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(Eagle News)–Thirty-nine additional police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional cases as of Friday night, the total is now at 4330. Four more recoveries brought the total to 3001. No additional deaths were reported, which means the tally remains at 16. Suspect cases are at 2983, while probable cases are at 699. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The PNP earlier said […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Samar early Saturday, Sept. 5. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 3:36 a.m., had its epicenter five kilometers northeast of Santa Rita. It had a depth of 23 kilometers and was tectonic in origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–Another Filipino crew member of the Panamanian-flagged vessel that sank off Japan has been found, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday night. According to the DFA, the Filipino, who worked on board Gulf Livestock 1, was found alone in a life raft. He is conscious and able to walk, the DFA said, without disclosing his identity. Meanwhile, the DFA said based on a report from the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo and the […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police has announced another round of reassignments following the assumption of Gen. Camilo Cascolan as PNP chief. In a statement, the PNP said seven more senior police officials were designated to key positions, based on special order dated Sept. 4. Police Brigadier General Ronaldo Olay, who was deputy director for comptrollership, is now head of the PNP Health Service. Police Brigadier General Herminio Tadeo Jr., on the other hand, was reassigned […]
(Eagle News)-The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, Sept. 5: MIAA said flight schedules may be subject to changes. All passengers were advised to get confirmation of their flights on the same day they are supposed to be scheduled. Domestic flight operations are allowed with Metro Manila under a general community quarantine. The Bureau of Immigration has said the restrictions on international travel remain.
by Bernadette CARREON Agence France Presse KOROR, Palau (AFP) — The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has urged the United States military to build bases on its territory — which lies in a region where Washington is pushing back against growing Chinese influence. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the island nation last week and accused Beijing of “ongoing destabilising activities” in the Pacific. Palau President Tommy Remengesau later revealed he told Esper the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand recorded its first Covid-19 death in more than three months on Friday when a man in his 50s succumbed to the virus. Health officials said the man was part of a second-wave cluster of infections that emerged in Auckland last month, ending a spell of 102 days free of community transmission in the South Pacific nation. The death at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital on Friday afternoon takes New […]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions are transitioning from face-to-face instruction to online-based learning for the safety and well-being of students and teachers. In line with this, the University of the Philippines Rural High School (UPRHS) of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) has partnered with Globe to make available for the latter’s range of services to enable blended learning. Through the partnership, UPRHS secured Globe’s EDUC Load Up plan and Amber […]
(Eagle News)–Fifty-five more Filipinos abroad have recovered from COVID-19, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, Sept. 4. The DFA said with the additional recoveries, the total is now at 6275. Eighteen new COVID-19 cases from the Asia Pacific region and Europe pushed the tally to 10113. “The two previously confirmed cases in Asia and the Pacific were deducted from today’s figures upon verification by Post,” the DFA said. The death toll is still […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque decried an Olongapo court’s ruling for the early release US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton due to alleged Good Conduct Time Allowance, saying that this was contrary to the recommendation of the Bureau of Corrections, and was an “instance of judicial overreach.” Roque, in a press briefing, said that he had already talked with Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra about the issue, and said that the DOJ will also act […]
(Eagle News)– COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 232,000 mark after the Department of Health reported an additional 3,714 cases. Of these, the DOH said 67,786 were active, of which 90.7 percent were mild, 6.9 percent asymptomatic, 0.9 percent severe, and 1.4 percent critical. The DOH said the 3,714 additional cases reported today were from total tests done by 93 out of 113 labs. Of these, 1797 came from Metro Manila, 390 from Negros […]
by Ivan Couronne Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An international group of ethicists on Thursday criticized the World Health Organization’s goal of distributing coronavirus vaccines to treat 20 percent of each country’s population, proposing instead what they said was a more equitable system of distribution. In an article published in the journal Science, US professor Ezekiel Emanuel and more than a dozen experts from Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and Singapore suggested […]
