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(Eagle News)–There have been no weekend reports of additional COVID-19 cases or deaths among overseas Filipinos, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday night. The DFA said the total tally then remains at 10,181, while the death toll is at 768. The Middle East and Africa still had the most number of COVID-19 cases, with 7,002, followed by the Asia Pacific region with 1205, Europe with 1169, and the Americas with 805. The Middle […]
(Eagle News)–In these pictures shared by the Department of Transportation, passengers inside Metro Rail Transit-3 trains are seen sitting at a shorter distance between each other. From the original one-meter distance, the DOTr said it was now implementing a 0.75-meter distance between commuters in almost all public modes of transport, based on the approval of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Only planes shall retain the original physical distancing protocol […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Monday, Sept. 14. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 4:41 a.m., had its epicenter 287 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. It had a depth of 33 kilometers and was tectonic in origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao del Sur. PAGASA said Visayas and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the LPA situated 175 km east of Davao City as of 3 a.m. Flashfloods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers, […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Monday, Sept. 14: MIAA said flight schedules may be subject to changes. Passengers were advised to get confirmation of their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport premises. Domestic flights are allowed with Metro Manila under a general community quarantine, but subject to the […]
(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 261,000 mark on Sunday, Sept. 13, after the Department of Health reported an additional 3372 cases. The DOH said of the 261,216 total cases, 49,277 were active. Of these, 87.6 percent were mild, 8.8 percent asymptomatic, 1.4 percent severe, and 2.2 percent critical. Of the 3372 newly-reported cases, 1307 came from Metro Manila, 240 from Cavite, 207 from Laguna, 199 from Negros Occidental, and 145 from Bulacan. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Naomi Osaka’s victory in the US Open was hailed Sunday by media and officials in Japan who broadly welcomed her campaigning for victims of racial injustice and against police brutality. Public broadcaster NHK broke into its regular news programme to flash the news of the 22-year-old’s latest Grand Slam triumph, after she beat Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 to add to winning the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open. […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, its highest daily number since wide-scale testing was launched in the country. The number rose to 10,561 new cases on Saturday, up from the previous day’s 9,406 new cases on Friday, the French public health agency said. Over the 24-hour period, 17 people died in hospital, bringing the country’s total to 30,910. A total of 417 new patients were admitted […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has recently repatriated 76 Filipinos from Thailand. The DFA said the Filipinos checked in for their flight to Manila at Suvarnabhumi Airport September 9. The Filipinos included a cancer patient whose medical repatriation was arranged during the Songkran holidays that ended on Monday, the DFA said. According to the department, with the latest batch of returnees, the total number of repatriates from Thailand assisted by the Philippine government rises […]
(Eagle News)–A thunderstorm advisory has been raised over parts of Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to occasionally heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds are expected over Cagayan (Peñablanca and SantaAna) within 30 minutes to an hour. Meanwhile, moderate to occasionally heavy rainshowers are being experienced in Camiguin. PAGASA said these were due to thunderstorms and may persist within one to two hours. “All are advised to take […]
by Daniel LAWLER Agence France Presse Clinical trials of one of the most advanced experimental Covid-19 vaccines resumed Saturday after a brief safety pause, as infection numbers continued to march upward in countries across the globe. The world’s hopes for a reprieve from the pandemic were dealt a blow earlier in the week when pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced they had “voluntarily paused” their vaccine trial after a UK volunteer developed an […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental on Sunday, Sept. 13. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 8:41 a.m., had its epicenter 208 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. It had a depth of 63 kilometers and was tectonic in origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
