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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 427000 mark on Saturday, Nov. 28, after the Department of Health reported over 1,000 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 31402 were active. Of these, 84.6 percent were mild, 8.4 percent asymptomatic, 2.3 percent severe, 4.4 percent critical, and 0.25 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao with 200, Negros Occidental with 123, Western Samar with […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has reminded passengers to secure all the necessary travel and work documents prior to their departure. Bureau Commissioner Jaime Morente issued the reminder after immigration personnel barred five Overseas Filipinos Workers from leaving for Dubai on Nov. 21 for not having the required work or employment visas. The passengers were subjected to secondary inspection after the immigration officers noticed that they were all traveling on tourist visas but […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, Nov. 28: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. The government has eased some restrictions on travel, with domestic flights allowed but subject to the travel requirements of the local government unit covering the area of destination. Filipinos are allowed to go on non-essential outbound travel. The government has allowed more people to enter the country, with […]
Local private firms to buy vaccines and act as donor (Eagle News) — The Philippines has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom to secure 2.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, which will be purchased by top local businessmen for the country. The tripartite agreement was signed by national action plan against COVID=19 Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. who is also the country’s vaccine czar, Presidential Adviser for […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 425,000 mark on Friday, Nov. 27, after the Department of Health reported 1631 additional cases. The DOH said of the total 425918 cases, 30047 were active. Of these, 84.3 percent were mild, 8.3 percent asymptomatic, 4.7 percent critical, 2.5 percent severe, and 0.26 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Quezon City with 116, Rizal with 101, Davao City with […]
(Eagle News) — The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has ordered the consolidation of all data from digital contact tracing applications into a single tracing data repository. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Friday, Nov. 27, StaySafe.ph is the government’s digital contact tracing application of choice and will be made mandatory for adoption and use in all national government agencies and instrumentalities as well as local government units. “Private establishments, […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign spouses of Filipinos and their children will be allowed entry into the country starting Dec. 7. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has also allowed the entry of former Filipino citizens, including their spouses and children traveling with them, regardless of age. Roque said they are required to have a pre-booked quarantine facility and undergo COVID-19 testing at a laboratory operating […]
(Eagle News) — A Quezon City court has convicted Benito and Wilma Tiamzon–believed to be top officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines–of serious illegal detention and kidnapping. Branch 216 Judge Alfonso Ruiz II sentenced the couple to reclusion perpetua or up to 40 years of imprisonment, and ordered them to pay Lt. Abraham Claro Casis P75,000 for moral damages, P75000 as civil indemnity, and P75000 for exemplary damages. The judge said the monetary […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Presidential Adviser on Clark Programs and Projects. The former President will receive an annual salary of P1. In a statement, Arroyo vowed to transform Clark into “Asia’s economic powerhouse in the 2020s.” She noted that “in this time of pandemic and the worst global recession in nearly a century, the rapid harnessing of the Clark-Subic service logistics corridor for jobs, investment and […]
(Eagle News) — Nineteen more Filipinos abroad have tested positive for COVID-19. The Department of Foreign Affairs said with the additional cases, the total COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos rose to 11592 as of Thursday night. Four more have recovered, pushing the recovery total to 7496. No additional fatality was reported, which means the death toll remained at 834. The Middle East and Africa region still had the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries and deaths among […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Nov. 27: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. All passengers were advised to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled. Only those with the confirmation, MIAA had said, would be allowed entry into the airport premises. Domestic flights are allowed subject to the travel requirements imposed by the local government unit […]
Galvez cites supply-demand challenge; need for ultra cold chain storage, distribution (Eagle News) — The Philippine COVID-19 czar said that vaccines for COVID-19 would only be made available by May, June or July next year in a best case scenario because of various challenges including vaccine supply and high demand in the world market. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that vaccines might not still be available this in the first or second quarter of 2021. “Dahil […]
