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(Eagle News) – Philippine Airlines, AirAsia Philippines, and Cebu Pacific have cancelled domestic and international flights until April in view of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine. In an advisory, PAL said that all of its domestic flights will be cancelled starting March 17 until April 12, 2020, while international flights will continue until midnight of March 19, 2020. “We will announce in due course the status of our international flights from March 20 up […]
(Eagle News)- Another employee of the House of Representatives’ Printing Service has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a statement issued on Tuesday, March 17, House Secretary General Atty. Luis Montales said that the employee last reported for work on March 5, went on leave on March 6, and was admitted to the hospital on March 7 where he was initially diagnosed with dengue. “The doctors later tested him for COVID-19 on […]
(Eagle News) — Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano has ordered a “lockdown” of Taguig City as a precaution against the 2019 coronavirus disease. In a post on its official Facebook page, Taguig said the “lockdown” was “for the safety of our citizens and stakeholders” and to help contain the spread of the disease. Effective midnight, Taguig said only the delivery of basic goods and supplies will be allowed. “The Local Government assures the people of Taguig […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has sustained community transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019, a Department of Health official said on Tuesday, March 17. “Yung ibang mga kaso wala na siyang relasyon sa ibang kaso,” Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a television interview. According to Vergeire, many of those with the virus were 29 years old to 59 years, the working age group. Almost 30 to 35 percent, she said, had mild symptoms, and […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Sherwin Gatchalian tested negative for the 2019 coronavirus disease. “After submitting myself to a COVID-19 test last Friday, I’m happy to hear from the pronouncements made by Health Secretary Francisco Duque just this morning that I tested negative for the disease,” Gatchalian said. According to Gatchalian, this was based on tests done on him by the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine. Gatchalian underwent tests after one of the resource persons at a […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte visited early Tuesday, March 17, a checkpoint along MacArthur Highway, Presidential Security Group Jesus Durante III said. A picture from Durante showed the President talking to soldiers manning the checkpoint at 4 a.m. Earlier, President Duterte said “lalabas ako” after announcing an enhanced community quarantine on Luzon in a bid to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease. He said members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of […]
(Eagle News) – Only two confirmed coronavirus cases—one of them a Philippine senator- were added on Monday, March 16, the first working day of a supposed community quarantine in Metro Manila that was later updated to a stricter enhanced community quarantine for the whole of Luzon. The Department of Health said that the two new confirmed cases included Philippine senator Juan Miguel Zubiri who also went public on television Monday night to say that […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte visited early Tuesday, March 17, a checkpoint along MacArthur Highway, Presidential Security Group Jesus Durante III said. A picture from Durante showed the President talking to soldiers manning the checkpoint at 4 a.m. Earlier, President Duterte said “lalabas ako” after announcing an enhanced community quarantine on Luzon in a bid to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease. He said members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of […]
(Eagle News)–The government on Monday, March 16, said the number of people purchasing basic necessities outside the house during the enhanced community quarantine should also be limited. “May isang tao sa bawat household ang puwedeng bumili at umuwi para malimitahan lang natin ang labas-pasok,” Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said. According to Nograles, private cars may be used provided that the trip is only for essential purposes. Nograles said based on the guidelines on the enhanced […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte tasked all local government officials – from mayors down to the barangay officials – to send out food to their constituents who are affected by the Luzon-wide month-long enhanced community quarantine that took effect Tuesday, March 17, 2020. “The barangay captains should call a number and at least food, rice and some — yung ulam pwede ninyong ibigay sana para sa ating mga kababayan,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in […]
PHL records two additional COVID-19 cases recorded, bringing number to 142 (Eagle News)–The Department of Health has announced the recovery of the first Filipino 2019 coronavirus disease case. In a statement, the DOH said patient 14, a 46-year-old male who was admitted on March 5 in Makati Medical Center and tested positive on March 9, now tested negative for COVID-19. He had started exhibiting symptoms on Feb. 25. He is now asymptomatic. The DOH reported […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern and Central Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Bicol Region, Aurora, Quezon, Marinduque and Oriental Mindoro will have cloudy skies with light rains as a result. PAGASA said Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon on the other hand will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Visayas and Mindanao, PAGASA said, woll have partly cloudy […]
