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by Bhuvan Bagga with Sailendra Sil in Kolkata Agence France Presse NEL DELHI, India (AFP) — New Delhi led major cities across India into a weekend lockdown Saturday as the country confronts a fierce new coronavirus wave, with more than 230,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds. Hopes that South Asia might have beaten the pandemic have been dashed with India seeing over two million new cases this month […]
Heavy rains forecast starting Sunday, April 18 (Eagle News) — Catanduanes in Luzon, and Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar in Visayas were placed under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 2 on Saturday at 5 p.m., as typhoon “Bising” (international name Surigae) slighly accelerated while moving west northwestward over the Philippine Sea. At 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17, the eye of typhoon Bising was at 460 kilometers east of Guian, Eastern Samar, moving west […]
(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 926052 on Saturday, April 17, after the Department of Health reported 11101 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 203710 were active. Of these, 96 percent were mild, 2.9 percent asymptomatic, 0.5 percent severe, 0.4 percent critical, and 0.29 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 706532,including the additional 799 ones. The death toll is now at 15810,with the additional 72 deaths. The Philippines vaccination drive is […]
by Paula RAMON Agence France Presse SAO Paulo, Brazil (AFP) — In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo’s largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can’t remember performing more than 10 night burials. But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept across Brazil, that exception has become the rule. The vertiginous rise in deaths in Sao Paulo in recent months has forced the mayor of the country’s richest and most populous city […]
Duterte: “We’ll have to go through the worst of times” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned the public that things could get worse before it gets better, saying there would be more COVID-19 deaths as vaccine supplies are not enough and the COVID-19 variants that have mutated still continue to infect thousands. “Sabihin ko sa iyo marami pang mamamatay dito. Hindi ko lang maturo kung sino,” President Duterte said in his Talk To […]
(Eagle News)–More areas are under Signal No. 1 as Typhoon “Bising” slightly intensified while moving northwest over the Philippine Sea. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, in its 11 a.m. advisory, said the tropical cyclone warning signal is hoisted over the following areas: Luzon Sorsogon Albay the eastern portion of Camarines Sur (Siruma, Goa, Ocampo, Tigaon, Sagnay, Baao, Nabua, Bato, Iriga City, Buhi, Tinambac, Lagonoy, San Jose, Garchitorena, Presentacion, Caramoan) Ticao Island Catanduanes […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Sao Paulo will allow businesses and places of worship to reopen from Sunday, the government of Brazil’s most populous state announced, even as the coronavirus infection rate remains high. The state of 46 million people will enter a “transition phase” that will next see restaurants, beauty salons, cinemas and theaters reopen from April 24, it said on Friday. From Sunday, shops can open from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm, […]
(Eagle News) — The chief of the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan has ordered an extension of the quarantine period of all prison personnel. A statement from the Bureau of Corrections, which supervises the facility, said IPPF chief Chief Supt. Raul Levita gave the order for the one more week of strict quarantine starting April 14 to 21 for the completion of the mandatory 21-day quarantine for suspected COVID-19 patients. Levita […]
(Eagle News) — Active COVID-19 cases among rail line personnel are over 700, recent data on the ongoing mass testing from the Department of Transportation showed. According to the DOTr, the breakdown of the 739 total active COVID-19 cases is as follows: Light Rail Transit-1: 79 active COVID-19 cases LRT-2: 242 active COVID-19 cases Metro Rail Transit-3: 204 active COVID-19 cases Philippine National Railways: 214 active COVID-19 cases So far, 5,331 rail line personnel have […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 more Filipinos abroad have tested positive for COVID-19. Data released by the Department of Foreign Affairs recently said the additional 126 COVID-19 cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos to 18,134. One hundred additional recoveries also pushed the total number of recoveries to 11,142. According to the DFA data, COVID-19 deaths among Filipinos abroad have reached 1,115, with the addition of two deaths. The Middle East and Africa are […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities have arrested an American national wanted for crimes in his country in Bohol. Bureau commissioner Jaime Morente said Michael Dennis Hartsock, 71, who had a 10-year old warrant of arrest issued by the San Joaquin County Superior Criminal Court in California against him, was nabbed by operatives of the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit in coordination with the National Bureau of on April 14 in Barangay Ubojan, Loon. Hartsock, the bureau said […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities destroyed P8.6 million worth of marijuana in Kalinga. According to the Philippine National Police, the PNP and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency destroyed the 43,000 fully-grown marijuana plants and 400 grams of cannabis products in four plantation sites in Kalinga in a three-day marijuana eradication operation from April 12 to 14. The PNP said the plantation sites were located in four plantation sites in Barangay Ngibat, Tinglayan. The breakdown of the […]
