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(Eagle News) — To support economic managers in crafting a “bounce-back plan” for the Philippine economy, the Department of Finance (DOF) is recruiting highly-competent and committed individuals that would help the economy to recover once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Finance Assistant Secretary Antonio Joselito Lambino II said the DOF’s Strategy, Economics and Results Group (SERG), which he heads, is building its team to support state economic managers in coming up with this recovery and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for COVID-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care — and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed Tuesday. The US government-funded analysis of how American military veterans fared on hydroxychloroquine was posted on a medical preprint site and has not yet been peer-reviewed. The experiment had several important limitations but adds […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico raised its health emergency level following a rapid increase in coronavirus cases and amid fears the health system could collapse, the government said Tuesday. Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said the country was moving to “phase three” of its response to the deadly pandemic. “We’re in a phase of rapid increase, where we’re accumulating a large number of infections (and) hospital admissions,” he said. The government has suspended all non-essential […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The death toll from a weekend mass shooting in Canada’s Nova Scotia province has risen to 23, police said Tuesday, after remains were found in burnt out homes and vehicles. “We believe there to be 23 victims, including a 17-year-old (girl). All other victims are adults, both men and women,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. “We have recovered remains from some of the locations of the fires,” […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran on Tuesday announced 88 new deaths from the novel coronavirus as the country said it had released more than 1,000 foreign prisoners over the outbreak. According to health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, the latest fatalities in the past 24 hours brought the total to 5,297, in one of the world’s deadliest outbreaks. The foreign prisoners were among 100,000 inmates temporarily released in several stages since March. They included British-Iranian woman […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will make his decision on the fate of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine on April 23. This is according to Senator Bong Go, who gave a radio interview on Tuesday, April 21. Before he became senator, Go was a close aide of President Duterte. “Ngayon po ay pinag-aaralang mabuti at ngayon Huwebes magdedesisyon ang ating Pangulo,” Go said. Earlier, the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases said […]
(Eagle News) – Local government units were directed by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to focus and intensify contact tracing efforts, in view of the LGU-led strategy adopted by the government to combat COVID-19. In a statement, DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año said that the main focus of the local-level contact tracing is to detect, isolate, treat, and reintegrate COVID-19 positive patients, “in accordance with the National Strategy to Defeat Covid-19 of […]
(Eagle News) – Violators of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) will no longer be warned, but will be arrested and filed with appropriate charges, the Philippine National Police warned. In a statement released following a virtual presser held Tuesday, April 21, PNP Chief Archie Gamboa said that the PNP will strictly enforce the ECQ throughout Luzon, particularly in Metro Manila, Region III and CALABARZON, as well as in areas with high or increasing COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the doubling time of the coronavirus cases, meaning the time it takes for the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to double, has further slowed down. From three days, the doubling time has now slowed down to five days on the average, according to experts. This is one of two “good news” that the DOH announced on Tuesday, April 21, more than a month after the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain saw a slight increase in the daily virus death toll on Tuesday, with 430 people dying in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed. So far, 21,282 people have succumbed to the pandemic in Spain, which has suffered the third-highest number of deaths in the world after the United States and Italy. Officials say the numbers tend to go up slightly on Tuesdays following a slight delay in receiving […]
(Eagle News) – Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso signed on Tuesday, April 21 the executive order imposing a 48-hour “hard lockdown” of the entire Sampaloc district due to COVID-19. In a statement, the Manila Public Information Office said that the lockdown will be “from 8:00 pm on Thursday, April 23 until 8:00 pm on Saturday, April 25”. “[H]ealth authorities will be conducting disease surveillance, testing and rapid risk assessment as the city’s response […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s Prime Minister said on Tuesday that by the weekend he would reveal the steps the country will take to loosen restrictions, reopen the economy and emerge from the coronavirus crisis. Italy, which has reported more coronavirus deaths than any other European country, has been under national quarantine since March 9, with some regions imposing lock-downs even earlier. The quarantine period, which has been extended twice, is due to expire on […]
