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(Eagle News) — Heavy rains due to localized thunderstorms caused minor floods in some areas of Misamis Oriental, particularly in parts of Cagayan De Oro City on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Heavy rains also caused some flooding in some areas of Gingoog City in the past days which immediately subsided. In Cagayan De Oro City, minor flooding was experienced in barangays Carmen, Kauswagan HIghway and Lapasan because of continuous rains. City disaster officials already […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Tourism has revoked the certificate of authority to operate of the City Garden Grand Hotel where flight attendant Christine Dacera was last found alive. In a statement, the DOT said the CGGH in Makati was also fined P10,000 and its DOT accreditation suspended for six months after it was found to “have misrepresented itself to the public as being allowed to accommodate guests for leisure or staycation purposes despite […]
by Callum PATON Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Twitter and Facebook repeatedly mishandled Donald Trump as he pushed baseless claims, including his assertion that US presidential election he lost was rigged, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told AFP. The two social media giants indefinitely suspended Trump after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, an attack on the seat of democracy that on Wednesday led to Trump’s second impeachment. Wales […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Twitter chief Jack Dorsey on Wednesday backed the messaging platform’s ban of US President Donald Trump, but said it sets a “dangerous” precedent and represents a failure to promote healthy conversation on social networks. “Having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications,” Dorsey said in a string of tweets about his take on the company’s decision late last week to […]
(Eagle News) — Vegetable farms in Benguet are affected by the extremely cold temperatures being felt there due to the northern monsoon in Northern Luzon, particularly in the Cordillera region. Baguio City and the rest of the Cordillera region are feeling the cold weather, but the lowest temperature felt so far since December was in Atok, Benguet at six degrees Celsius (6⁰C). In Baguio, the coldest temperature felt this January was at around 10 degrees […]
by Nicolas ASFOURI Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan Thursday to probe the origins of the coronavirus more than a year after it emerged, although two members were barred from boarding a flight in Singapore after testing positive for virus antibodies. The international team of 13 scientists landed for their much-delayed mission, met by Chinese officials in hazmat suits and given […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish doctors and nurses rolled up their sleeves on Thursday as the nation of 83 million people launched a coronavirus vaccination drive with China’s Sinovac jab. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca received the first shot of CoronaVac live on television after formally approving the vaccine Wednesday despite contradictory data about its efficacy rate. Preliminary studies involving more than 7,000 volunteers in Turkey showed CoronaVac to be 91.25 percent effective. But a […]
https://youtu.be/UEiz1rk-rz8 (Eagle News) — The Philippines is readying cold storage facilities for the expected COVID-19 vaccines that will be coming into the country by next month. Philippine vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said that they have already identified the major hubs which already have cold storage warehouses that could store the vaccines. The central hub is in Metro Manila where millions of vaccine doses can be stored. From the Philippine capital, there will […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country reached 494,605 after the Department of Health reported 1912 additional cases. The Department of Health said of the total COVID-19 cases, 5.2 percent or 25614 were active. Of these, 85 percent were mild, 6.4 percent asymptomatic, 5.2 percent critical, 2.9 percent severe, and 0.48 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 136, Quezon City with 107, Agusan del […]
(Eagle News) — The Food and Drug Administration has granted the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. FDA director-general Eric Domingo made the announcement on Thursday, January 14. With the decision, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is the first vaccine that can be administered legally in the Philippines. “The interim data from the ongoing Phase 3 trial shows the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95% in the study population and at least 92% […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — More than 43 million hectares of forest — an area bigger than Germany — have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, conservation organisation WWF said Wednesday. Swathes of forest continue to be flattened each year — mainly due to industrial-scale agriculture — as biodiversity-rich areas are cleared to create space for livestock and crops. Analysis by WWF […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has raised P1.2 billion in additional revenues for 2020 through its post-clearance efforts. In a statement, the bureau said the P1.2 billion in funds were generated with the Post Clearance Audit Group’s issuance of 168 Audit Notice Letters. The bureau said the PCAG was optimistic that additional revenues may still be collected from post clearance audits from 2019. So far, it said there are still 26 demand letters being […]
