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(Eagle News) — Several senators on Monday, March 9, asked the Supreme Court to declare that the withdrawal from a treaty or an international agreement requires the concurrence of 2/3 of all members of the upper chamber for it to be valid. In the petition for declaratory relief and mandamus personally filed by Senate President Tito Sotto, Senator Richard Gordon, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and Senator Panfilo Lacson before the Supreme Court, the senators […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Security Group will implement a “no-touch policy” on President Rodrigo Duterte as a safeguard against the novel coronavirus. Col. Jesus Durante III, PSG commander, added in a statement personalities expected to get near the President “especially during meetings and events will be thoroughly screened and tested for any illness related” to COVID-19. “These include PSG personnel, politicians, and dignitaries,” he said. He said large crowd gatherings with the President as guest of […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said that it has conducted “medical evacuation” of an injured Filipino crew member of M/V Quantum of the Seas, one of the world’s largest cruise ships, which docked in Manila Bay on Sunday, March 8, due to an emergency in its boiler room. The Coast Guard however clarified that no passengers from the cruise ship disembarked. The declaration was made amid the rising COVID-19 cases in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has already signed the proclamation declaring the state of public health emergency in the country after the Department of Health confirmed four new coronavirus cases, raising the confirmed infections to 10. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, on Monday, March 9, 2020, read Proclamation No. 922 declaring a “state of public health emergency throughout the Philippines”. In a Malacanang press briefing, Panelo said that the order was signed by the […]
(Eagle News)–Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said this was due to the easterlies affecting the country. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. PAGASA said the Northern section of Luzon and the eastern section of the country will have moderate to strong winds and moderate to rough coastal waters. The […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday, March 8, confirmed that a fourth Filipino in Hong Kong tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay said the Filipino is in a Hong Kong quarantine facility for treatment despite being asymptomatic. Earlier, the Department of Foreign Affairs said three Filipinos in Hong Kong were confirmed to have COVID-19. Two of them have recovered while the third was asymptomatic and healthy.
(Eagle News)–The Department of Health announced on Sunday, March 8, four new confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the country, bringing the total to ten. In a statement, the DOH said the seventh case was a 38-year-old Taiwanese male, the eighth a 32-year-old Filipino male with history of travel to Japan within the last 14 days, the 9th an 86-year-old American male with pre-existing hypertension and history of travel to USA and South Korea, and the […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte can only declare a public health emergency if the novel coronavirus is a threat to national security. This is according to Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon who gave a radio interview a day after the President approved the Department of Health recommendation following the confirmation of the country’s first local transmission of the virus. According to Drilon, the declaration “will facilitate mobilization of resources and ease processes, including procurement of critical […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has agreed to issue a declaration of a State of Public Health Emergency following the recommendation of the Department of Health due to the confirmed cases of local transmission of the novel 2019 coronavirus disease on Saturday, March 7. This was according to Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, the President’s former aide. “Pursuant to the recommendation of the DOH and my suggestion as Chair of the Senate Committee on […]
(Eagle News) — Police Major Gen. Jose Ma. Victor “Jovic” Ramos, the Philippine National Police director for comptrollership, is still fighting for his life and in critical condition as he is being resuscitated by doctors after sustaining injuries from a helicopter crash, according to the PNP. A general with the family clarified that Ramos is still being treated at the Asian Hospital where he was transferred early this morning. PNP acting spokesperson Gen. Benigno […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Saturday, March 7, confirmed the sixth case of the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country — the wife of the fifth COVID-19 case who has no previous travel history outside the country — and confirmed that there is now a local transmission of the disease. In a press briefing, the sixth case was identified as the 59-year old wife of the 62-year old Filipino […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo on Saturday, March 7, called on the public to remain calm and exercise precautionary measures following the confirmation of two new novel coronavirus cases in the country. “Alam kong marami sa inyo, nangangamba sa mga napapanood at nababasa ninyong balita araw-araw tungkol sa coronavirus disease o COVID-19. May mga dumadagdag pa rin sa listahan ng apektado ng sakit na ito. Pero sa bawat araw na lumilipas, sa pagsisikap ng mga […]
