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(Eagle News)–The NCR Plus area, including Metro Manila, will be under a general community quarantine but with restrictions starting June 1. The government earlier announced the GCQ with restrictions over the bubble, which also includes Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal, would end on June 30. It later clarified, however, that this would only be until June 15. Apart from the NCR Plus area, the following will be under a GCQ, but this time until […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — The international airport of Vietnam’s capital will suspend inbound flights from abroad beginning Tuesday, the country’s aviation body announced, as it grapples with a fresh wave of virus outbreaks. A “temporary suspension of receiving international flights” will begin at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport from June 1 at midnight until June 7, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam said in a statement on Monday. Vietnam’s health minister said over the […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. More than 6,800 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, with the […]
Palace: no serious adverse events reported from those given COVID vaccines so far (Eagle News) – The Philippines received 50,000 more doses of Sputnik V vaccines on Sunday night, May 30, bringing to 80,000 the total doses of the Russian-made vaccine in the country. Malacanang said that the new Sputnik vaccine doses would be given to “centers of gravity” or areas with high concentration of COVID-19 cases. “Ang latest vaccine naman na ito ay […]
(Eagle News) — Signal No. 1 has been raised over several areas as Tropical Storm “Dante” maintained its strength and continued to move northwestward over the Philippine Sea. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the following areas are under the tropical cyclone wind signal: The eastern portion of Northern Samar (Mapanas, Gamay, Lapinig, Palapag, Laoang) the northeastern portion of Eastern Samar (Arteche, San Policarpo) According to PAGASA, today until tomorrow afternoon, light […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Monday relaxed its two-child policy to allow couples to have three children, a shift aimed at tackling an ageing society. Here is a timeline of the country’s evolving family planning policy. – One child – In 1979, China imposed a policy forcing couples to have only one baby, introduced by top leader Deng Xiaoping to curb population growth and boost economic development. The population stood at 969 million […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world’s most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate. For almost 40 years, China enforced a controversial “one-child policy” — one of the strictest family planning regulations worldwide — which was relaxed in 2016 to […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York City is to build a homeless shelter in an expensive Manhattan area known as “Billionaire’s Row” following a lengthy legal battle. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s government announced in 2018 that it planned to turn the former Park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street into a shelter for 150 people. A coalition of residents sued to stop the move, but on Thursday an appeals judge rejected their objections, […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand’s military was deployed to evacuate hundreds of residents from flood-hit areas of the South Island Monday as heavy rains washed away bridges and cut roads. Rivers burst their banks as a weather system dumped 400 millimetres (15.5 inches) of rain in two days, an amount meteorologists said exceeded the entire rainfall so far this year in some areas. Authorities issued a rare “red” weather warning and declared a […]
Shift to a lower quarantine protocol, possibly GCQ, seen in Metro Manila for June (Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 cases continued to increase on Sunday, May 30, with the highest rise in cases occurring in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. New cases added on Sunday were 7,058, bringing the total active cases nationwide to 53,757. This represents 4.4 percent of the total cases of 1,223,627. This is the third straight day that […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Ilocos Sur on Monday, May 31. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 10:48 a.m. It had its epicenter 41 kilometers southwest of Vigan. An instrumental intensity I was felt in Vigan City. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said. The small business jet crashed at around 11:00 am local time on Saturday, shortly after taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook. […]
