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Meat establishments in QC to extend operating hours during MECQ

(Eagle News)–All meat establishments in Quezon City are ordered to extend their  operations to a maximum of 12 hours during the modified enhanced community quarantine. According to the guidelines issued by the Quezon City government, this was to prevent overcrowding of customers within a particular timeframe. The practice of rotating schedules for shoppers was also encouraged, and should be done in coordination with the concerned barangay. Establishments were also advised to prepare for contactless transactions. […]

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Schools reopen in South Korea as virus fears ease

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students returned to school on Wednesday as educational establishments started reopening after a coronavirus delay of more than two months. Students lined up for temperature checks and were given sanitizers to wash their hands as they entered school premises while teachers greeted them with smiles and occasional elbow bumps. “It’s really exciting to meet my friends and teachers face to face, but we have […]

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Brazil surpasses 1,000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil registered 1,179 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Tuesday, as the pandemic exacted its worst daily toll yet in the hardest-hit Latin American country. The overall death toll in Brazil now stands at 17,971, the ministry said. This was the first time the daily toll exceeded 1,000. New infections in the past 24 hours totaled 17,408, bringing the total to 271,628, the third-highest […]

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COVID-19 Task Force chief implementer Galvez: 42,000 OFWs expected to return to PHL by June, may overwhelm hotels

(Eagle News) – Around 42,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are expected to arrive in the Philippines in May and June, COVID-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez said Tuesday, May 19. Galvez made the statement in his report to President Rodrigo Duterte during the President’s address shortly before midnight. “Malaki po ang problema po natin sa returning OFW. Kasi po sa ngayon po, more than 27,000 na po ang nandito sa Manila at mayroon pa pong darating […]

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COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos now at 2,431; still more recoveries than fatalities, says DFA

(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported 26 new confirmed COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,431 as of Tuesday, May 19. Only one new death was recorded, from the Middle East, bringing to 280 the total number of COVID-19 related deaths among overseas Filipinos. Twenty-one new recoveries were also reported from Asia and the Pacific and Middle East regions, with the total now at […]

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Taal update: 11 quakes, weak steaming monitored; alert level 1 still raised over volcano

(Eagle News)–Eleven earthquakes were recorded at Taal in the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said on Wednesday, May 20. PHIVOLCS said the  earthquakes at the volcano, which remains on alert level 1, were “associated mainly with rock-fracturing processes beneath and around the edifice.” Weak steaming rising 100 meters high was also observed from the vents on the main crater and fissure vents along the Daang Kastila Trail, PHIVOLCS said. PHIVOLCS […]

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Frontal system affects extreme N. Luzon

Visayas, Mindanao affected by easterlies (Eagle News)–A frontal system is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. In its weather update on Wednesday, May 20, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the easterlies are also affecting Visayas and Mindanao. Batanes and Babuyan Islands, PAGASA said, will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and isolated thunderstorms due to the frontal system. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila […]

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Gov’t repatriates 157 Filipinos from Bahrain, Macau

(Eagle News)–The government has repatriated over 150 Filipinos from Bahrain and Macau amid since Saturday, May 16. Based on data from the  Department of Foreign Affairs, of the 157 repatriated, 14 were from Bahrain and 143 from Macau. The DFA said of the 14 Filipinos repatriated from Bahrain, five  lost their jobs with the closure of their respective companies due to the global health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The other was  a […]

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4.5-magnitude quake hits Sarangani

(Eagle News)–A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck off Sarangani early Wednesday, May 20. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 3:38 a.m., had its epicenter 35 kilometers southwest of Glan. It had a depth of 21 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were recorded: Intensity I – Alabel and Malungon, Sarangani; General Santos City No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.

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Military helicopter crashes outside Moscow, crew killed: ministry

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A Russian army Mi-8 helicopter crashed outside Moscow during a training flight on Tuesday, killing the crew, the defense ministry said. “As a result of a crash landing the crew of the helicopter died of their wounds,” the defense ministry said. Defense ministry spokespeople, reached by AFP, declined to specify how many crew members had died. But Russian news agencies, citing emergency services, said three people died. The helicopter, which did […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Wednesday, May 20

(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was as of Wednesday, May 20: All flight schedules are subject to changes. Cebu Pacific earlier extended the cancellation of its flights until May 31 in view of the modified enhanced community quarantine imposed in Metro Manila. All flights are concentrated at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 in a bid to reduce the risk of […]

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‘Super cyclone’ to slam India, Bangladesh

by Sam Jahan with Sailendra Sil in Kolkata Agence France Presse KHULNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — The Bay of Bengal’s fiercest cyclone this century was bearing down on millions of people in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, with forecasts of a potentially devastating and deadly storm surge. Authorities have scrambled to stage mass evacuations away from the path of Amphan, which is only the second “super cyclone” to form in the northeastern Indian Ocean since […]

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