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(Eagle News) –The Philippine National Police has reported over 300 additional COVID-19 cases. According to PNP data released on Saturday, March 27, the additional 316 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 14,110. Of these, 1951 were active. Over 100, or 115, additional recoveries were reported, pushing the PNP COVID-19 recovery total to 12,123. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 36. The Philippines is currently dealing with […]
(Eagle News)– Over 300 volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Taal in 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the 302 volcanic quakes at the volcano, which remains on alert level 2, included 184 episodes of volcanic tremor with durations of one to 12 minutes, and 118 low-frequency volcanic earthquakes. PHIVOLCS said activity at the main crater consisted of a weak emission of steam-laden plumes. Sulfur dioxide emission averaged 925 tons yesterday, March […]
(Eagle News) — Day-to-day weather in the country is expected to gradually get warmer with the start of the dry season, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, this was after the termination of the northeast monsoon, which is signaled by the “gradual shift of wind direction from the northeasterly to easterly over most parts of the country due to the formation of the High Pressure Area over the Northwestern […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, March 27: The Philippines imposed travel restrictions anew amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, with foreigners, with exceptions, not allowed entry until April 19. It also reduced the number of travelers allowed in a day in the country to 1,500, prompting some airlines to cancel flights in compliance with the reduction. On Thursday night, Philippine Airlines announced the cancellation of additional […]
by Joseph BOYLE with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse Health officials have rolled out more than 510 million coronavirus vaccine doses around the world, but with big gaps between countries the WHO on Friday appealed to richer nations to donate vaccines to help poorer ones start inoculations. Despite the huge effort to get jabs into arms, the pandemic is still surging in Europe and Latin America — where Brazil has now passed 300,000 deaths and […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil set a new daily Covid-19 death toll record of 3,650 on Friday, the health ministry said, as the pandemic spins out of control in Latin America’s largest economy. Since February, Brazil has seen record after record in fatalities and new cases of infection as the country second hardest hit anywhere in the world, after the United States, with more than 307,000 dead from the pandemic. It broke through the […]
Also prioritizes degree programs related to medical, health fields (Eagle News) – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is allowing 24 higher education institutions (HEIs) all over the country to “hold limited face-to-face classes” and also selected degree programs prioritized for limited face to face classes effective the second semester of school year 2020-2021. CHED came out a list of the 24 schools, seven of which are located in Metro Manila or the National […]
In celebration of International Women’s Month, Globe myBusiness conducted a series of activities that honor, inspire and empower women entrepreneurs that include social activation promotions and learning sessions for SMEs. Globe myBusiness “celebrates the achievements of women-led SMEs, Filipina entrepreneurs, their visibility in the new future and taps inspirational SMEs that chose to innovate their business in spite of the uncertainties of 2020.” SMEs were invited to be creative and post on their social […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The world’s response to the Myanmar crisis has been too sluggish and far from tough enough to prevent further deterioration, the UN expert on rights in the country said Thursday. Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, called for an emergency summit to sharpen the response and said it should include the southeast Asian country’s neighbours and global powers. Myanmar’s military has unleashed a deadly […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases breached the 702,000 mark on Friday, March 26, after the Department of Health reported 9,838 additional cases, an all-time high in the country since the pandemic began. According to DOH data, the additional COVID-19 cases pushed the COVID-19 total to 702,856, and active COVID-19 cases to 109,018. Of the active cases, 95.1 percent were mild, 3.0 percent asymptomatic, 0.7 percent critical, 0.8 percent severe, and 0.42 percent were moderate. […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has allowed the holding of once-a-day religious gatherings in the General Community Quarantine areas of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, from April 1 to April 4 at a limited 10 percent seating capacity, Malacanang said on Monday, March 26. There are however additional restrictions as contained in Resolution No. 105 of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The resolution was issued, among […]
(Eagle News) — The Metro Rail Transit-3 management will deploy buses for commuters affected by the temporary shutdown of MRT-3 operations for maintenance and rehabilitation activities. In an advisory, the MRT-3 said under the EDSA Bus Carousel Augmentation Program, the public utility buses will be deployed from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., from March 30 to April 4. The MRT-3 did not say how many buses would be deployed but according to MRT-3 Director for […]
