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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country reached 518,407 on Wednesday, Jan. 27, after the Department of Health reported 2,245 additional cases. The DOH said of the total COVID-19 cases, 32,384 or 6.2 percent were active. Of these, 84.5 percent were mild, 9.2 percent asymptomatic, 3.4 percent critical, 2.4 percent severe, and 0.48 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Baguio City and Cebu City with 121 each, […]
Homicide ruled out in Dacera case (Eagle News) – The 23-year old flight attendant Christine Dacera died due to natural causes, specifically because of “ruptured aortic aneurysm,” according to a Philippine National Police medico-legal report released recently. In a medico-legal report, the PNP said that homicide is being ruled out in the Dacera case as the autopsy results showed she died of natural causes due to the rupture of her aorta. The immediate cause […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture is recommending the imposition of a price freeze on pork and chicken to prevent a further spike in the prices of these meat products as investigators found evidence of prices being jacked up by as much as P200 per kilo. In a statement, the department said that it has already recommended to President Rodrigo Duterte to impose a price freeze for pork and chicken – P270 per […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday lashed “vaccine nationalism,” accusing rich countries of bulk-buying coronavirus vaccines and hoarding them to the detriment of others. Addressing the all-virtual 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF), Ramaphosa said low- and middle-income countries were being shouldered aside by wealthier nations able to acquire “up to four times what their population needs”. “We are concerned about vaccine nationalism,” he warned. “Rich countries in the world are […]
https://youtu.be/jwC6ulgzvfw (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is now mulling the issuance of a price freeze for pork and chicken because of the unexplained rise in the prices of these meat products, according to Senator Christopher “Bong” Go. The senator who is the President’s former aide said that he had already relayed to President Duterte the public’s complaints about the high prices of pork and chicken, and even of fish and vegetables. Go […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs said it repatriated over 3,000 overseas Filipinos during the third week of January. Of the 3,288 Filipinos abroad repatriated, the DFA said 470 were seafarers while 2,818 were land-based. The DFA said some of those repatriated this week overseas Filipinos with a medical condition, those coming from Singapore and Oman, and a seafarer from Brazil. The DFA also safely brought home an undocumented overseas Filipino from Brunei, […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — A wildfire raging in the south of Argentina has consumed a huge patch of forestland in two days, local authorities said Tuesday — the equivalent of almost 20 Central Parks. The blaze, its origins still unknown, is threatening a vast region around El Bolson, a town of some 18,000 inhabitants in the Rio Negro province in northern Patagonia. More than 100 firefighters have been deployed, working side by side with […]
By Ben Sheppard and AFP Bureaus WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than 100 million Covid-19 cases have now been recorded worldwide, according to an AFP tally on Tuesday, as newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged to ramp up the United States’s struggling vaccine program. The number of cases, compiled from data provided by national health agencies, represents just a fraction of the real infections as the coronavirus has spread around the globe. The United States, […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs said it seized over P10 billion worth of smuggled goods in 2020. In a statement, the bureau said the P10.629 billion worth of smuggled goods seized was a result of 997 seizures from January 2020 to December 2020. The bureau said imported cigarettes and tobacco products topped the list, corresponding to P5.774 billion and about 204 seizure cases. Next on the list were illegal drugs, at P1.855 billion. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The 80-year-old senator presiding over the impeachment trial of Donald Trump was hospitalized on Tuesday after sounding hoarse and unwell while swearing in lawmakers as jurors. Patrick Leahy, who was elected in 1974, is presiding over the trial as he is the senior senator of the party with the majority in the Senate, currently the Democrats. “This evening, Senator Leahy was in his Capitol office and was not feeling […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has decommissioned four tropical cyclone names from the 2020 list. PAGASA said the officially retired names are “Ambo,” “Quinta,” “Rolly,” and “Ulysses.” They will be replaced by “Aghon,” “Querubin,” “Romina,” and “Upang” on the 2024 list. According to PAGASA, a tropical cyclone name is decommissioned if it meets at least one of the following criteria: (1) 300 or more deaths (2) P 1 billion […]
Says regardless of community protocols, children should not be allowed to go out https://youtu.be/EEsDyJpU80Y (Eagle News) — The Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) reiterated its position and recommendation for children to stay inside their homes, and not go out amid the still raging COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Maria Carmela Kasala, Philippine Pediatric Society spokesperson, said that their group is maintaining its position that children should still remain indoors to protect them from being infected by the […]
