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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Sunday, May 17

(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Sunday, May 17: Earlier, AirAsia, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines cancelled their flights until May 15 in view of the extended enhanced community quarantine in select areas, including in Metro Manila. Cebu Pacific later said it was extending the cancellation to May 31, following the announcement Metro Manila would be under a modified enhanced community […]

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No beds, packed morgues: Mumbai hospitals near collapse

by Ammu KANNAMPILLY / Vishal MANVE Agence France Presse MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Packed morgues, bodies in wards, patients forced to share beds and medical workers run ragged: Mumbai’s war against coronavirus has pushed the Indian city’s hospitals to breaking point. Ravi, 26, had to change his mother’s diapers himself as she lay dying from the disease in the huge Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, better known as Sion. “They would just give us medicines […]

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Signal No. 1 hoisted over four areas as TD “Ambo” slows down

(Eagle News)–Signal No. 1 remains hoisted over four areas as “Ambo,” now a tropical depression, slowed down. In its 11 p.m. advisory, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the extreme northern portion of Ilocos Norte (Burgos, Bangui, Pagudpud), the extreme northwestern portion of mainland Cagayan (Santa Praxedes, Claveria), Babuyan Islands, and Batanes are under the tropical cyclone wind signal with Ambo’s eye 95 kilometers west of Calayan, Cagayan. “Ambo” is packing  winds […]

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Ambo weakens into a tropical depression, slows down over Luzon strait; to exit PHL on Monday

(Eagle News) — Ambo has weakened into a tropical depression and has slowed down while over the Luzon Strait, and is expected to leave the country by Monday afternoon, May 18. At 10 p.m. Saturday, May 16, the center of Tropical Depression “AMBO” was estimated based on all available data at 95 km West of Calayan, Cagayan (19.4 °N, 120.6 °E ). It is moving Northeast at 10 kilometers oer hour with maximum sustained winds […]

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17 more PNP personnel test positive for COVID-19, total cases climb to 231

(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 among its personnel, bringing the total number to 231 as of Saturday, May 16. One (1) recovery was also recorded, bringing the total to 67, while no new deaths were reported. The total number of COVID-19 related deaths remain at 4. Almost all of the newly diagnosed personnel were assigned in Metro Manila. According to the PNP, of the 17 new […]

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DFA reports 4th day of more recoveries than confirmed cases among overseas Filipinos; total recoveries breach 800 mark

(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported 30 new confirmed COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,360 as of Saturday, May 16. Five (5) new fatalities were recorded, bringing to 274 the total number of COVID-19 related deaths among overseas Filipinos. Thirty five (35) new recoveries were also reported, with the total now at 824. “Today marks the 4th consecutive day of more recoveries than […]

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PH Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden reopened after 8 years

(Eagle News) – Filipinos in Sweden and Finland may now avail of consular services from the Philippine Embassy in Stockholm, following its reopening on Friday, May 15. “Eight years after it closed the embassy in Sweden, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has reopened the Philippine Embassy in Stockholm and will initially start offering consular services to Filipinos in Sweden and Finland,” the DFA said in a statement. According to the DFA, consular services in […]

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Signal No. 1 hoisted over Ilocos Norte, other areas as “Ambo” accelerates

(Eagle News)–Signal No. 1 remains hoisted over Ilocos Norte as “Ambo” accelerates while moving northward over the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Batanes, Babuyan Islands, the northwestern portion of Cagayan (Santa Praxedes, Claveria, Sanchez Mira, Pamplona, Abulug, Ballesteros), and the northern portion of Apayao (Calanasan, Luna) are also under the tropical cyclone wind signal. “Ambo” was so far estimated 110 km north northwest of Laoag City, packing  maximum […]

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News in photos: Aftermath of Ambo’s fury in Eastern Samar

    These photos show the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Ambo’s fury after it barrelled its way in Eastern Visayas and Bicol region, making its first landfall in Eastern Samar on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Structures were almost flattened to the ground.  Trees and poles were downed.  The typhoon’s strong winds pummeled these structures and all those in its path. “Ambo” had made seven landfalls in the country since Thusday, May 14. The landfalls were […]

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President Duterte returns to Davao City in first few hours of eased quarantine restrictions in NCR, Luzon

Returns to his family after more than two months of not being able to see them   (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has returned to his home in Davao City in the early hours of Saturday, May 16, shortly after the easing of quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque and Presidential Security Group Commander Col. Jesus Durante III both confirmed this on the first day of Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine in […]

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Coronavirus infects 38 indigenous groups in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — The coronavirus pandemic has hit 38 indigenous groups in Brazil, raising fears for populations that have a history of being decimated by outside diseases, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples’ Association (APIB) said Friday. “The virus is reaching indigenous territories across Brazil with frightening speed,” the association said in a statement. An APIB survey found 446 cases of the new coronavirus and 92 deaths among the affected groups, mainly in the Brazilian […]

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COVID-19 cases in PHL climb to 12305; recoveries rise to 2561

(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has risen to 12305, with the addition of  214   cases, the Department of Health reported on Saturday, May 16. The DOH said of the new cases,  69   percent or 147 cases were from the National Capital Region, and 31 percent or  67 cases from other areas. Recoveries rose to 2561, with the 101   new ones. The death toll stands at  817, including the 11 […]

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