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(Eagle News)–The Passenger Terminal Building of the Clark International Airport is now 99.14 percent complete. This is according to the Department of Transportation, which said the information was as of June 30. The DOTr said construction work for the project under the “Build, Build, Build” program is being rolled out at an “accelerated pace.” The DOTr made the statement days after the government lifted the ban on non-essential foreign travel by Filipinos amid the COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, July 11: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Domestic flight operations are allowed for as long as there is approval from the local government unit concerned. Non-essential foreign travel by Filipinos is now allowed but subject to certain conditions. The Department of Foreign Affairs earlier released its updated list of travel bans and restrictions across countries for Filipino […]
(Eagle News)–The Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Mindanao today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Zamboanga Peninsula, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, General Santos City, and Davao Occidental will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms as a result. Flasb floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rainshowers are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other […]
(Eagle News) – A magnitude 5.2 quake rocked Davao del Sur early dawn of Saturday, July 11, which was felt at various intensities in surrounding areas. The tremor occurred at 2:16 a.m. and its epicenter was located at 11 kilometers southeast of Kibiawan, Davao del Sur, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). It was 19 kilometers deep and was felt at intensity 5 in Bansalan and Magsaysay in Davao del […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — There is “strong evidence” that COVID-19- positive mothers can pass the virus on to their unborn infants, scientists said Thursday, in findings that could affect how pregnant women are shielded during the pandemic. While there have been isolated cases of babies infected with the virus, the findings show the strongest link yet between mother and infant transmission. Researchers in Italy studied 31 pregnant women […]
by Raul BURGOA with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — Bolivia’s interim president became the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus Thursday, as the United States notched yet another record-breaking surge of cases while global infections and fatalities continued their relentless rise. COVID-19 has now claimed more than 550,000 lives across the planet, and infected more than 12 million people since it first emerged in China in […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday that it was investigating “massive fraud” across France by people falsely claiming temporary wage assistance for employees laid off during the coronavirus lockdown. As the crisis hit, the government quickly introduced a system to pay around 84 percent of net salary for people no longer able to work. Thousands of firms applied for the payments, allowing millions of people to avoid a sudden drop […]
(Eagle News) — In a historic vote, majority of the members of the House Committee on Legislative Franchises, including its ex-officio members, voted on Friday, July 10, to adopt the committee technical working group resolution rejecting the ABS CBN franchise renewal application. There were 70 lawmakers who voted Yes to the resolution denying the franchise renewal of the media network, with 11 while voting No as they were in favor a franchise renewal. Below is […]
(Eagle News) — The Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Mindanao today, July 10. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Zamboanga Peninsula, SOCCSKSARGEN, Davao Region and Caraga will have cloudy skies and scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. PAGASA said Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy […]
DOH reports 286 recoveries, 42 deaths today (Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country is nearing the 53000 mark after the Department of Health reported 1233 cases on Friday, July 10. The DOH said of the total 52914 COVID-19 cases, 38324 were active cases. Of the 1233 cases reported today, 848 were fresh cases, or cases where results were given to the patient within the last three days. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has begun coordinating with international partners to ensure that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available to Filipinos should one be developed. In a statement, the DFA said it has initiated the “coordination and exchanges of information” with different jurisdictions across the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Africa and Middle East through its foreign service posts. “Based on the gathered information by the Department, collaboration with Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declared 2020 as the year of Filipino health workers. In making the declaration through Proclamation No. 976, the President noted the COVID-19 pandemic “has greatly affected the country and most nations worldwide and has posed a daunting challenge to the country’s health sector,” but health workers “selflessly and tirelessly provide essential, quality and critical care to individuals, families and groups, even in the face of great peril, fear, uncertainty […]
