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(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Sunday, Jan. 9, began conducting weapons checks in strategic points in the country as the gun ban that marked the official start of the election period for the May 2022 polls took effect. According to the PNP, the checkpoint operations for that purpose began at midnight and will continue 150 days after. The PNP said the checkpoints for weapons checks may be the same as the Quarantine […]
by Christopher RICKLETON As protesters armed with sticks and discarded police shields prepared to storm the mayor’s office in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, they marched to chants of “old man out!” They were not referring to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 68, but Nursultan Nazarbayev, the octogenarian who after more than a quarter-century in office picked career diplomat Tokayev as his loyalist successor in 2019. Since Kazakhstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Nazarbayev has been […]
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake hit at a depth of 19 kilometres (12 miles) at 0205 GMT in the Solomon Sea, around 200 km off the southern coast of New Britain island, according to the USGS. There were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings. Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, which is a hotspot […]
Five days of quarantine for fully vaccinated health care workers due to increasing number of hospital cases (Eagle News) — The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) has approved shorter quarantine period — down to five days — for fully vaccinated health care workers, and home isolation for COVID-19 infected individuals who are either mild or asymptomatic, according to Malacanang. This is in view of increasing health care utilization rate in the country as more and […]
(Eagle News) — The operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ consular service sites in SM Megamall and Tuguegarao City have been suspended. The DFA said the suspension was part of the department’s “precautionary measures” against the spread of COVID-19 amid the steep rise in cases. The department did not say when the consular offices would resume operations. It said, however, that affected applicants at the Megamall office may proceed to the consular office in […]
https://youtu.be/BgxmhTHnvbQ by Lucie AUBOURG The most powerful space telescope ever built completed a tricky two-week-long deployment phase Saturday, unfolding its final golden mirror panel, as it readies to study every phase of cosmic history. Engineering teams in the James Webb Space Telescope’s control room cheered as confirmation came back that its final wing was deployed and latched into place. “I’m emotional about it — what an amazing milestone,” Thomas Zurbuchen, a senior NASA engineer, said […]
At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said Saturday. Rescue teams including a dive squad and members of the Brazilian Navy rushed to Furnas Lake in Minas Gerais state, where panicked tourists had watched helplessly as a large rock fragment broke off a ravine and plunged atop three boats. The latest official toll is “seven dead and three […]
World number one Novak Djokovic has languished in a Melbourne detention centre since Thursday morning after having his Australian visa cancelled over his Covid-19 vaccine status. The 34-year-old, who is hoping to defend his Australian Open title and win a record 21st Grand Slam title, faces being deported if he loses a court appeal scheduled for Monday. AFP looks at how the drama, which has reverberated around the world, has unfolded: Tuesday, January 4 — […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among police personnel rose to 43288 on Sunday, Jan. 9, after the Philippine National Police reported 240 additional cases. According to the PNP, of the total cases, 1455 were active. Ten more police personnel have recovered, pushing the total PNP COVID-19 recovery tally to 41708. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 125. The Department of Health has warned of an “exponential” increase […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains, in particular, are expected in Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley as the northeast monsoon affects Northern Luzon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has directed all barangay captains to restrain unvaccinated persons from going out of their homes amid the spike in COVID-19 cases in the country, saying that unvaccinated persons could spread the disease if “contaminated.” The President said that unvaccinated persons who refuse to stay at home could be “detained.” “That is my position and I continue to — I’m now giving orders to the barangay captain to look […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,936,875 on Saturday, Jan. 8, after the Department of Health reported 26,458 additional cases. This is an increase from the 21,819 additional cases reported on Friday, Jan. 7. According to the DOH, all labs were operational on January 6, 2022 while six labs did not submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. Of the total cases, 102,017 were active. Of the active cases, the […]
