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(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Thursday, Aug. 6: 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 to enter the airport premises. With Metro Manila now under a modified enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 18, the […]
(Eagle News) — Former Dinagat Islands Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. has been transferred to the New Bilibid Prison. In a statement, the Bureau of Corrections Public Information Office said the transfer of Ecleo, who was recently nabbed in Pampanga, was ordered by the Sandiganbayan’s first division where he was convicted of graft and corruption over several anomalous projects when he was town mayor. Ecleo was also convicted of killing his wife Alona Bacolod in 2002. […]
AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AFP ) — Qatar began flying field hospitals and medical aid to Beirut Wednesday, AFP correspondents saw, to ease pressure on Lebanon’s strained medical system after the previous day’s devastating explosions. Crews at Qatar’s Al-Udeid airbase loaded collapsible beds, generators and burn sheets onto an Emiri Air Force C17 cargo plane, which subsequently took off for Lebanon. It was one of four due to fly from the Gulf to the Mediterranean country […]
(Eagle News) — An additional 49 Filipinos overseas have recovered from COVID-19, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, Aug. 5. According to the DFA, with the newly-reported recoveries from Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Middle East and Africa, the total number of recoveries rises to 5,730. The DFA said 20, however, were added to the total number of COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos, bringing the total to 9627. Two new fatalities were […]
PHL- 24th country with most COVID-19 cases in the world, based on Johns Hopkins University data (Eagle News) – The Philippines became a close second to Indonesia in terms of having the most COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia as the total confirmed virus infections in the country reached 115,980 on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The country came very close to Indonesia’s record of 116,865 as of late Wednesday afternoon, at 5:34 pm (PST) based […]
(Eagle News) — The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission has recommended the firing or the filing of charges against 36 PhilHealth officials. PACC commissioner Greco Belgica said in an interview this was the content of the PACC’s initial report to the Office of the President on corruption allegations against the state insurer. Belgica did not, however, name the officials. According to Belgica, the “bulk of the problem” was PhilHealth, which he said does not validate the claims […]
(Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country breached the 115,000 mark on Wednesday, Aug. 5, after the Department of Health reported 3462 cases on the same day. Of the 115,980, the DOH said 47587 were active cases, of which 91.4 percent were mild, 7.3 percent were asymptomatic, 0.8 percent were severe, and 0.5 percent were critical. The 3462 newly-announced cases were from tests done by 84 out of 98 […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Some 24,000 health workers in South Africa have contracted the coronavirus, 181 of whom have died, since the pandemic hit the country in March, the health minister announced on Wednesday. South Africa is the hardest-hit country in Africa with at least 521,318 infections diagnosed so far, accounting for more than half the continent’s cases. Health Minister Zweli Mkwize told a news conference that the numbers of health workers who […]
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Layal Abou Rahal Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Rescuers searched for survivors in Beirut Wednesday after a cataclysmic explosion at the port sowed devastation across entire neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. The blast, which appeared to have been caused by a fire igniting 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate left unsecured in a warehouse, was felt as far away as Cyprus, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Wednesday a visit by a top US cabinet member to Taiwan was endangering peace and stability in the region, with relations between the two powers at historic lows. Washington’s de facto embassy in Taipei said US health secretary Alex Azar would lead a delegation to the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as part of China and has vowed to one day seize. “China firmly opposes official exchanges between the […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Aug. 5, condoled with the people of Lebanon after an explosion in Beirut left at least 100 people dead on Tuesday. “The Philippines is in solidarity with the people of Lebanon in this period of great grief. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Lebanese people,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. The Palace also condoled with the kin of the Filipinos who died and were injured in the incident, which […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Antique on Wednesday, Aug. 5. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 8:28 a.m., had its epicenter 49 kilometers northwest of Patnongon. Depth of focus was four kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Reported intensities: Intensity III – Culasi, Bulasong, Barbasa, and Patnongon, Antique; Libacao, and Malinao, Aklan Intensity II – Sebaste, San Jose de Buenavista, and Belison, Antique; […]
