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(Eagle News)–The North Luzon Expressway Corp. has released its list of operational toll plazas on NLEx and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway amid the enhanced community quarantine. NLEx Corp. said the list was as of Friday, May 1: NLEx Corp. said only Tambubong (northbound and southbound), Lawang Bato northbound entry and exit, Lingunan entry and exit, and Libtong and Pandayan exit are closed. The Ciudad de Victoria exit, both northbound and southbound, NLEx Corp. said, was open […]
(Eagle News)–Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has ordered the creation of help desks for Overseas Filipino Workers who have been repatriated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, Año said the decision to have OFW help desks in DlLG regional offices was following reports some OFWs were not being allowed in their communities, or were being prevented from getting to a government facility so they could undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine. All OFWs are also required […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Leyte today, May 1. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 4:15 a.m, had its epicenter seven kilometers southwest of Villaba. It had a depth of 11 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was as of Friday, May 1: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Earlier, AirAsia, Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific cancelled their flights until May 15 in light of the extension of the enhanced community quarantine in some areas, including in Metro Manila, to that date. All flights are concentrated at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao City. PAGASA said the LPA was estimated 695 kilometers east southeast of Davao City at 3 a.m. It is embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. PAGASA said partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers will be experienced over the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Mt. Province, Kalinga, […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday. “Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis,” Thunberg, 17, was quoted as saying in the UNICEF statement. “It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States recorded more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period for the third day running, according to the latest real-time tally Thursday reported by Johns Hopkins University. The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — recorded 2,053 deaths on Thursday, after 2,502 deaths on Wednesday and 2,207 on Tuesday. At least 62,906 people have now died in the United […]
Roque appeals for public’s understanding as decision put on hold until further study (Eagle News Service) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) would still further study the earlier announced decision allowing the holding of religious gatherings provided that there is a two-meter physical distancing between attendees. Roque said that this revision of protocols for areas under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) is put on hold for […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened new tariffs against Beijing after claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China’s ground-zero city of Wuhan. Asked if he had seen anything giving him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of the outbreak, Trump replied, “Yes, I have.” The Republican is increasingly making complaints over Beijing’s handling of the pandemic […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD / James PHEBY Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain is “past the peak” of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, despite recording another 674 deaths in the last 24 hours. The coronavirus death is now 26,711, the world’s third-most highest behind the United States and Italy, after changing its reporting to include community as well as hospital deaths on Wednesday. The UK’s number of confirmed […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres praised South Korea Thursday for combatting the novel coronavirus while simultaneously fighting climate change. The country was providing a “remarkable example” of how “the two things can be put together,” Guterres told journalists during a press conference. Under a so-called Green Deal, South Korea has put together what Guterres called “very ambitious” plans for a post-coronavirus economic recovery which include a reduction of emissions […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Beaches in some parts of southern California will be shut down from Friday, the state’s governor announced, to avoid a repeat of the huge crowds that flocked there last weekend. “We’re going to do a hard close … just in the Orange County area,” Gavin Newsom said. “Specific issues on some of those beaches have raised alarm bells,” he added, referring to the thousands of people who packed beaches […]
