During such time, we will provide them face masks to protect our own […]
Pfizer doses to be distributed to Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, other major cities that can handle jab’s -70 °C storage requirement (Eagle News) — The initial 193,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country on Friday night, May 10. This was part of the first batch of a total of 1.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccines from the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility expected this month, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., […]
New cases added on Monday were 6,846, new recoveries at 8,193 (Eagle News) — The Philippines added 6,846 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, May 10, bringing to 1,108,826 the total COVID-19 cases in the country. Most of these cases however are recoveries at 92.9 percent. Total recoveries have in fact reached 1,030,367, with the addition of 8,193 new recoveries. Active cases with a total of 59,897 accounted for only 5.4 percent of total cases. Most […]
(Eagle News) — Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año directed all local government chief executives to strictly enforce the prohibition or limitation of mass gatherings under the different community quarantine classifications amid the continuing rise in COVID-19 infections in the country. Año said that local officials who have failed on this would “face sanctions for dereliction of duty.” The Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) directive came after President Rodrigo Duterte expressed […]
(Eagle News) – Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said that some 1.3 million doses of Pfizer are expected to arrive within the month, with the initial 193,000 initial rollout expected to arrive this week, possibly today, May 10, or tomorrow, May 11. Galvez reported this to President Rodrigo Duterte last week. He said that the Pfizer doses were part of the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility. He said that the country is also […]
