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(Eagle News) — Seven more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. Department of Foreign Affairs data showed as a result, COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad–whether active or not–reached 15,948. Seventeen more have recovered, pushing the total COVID-19 recoveries among overseas Filipinos to 9,666. One additional death also led to an increase in the COVID-19 death toll, now at 1,045. According to DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with […]
(Eagle News) — Maritime police seized P3.3 million worth of smuggled gasoline on Thursday, March 18, and arrested 10 people it said were behind the crime. In a statement, the Philippine National Police said Saldi Sali, 29; Kads Abdulmajid, 37; Tanong Sali, 28; Asri Tuwad, 32; Pepe Mdyusof, 25; Totoh Poteh Abdulgafur, 38; Raki Idris, 30; Moktaden Daud, 37; Toy Iya, 39; and Puwa Idris were nabbed by members of the PNP Maritime Group in […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday received a first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, at the London hospital where he fought for his life almost a year ago, assuring the public the jab is safe. “I literally did not feel a thing. It was very good, very quick,” the 56-year-old leader told reporters at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London, close to his Downing Street residence. “Everybody, when […]
Three Indonesian fishermen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants more than a year ago have been rescued in the southern Philippines, police said Friday. The men were among eight crew members aboard a vessel when it was boarded by the notorious kidnap-for-ransom militants — who have distant links to the Islamic State group — off Borneo in January 2020. They were held in Sulu province in the southern Philippines — the group’s stronghold — and during […]
(Eagle News) — Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto has declared a granular lockdown in 37 areas in the city. In a Facebook post, the mayor said the granular lockdown in the following areas was due to the surge in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of variants, and “upon recommendation of our City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit”: BAGONG ILOG Tatco St. Flores St. Santiago St. Bagong Katipunan Asedillo St. BAMBANG F. Castillo St. Pio Alvarez St. CANIOGAN […]
(Eagle News) — The easterlies are still affecting the Philippines. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. PAGASA said partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms are also expected over Bicol Region, Northern Samar, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque and Romblon. Meanwhile, a thunderstorm […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra is mulling extending the lockdown of the Department of Justice after 17 more personnel tested positive for COVID-19. “We have a total of 45 active cases now, and I’m getting alarmed,” Guevarra said. The lockdown on the main building in Manila was supposed to be only from March 12 to 16. During the lockdown, most employees work from home. A skeleton staff, however, reports on-site to receive documents. The Philippines […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — A Burmese journalist with the BBC’s Myanmar language news service went “missing” on Friday, as civilians fled the coup-hit country’s largest city after the junta’s deadly crackdown on dissent. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, triggering a mass uprising that security forces have sought to crush with a campaign of violence and fear. The junta has also gone […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) — Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg is being investigated after revelations that she and her family broke the country’s Covid-19 restrictions, police said Friday. For her 60th birthday, at the end of February, Solberg gathered her family in the ski resort town of Geilo, in breach of restrictions and recommendations on limiting social interactions, public broadcaster NRK revealed on Thursday. “Against the background of information that has surfaced through the press, […]
by Deborah COLE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Coronavirus cases in Germany are rising at a “very clearly exponential rate”, a top public health institute said Friday, as the EU’s biggest country debated tightening a shutdown. The vice president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases, Lars Schaade, told reporters that highly contagious virus variants were getting the upper hand, wiping out progress seen last month in containing the pandemic. […]
By Dr. Ma. Angela Leonor Aguinaldo Contributor/columnist The military officials in Myanmar remain unperturbed. Despite the local demonstrations against the military coup, the pleas from its neighboring countries, as well as the international response and impending sanctions from countries and regional organizations such as the United States and the European Union for the numerous violations of human rights, the end to the military coup in Myanmar remains out of sight. Instead, the Myanmar military […]
(Eagle News) – Russia’s anti-COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V has been given emergency use authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency’s director general said. FDA Director General Undersecretary Eric Domingo said that they issued the EUA to Sputnik V manufactured by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute after a “rigorous and thorough review.” Sputnik V even has a higher efficacy rate against COVID-19 at 91.6 percent, which is higher than the 63.09% against […]
