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Immigration bureau: Foreigners traveling without their Filipino kin can’t enter PHL during travel ban

(Eagle News) — Foreigners can’t enter the Philippines without their Filipino kin during the travel ban. The Bureau of Immigration issued the clarification following reports some foreign nationals  were denied entry at the airports for attempting to come to the country without their Filipino spouse, children, or parent. According to Bureau Commissioner Jaime Morente, existing guidelines on international travel set by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases do not allow […]

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PNP reports 194 more COVID-19 cases

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has reported almost 200 additional COVID-19 cases. According to PNP data released on Thursday, April 8,  the additional 194 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 16614. Of these, 2596 were active. Over 100, or 142, more police personnel have recovered, pushing the PNP COVID-19 recovery total to 13978. Among the PNP personnel who tested positive for COVID-19 was PNP Chief Debold Sinas. Sinas has designated Lt. Gen. […]

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DOTr: Conversion of two COVID-19 quarantine facilities into treatment facilities to help decongest hospitals underway

(Eagle News) — The Department of Transportation and the Philippine Ports Authority have begun the conversion of two managed quarantine facilities into isolation facilities for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. In a statement, the DOTr said the conversion of the Eva Macapagal Super Terminal in Pier 15, Manila and the Port of Capinpin Quarantine Facility in Orion, Bataan was in response to the “urgent need of hospitals and other medical facilities, which are now full […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Thursday, April 8

(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Thursday, April 8: Flight schedules may change any given time. MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. On March 28, the Palace said NCR Plus, which covers Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, and Rizal, would revert to an enhanced community quarantine, the strictest form […]

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Cloudy skies, isolated rains expected today

(Eagle News) — The northeasterly wind flow is affecting Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, as result, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Visayas and Mindanao, on the other hand, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers, this time due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. According […]

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Palace cancels Pres. Duterte’s “Talk to the Nation,” other activities as PSG reports 45 active COVID cases

Pres. Duterte “safe, in good health”; 45 PSG men who tested positive mostly assigned in Palace gates, says PSG chief   (Eagle News) – Malacanang cancelled the scheduled “Talk to the Nation” of President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night, April 7, amid reports that at least 45 members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) had tested positive for COVID-19. “The Palace confirms that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will not have a Talk to the People […]

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79 blood clots, 19 deaths in UK after taking AstraZeneca jab: regulator

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — There have been 79 cases of rare blood clots, resulting in 19 deaths, in people receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Britain, the country’s medicines regulator said Wednesday. “By the 31st of March over 20 million doses having been given, we have had 79 cases reported. Of the 79 cases, 19 people have sadly died,” June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), told a briefing. […]

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Amnesty condemns rich world’s ‘near-monopoly’ on Covid vaccines

by Martine PAUWELS LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Richer countries are failing a “rudimentary” test of global solidarity by hoarding Covid vaccines, Amnesty International said Wednesday as it accused China and others of exploiting the pandemic to undermine human rights. In its annual report, the campaigning rights organisation said the health crisis had exposed “broken” policies and that cooperation was the only way forward. “The pandemic has cast a harsh light on the world’s inability […]

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Germany’s Bavaria plans to buy Sputnik vaccine

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s Bavaria region has signed a provisional agreement to buy doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine once it is approved by European regulators, state premier Markus Soeder said Wednesday. The southern state has “signed a memorandum of understanding today… for the supply of Sputnik,” Soeder told reporters in Munich. If the Sputnik vaccine is approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Bavaria is set to receive around 2.5 million doses […]

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Indonesia readies hospital ships for cyclone survivors

by Handrianus Emanuel LEMBATA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s navy readied hospital ships Wednesday to help treat injured survivors of a cyclone that has killed about 160 in the archipelago and neighboring East Timor, as fears grow over coronavirus outbreaks in cramped evacuation shelters. Helicopters were also dropping food and other essentials into remote villages, while sniffer dogs were deployed to search for the dozens still missing after weekend floods and landslides devastated the Southeast Asian […]

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Iceland volcano unleashes third lava stream

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AFP) — Lava is flowing from a third fissure that opened overnight in Iceland’s nearly three-week-old volcanic eruption near the capital Reykjavik, officials said Wednesday. The spectacular eruption began on March 19 when a first fissure disgorged a steady stream of lava, flowing into the Geldingadalir valley of Mount Fagradalsfjall on Iceland’s southwestern tip. The new split comes two days after two fissures opened around 700 metres (yards) from the initial eruption, creating […]

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Australia blames EU supply issues for slow vaccine rollout

  SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s prime minister on Wednesday blamed restricted vaccine supply from Europe for his country’s halting coronavirus inoculation efforts, as he faced growing public frustration over the sluggish rollout. Scott Morrison said vaccine shortages and “strict export controls” introduced by the European Commission meant Australia received just 700,000 of a contracted 3.8 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. His government, which received global praise for successfully containing Australia’s coronavirus outbreak, has […]

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