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PARIS, France (AFP) — The French drugs agency warned doctors for a second time Saturday about using hydroxychloroquine, the drug championed by US President Donald Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19, as the number of cases of worrying side effects continued to rise. The agency, known by its initials ANSM, had already issued a “signal of vigilance” about the anti-malaria drug which is also used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Davao Region, SOCCSKSARGEN, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Mindanao. Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with isolated light rains caused by the northeasterly surface windflow. Metro Manila and the rest […]
by Caroline Nelly Perrot Agence France-Presse TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) — The feared impact of coronavirus on Tunisia’s fragile public health system has provoked a flurry of innovation from robotics to digitalisation efforts to bolster the North African country’s pandemic response. The government has even turned to students for help, asking the engineering school in Sousse, south of the capital Tunis, to task its students with designing a locally made ventilator as their end-of-year project. Ventilators are […]
(Eagle News)–Palawan’s Puerto Princesa has confirmed its first COVID-19 case. Mayor Lucilo Bayron said in a Facebook message on Sunday, April 26, that the patient was admitted to the hospital on April 14. “Nakunan siya ng swab test bago siya pumanaw at naipadala ito sa Research Institute for Tropical Medicine ngunit hindi kaagad lumabas ang resulta at kagabi lang nalaman na siya ay positibo,” he said. The patient died on April 21. Another patient showing […]
Eagle News) – The “We Heal as One Center” at the Philippine Arena complex in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue, Bulacan is on “advanced stage of completion,” according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). In its Facebook and Twitter posts on Sunday night, April 26, the DPWH said that the quarantine facilities for COVID-19 at the Ciudad de Victoria are near completion. It also showed a video of the work done so […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll dropped to 288 on Sunday, the lowest since March 20, as the country eased its lockdown to allow children outside for the first time in six weeks. The health ministry said the figure dropped from 378 on Saturday and brought Spain’s total toll to 23,190, the third highest number of deaths after the United States and Italy. The news came as the country took the […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines’ Bureau of Customs said that it has returned to South Korea more than 2,600 metric tons of waste materials which have been in the country since 2018. In a report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero said that the BOC returned the 2,676 metric tons of waste that were stored at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Authority premises in Misamis Oriental since 2018. This was part of […]
(Eagle News) – The Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) has resumed full operations after downscaling for about a week, the Department of Health said. “Ngayon po ay full operations na po uli ang RITM. Fully functional na po sila,” said DOH Spokesperson Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a virtual press briefing on Sunday, April 26. She said only two of the 43 infected RITM personnel have yet to finish their quarantine, while none of […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — An Ecuadoran woman who was pronounced dead of COVID-19 suddenly woke up in the hospital, to the delight and relief of relatives who had identified someone else’s body as hers and had it cremated. Alba Maruri, 74, was hospitalized in March in Guayaquil, the Ecuadoran city hardest hit by the pandemic, with fever and trouble breathing. She lost consciousness for three weeks and was declared dead on March 27, relatives […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing has banned “uncivilized” behaviour such as not covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, the city government said Sunday, in a new set of regulations to improve public hygiene amid the coronavirus outbreak. The laws aim to promote “civilized behaviour” and relate to combating the pandemic which has infected more than 82,000 in China alone. Rulebreakers will be slapped with fines for offences including not wearing a […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has risen to 7579, after the Department of Health reported 285 new cases. The DOH said the country has recorded 862 recoveries, including the 70 new ones. Over 500-or 501–deaths have been recorded, including the seven new deaths. The DOH has said it was too early to say if the country was flattening the COVID-19 curve, but said there were indications. President Rodrigo Duterte […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Science and Technology is looking for individuals willing to design ventilators and respirators for use in the country’s fight against COVID-19. In a statement on Sunday, April 26, the DOST called on designers to submit their concept proposals — including preliminary work, description of design, work plan, deliverables — and a letter of intent from the medical expert or hospital and the budget. According to DOST executive director Enrico Paringit, who […]
