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More COVID-19 cases with UK and South African variants also detected (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed Saturday, March 13, a new variant of the coronavirus called P.3 which was first found in the Philippines, as it also detected the first case of the Brazilian variant in the country. Because of this, all three highly infectious variants – the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the South African variant (B.1.351 variant) and the Brazilian […]
(Eagle News)–Active COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 56,679 after the Department of Health reported 5,000 additional COVID-19 cases. This is the most additional COVID-19 cases reported in a single day in seven months. Of these, the DOH said 92.3 percent were mild, 4.3 percent asymptomatic, 1.4 percent critical, 1.4 percent severe, and 0.66 percent moderate. Recoveries rose to 547166 including the 281 additional ones. The death toll is now at 12766 including the 72 […]
(Eagle News) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos has reached 15876. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, this was after two new COVID-19 cases were reported. One additional recovery pushed the COVID-19 recoveries among Filipinos abroad to 9554. No additional fatalities were reported, which means the COVID-19 death toll among Filipinos overseas remains at 1041. Based on DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation has filed charges against 11 individuals over the death of flight attendant Christine Dacera. An NBI statement said those charged were Mark Anthony Rosales, Romel Galido, John Pascual Dela Serna III, Darwin Joseph Macalla, Gregorio Angelo Rafael De Guzman, Jezreel Rapinan, Alain Chen, Reymar Englis, Atty. Neptali Maroto, Louie De Lima, and Police Maj. Michael Nick Sarmiento, , medico-legal officer at the Southern Police District. The NBI […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has reported 62 more COVID-19 cases. PNP data showed the additional cases pushed the PNP total active cases to 752. The total number of COVID-19 cases among police personnel is now at 12,063. Forty-nine additional recoveries, the PNP said, prompted an increase in the PNP COVID-19 recovery tally, now at 11,266. On Friday, the PNP announced PNP Chief Debold Sinas had tested positive for COVID-19. It said it […]
(Eagle News) — Japanese health authorities have detected a new COVID-19 variant in a traveler who came from the Philippines. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases said in a bulletin posted on Friday, March 12, that the mutated B.1.1.28 strain, which carries the E484K and N501Y mutations, was collected from the traveler on Feb. 25. “This variant isolate also has the P681H mutation in the spike protein as with B.1.1.7 lineage (VOC-202012/01) which is suggested […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines reported 4,578 additional cases today, March 12, the country’s new record high of additional COVID-19 cases in a single day in six months. Based on Department of Health data, the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 active cases in the Philippines to 52,012. It said eight duplicate cases were removed from the total case count of 611,618. Twenty-six cases that were tagged as recovered were reclassified as deaths. Of the active […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has begun its contact tracing after PNP Chief Debold Sinas tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, PNP officer-in-charge, said he instructed Health Service personnel to subject to a heath assessment the PNP personnel who went near Sinas when he visited several police units from March 9 to 11. He said the PNP has also coordinated for the contact tracing of all those who […]
(Eagle News) — The police will be deployed to enforce the common curfew Metro Manila mayors agreed on on Thursday night amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, Paranaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Friday, March 12. In a televised briefing, Olivarez, also the Metro Manila Council chair, said border checks would take place once the common curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starts on Monday, March 15. Olivarez said violators would be penalized, based […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police deputy chief for administration Police Lt. Guillermo Eleazar is now the national police force’s officer-in-charge. PNP Chief Debold Sinas designated Eleazar to the post after he tested positive for COVID-19. The PNP has said Sinas was asymptomatic and was in good condition. “As OIC PNP, I will be taking over the affairs of the PNP temporarily and until such time that our Chief PNP fully recovers,” Eleazar said in […]
(Eagle News) — The 17 mayors of Metro Manila have agreed to impose a common curfew following the surge in COVID-19 cases. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Benhur Abalos said the curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. will start on Monday, March 15, and will last for two weeks. The development came after the Department of the Interior and Local Government urged local government units in the National Capital Region to adopt a common […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Debold Sinas has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the PNP said Sinas took three swab tests on different occasions, and his third test, the one he took on March 11, was the one that tested positive. The PNP said Sinas would submit himself to the Kiangan treatment facilities. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The OCTA research group has noted an […]
