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167 Filipinos from Macau to be repatriated today

(Eagle News)–Over 100 Filipinos will be repatriated from Macau on Saturday, March 7. The government said the 167 Filipinos–composed of 137 undocumented and irregular Filipino workers and 30 personnel from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration–were among those stranded when travel restrictions were imposed amid the threat of the novel coronavirus. The Philippines has imposed a travel ban on  China, Macau, Hong Kong, among other places as protective measures. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the […]

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Palace calls for calm amid confirmation of two new COVID-19 cases

Gives assurance gov’t is doing its job (Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, March 7, called on the public to be calm,  refrain from sharing unverified information, and exercise protective measures against  the novel coronavirus. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the Department of Health confirmed two more COVID-19 cases in the country. One was a 48-year-old Filipino male with a travel history from Japan and the other, a 62-year-old Filipino male in San […]

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Task Group na nag-iimbestiga sa PNP helicopter crash, nag-ocular inspection sa crash site sa Laguna

https://youtu.be/sGYFfVRJb-k   Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Pinangunahan ni Deputy Chief for Operations Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar na tumatayong commander ng Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) “Bell 429” ang ocular inspection sa crash site sa Laperal Compound sa San Pedro Laguna. Kasama nya si Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) director Police Major Gen. Elmo Francis Sarona mga imbestigador ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), at Aviation Security […]

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5 DOH teams formed to trace contacts of 2 Filipinos, 3 foreign tourists with COVID-19; local transmission feared

  (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, March 6, formed five separate teams to do extensive contact tracing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after it has confirmed two more positive cases, including a Filipino who has no travel history outside the country. Aside from the contact tracing for the two Filipinos with COVID-19, the DOH teams will also trace the persons who may have had contact with three foreign nationals – a […]

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PHL gov’t ready to repatriate Filipinos on board cruise ship off California coast

(Eagle News) — The Philippine government is ready to repatriate the around 500 Filipinos who were stranded off California in the United States amid novel coronavirus fears. So far, though, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said no request for the repatriation of the Filipinos on board the Grand Princess cruise ship had been made. The cruise ship, which was quarantined after one of its passengers died due to COVID-19, carried an estimated 3500 people. “Kung hinihingi […]

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Palace after PHL registers two new COVID-19 cases: No need for alarm

(Eagle News) –No need for alarm. This was the reaction of the Palace on Friday. March 6, following the Department of Health’s announcement two more novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the country. According to the DOH,  one was a 48-year-old male Filipino with travel history to Japan, while the other was  a 62-year-old male Filipino in San Juan City, who had no travel history, prompting the agency to say a local transmission was […]

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UPDATED: PHL records two new confirmed COVID-19 cases

  (Eagle News)–The Philippines has recorded two more  cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to five. The Department of Health also noted that two of the three foreign nationals who were confirmed to have COVID-19 and who were reported to have a travel history to the Philippines may have contracted the disease somewhere else. In a press briefing on Friday, March 6, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the Philippines’ […]

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DOH points to possible local transmission of COVID-19 after announcing fifth positive case in PHL

  (Eagle News) – The persons confirmed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines have now gone up to five after the positive test results on two additional cases, the fifth being a Filipino who had no travel history outside the country, the Department of Health announced on Friday, March 6. The latest development is significant because the fifth case, a 62-year old male Filipino who tested positive with COVID-19 on March 5, […]

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AFP, tiniyak na walang aktibong military personnel na sangkot sa pagpasok sa PHL ng ‘dirty money’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OxTMfU1E9k     Ni Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News)- Itinanggi ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ang mga ulat na mayroon itong mga aktibong tauhan na umaakto bilang escort para makapasok sa bansa ang “dirty money” na nagkakahalaga ng bilyun-bilyong piso. Sa isang forum sa Maynila, sinabi ni AFP Spokesperson Brigadier General Edgard Arevalo na nakipag-ugnayan na sila sa Department of Finance (DOF) at Bureau of Customs (BOC) para linawin ang isyu. […]

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SWS: President Duterte admin gets excellent net satisfaction rating, 81% of Filipinos satisfied with gov’t

(Eagle News)–The net satisfaction rating of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government climbed up to an excellent in December, with 81 percent of Filipinos satisfied with its performance, the Social Weather Stations said. According to the SWS,   based on the December 13 to 16, 2019 survey, the +73 net satisfaction rating, with only 12% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 7% dissatisfied,  was up by  6 points from the very good +67 the administration got in September 2019. […]

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Taiwanese nat’l who visited the PHL from Feb 28 to March 3 confirmed with COVID-19 upon testing in Taiwan

  (Eagle News) A Taiwanese national who travelled to the Philippines with his friends from Feb. 28 to March 3 was found to be positive with the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) when he came back to Taiwan. This was according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. In a statement, it said that the over 30-year old Taiwanese national, which it referred to as Case #44, resides in northern Taiwan but came to the […]

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Pangulong Duterte, isinasapinal ang listahan ng sisibaking immigration officials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjPs8gyAWAQ   (Eagle News) – Isinasapinal na umano ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang listahan ng mga opisyal ng Bureau of Immigration (BI) na kanyang sisibakin sa pwesto dahil sa umano’y pagkakasangkot sa pastillas scheme sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Sinabi ito ng Pangulo sa kaniyang talumpati sa panunumpa ng mga bagong talagang opisyal ng gobyerno sa Malacanang Palace. Nagpahayag din ng pagkadismaya ang Pangulo dahil ilan aniya sa mga opisyal na nasa kaniyang listahan […]

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