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by AFP Bureaus MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide topped 18 million on Monday with the illness continuing its march, after Australia’s second-largest city imposed a curfew to halt the spread. Six months after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency, the virus has killed more than 687,000 people since it first emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. Fresh clusters […]
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Solicitor General will be closed starting Tuesday, Aug. 4. The OSG said the temporary closure, which will last until Aug. 18, was in compliance with President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement Metro Manila and four other areas will revert to a modified enhanced community quarantine. The President made the decision after the medical community called for a two-week “time-out” so they could recover from exhaustion. The medical community said the […]
by Leila MACOR MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Isaias roared closer to the Florida coast Sunday, threatening to bring strong winds, flash flooding and storm surges but no longer expected to regain hurricane strength. The tropical storm was packing sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour Sunday evening as it moved northwest off the state’s east coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Florida’s coast was experiencing heavy wind gusts. The NHC said […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday, Aug. 3, announced its consular operations in Metro Manila would be suspended starting Tuesday, Aug. 4. The DFA said the suspension of the consular operations also in Rizal, Cavite, Laguna and Bulacan was in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement these areas would be classified as modified enhanced community quarantine areas again. Only select industries are allowed to operate in MECQ areas. According to the […]
LOS ANGELES, California (AFP) — More than 1,300 firefighters were battling a blaze that was burning out of control Sunday in southern California, threatening thousands of people and homes east of Los Angeles. The so-called Apple Fire that broke out Friday near the city of San Bernardino has so far charred more than 20,000 acres (8,000 hectares), sending up columns of smoke visible from far away. It was so smoky that authorities declared an air […]
(Eagle News) — Quarantine passes will be used again in areas under a modified enhanced community quarantine. This is according to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, who gave a radio interview on Monday, Aug. 3, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte announced Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan and Rizal would be classified as MECQ areas starting Tuesday, Aug. 4. According to Año, quarantine checkpoints would again be set up, noting that residents will only be allowed […]
(Eagle News) — The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila is under a two-week lockdown starting today, Aug. 3, and will hold its enrollment of students online. In a Facebook post, PLM said the lockdown was due to the rising active, probable, and suspected COVID-19 cases within the campus. PLM said there are currently four confirmed cases, with two recovered patients and one fatality among employees. There are also three probable and one suspect cases. The […]
by Jonah MANDEL Agence France-Presse GOLAN HEIGHTS, Undefined (AFP) — From biblical plague to modern day protein, one Israeli firm wants to make locusts a sustainable food choice in the Holy Land and beyond. As for whether or not the insects are kosher, the answer is not so simple. At Hargol Foodtech’s farm in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a rectangular enclosure that once served as a chicken coop is filled with thousands of locusts, a […]
by Joshua Howat Berger Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon last month rose 28 percent from July 2019, satellite data showed Saturday, fueling fears the world’s biggest rainforest will again be devastated by fires this year. Brazil’s national space agency, INPE, identified 6,803 fires in the Amazon region in July 2020, up from 5,318 the year before. The figure is all the more troubling […]
(Eagle News) — The Metro Rail Transit-3 and Light Rail Transit-2 will suspend operations starting Tuesday, Aug. 4. In separate Tweets, the MRT-3 and LRT-2 said this was in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement on Monday night that Metro Manila would revert to a modified enhanced community quarantine starting Tuesday, Aug. 4. The President made the announcement a day after the medical community called for Metro Manila’s return to an enhanced community quarantine, saying […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Monday, Aug. 3: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. MIAA urged passengers 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. Starting Tuesday, Aug. 4, Metro Manila and nearby areas will revert to a modified enhanced community […]
(Eagle News) — “Dindo” has intensified into a severe tropical storm. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the storm, however, has no direct impact on the country, as the center of “Dindo” was estimated 475 kilometers north northeast of Basco, Batanes, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 95 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 115 kilometers per hour, and moving northwestward at 15 kilometers per hour. Tonight […]
