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(Eagle News) — Passi City in Iloilo province has been placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) as COVID-19 cases continued to spike, mostly among market vendors, and with confirmed active cases reaching 220 on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Passi City Mayor Stephen Palmares said that they are now continuously contact tracing the area and the ECQ protocol would further limit movement and hopefully transmission of the virus. The ECQ which started on Jan. 28 […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today, Jan. 31. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said cloudy skies with rains are expected over Eastern Visayas, Caraga and Davao region as the northeast monsoon affects the country. Flashfloods or landslides are possible. According to PAGASA, Cagayan Valley, the Cordillera Administrative Region, Bicol region, Aurora and Quezon will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Debold Sinas has named 22 officials to new posts in a revamp triggered by the retirement of some officials. Named to new posts following the retirement of Police Brigadier General Nolasco Bathan, Police Major General Amado Clifton Empiso as Director for Intelligence, and Police Major General Joel Napoleon Coronel, Director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group were: Police Brigadier General Luisito Magnaye as the Director of the PNP Health […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Protesters briefly disrupted a coronavirus vaccination distribution center at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, US media reported Saturday. Several dozen people carrying signs demanding the end of lockdowns and promoting anti-vaccination conspiracy theories gathered at the entrance to the site, one of the largest in the US, social media posts showed. “There appears to be only about 30 protestors total. It’s not clear why they’ve shut off the whole […]
(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the country reached 525,618 on Sunday, Jan. 31, after the Department of Health reported 2103 additional cases. Of the total cases, the DOH said 27318 or 5.2 percent were active. Of these, 87.7 percent were mild, 5.5 percent asymptomatic, 3.3 percent critical, 2.8 percent severe and 0.6 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 487551 including the 11653 additional ones. Eighty additional deaths pushed the death toll due to COVID-19 to 10749. […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Agence France Presse HONG Kong, China (AFP) — A new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship will go live later on Sunday as the city’s former colonial master opens its doors to those wanting to escape China’s crackdown on dissent. From Sunday afternoon, anyone with a British National (Overseas) passport and their dependents will be able to apply online for a visa […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s government on Sunday threatened legal action against laboratories failing to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the European Union on schedule, amid tension over delays to deliveries from AstraZeneca. “If it turns out that companies have not respected their obligations, we will have to decide the legal consequences,” Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told German daily Die Welt. “No company can favour another country over the EU after the fact,” he added. […]
by Véronique DUPONT Agence France Presse Only a few weeks ago, Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca was being applauded for the speed with which it developed its Covid-19 vaccine. Experts heralded the launch of the jab as a turning point in the pandemic, not least because it can be transported and stored more easily than its Pfizer/BioNTech counterpart. The Anglo-Swedish firm also won plaudits for promising to provide the vaccine on a non-profit basis to […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Surigao del Sur on Sunday, Jan. 31. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 8:34 a.m., had its epicenter 60 kilometers southeast of Bayabas. It had a depth of 11 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–Over 30 individuals have tested positive in the second mass testing conducted by the House of Representatives. House Secretary General Mark Llandro Mendoza said the 34 out of 2848 individuals who were tested translate to a positivity rate of only 1.19 percent. He said this was “way below the 5-percent positivity rate recorded during the first mass testing.” In the first mass testing since Rep. Lord Velasco assumed the Speakership, 98 out of 2000 […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized over 100 bottles of liquid marijuana in Pasay. The bureau said the 116 bottles were intercepted recently at the Central Mail Exchange Center and had been declared as “dietary supplements.” There were different consignees for the packages, the bureau said. The bureau said all seized packages were turned over to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency “for further investigation and case build up.” It said charges for […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-five more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said the additional recoveries pushed the PNP COVID-19 recovery tally to 9502. Thirty additional cases, however, pushed the PNP COVID-19 tally to 10,117. Of these, 587 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 28. The police are among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program that is slated to start […]
