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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte is consulting with former health secretaries of the Department of Health to help him decide whether to extend the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon or to impose a modified community quarantine where only vulnerable sectors or those areas with high COVID-19 cases would remain on lockdown. Some of the health experts invited to give a briefing that started this afternoon, April 20, for the president are former […]
Proposes modified quarantine in some provinces (Eagle News) — Senator Bong Go is in favor of extending the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila. According to Go, a modified community quarantine, on the other hand, could be implemented in some provinces. “Sang-ayon po ako na i-extend ang enhanced community quarantine sa NCR dahil dito po ang tumataas na cases, marami po at kailangang ma-contain ito. Baka hindi po kakayanain ng ating health care system kung […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain said 399 people died of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours in what was the lowest daily number of deaths in four weeks, the government said on Monday. The latest figures, which showed a slight drop from Sunday when 410 people died, brought further relief to a country which has suffered the third-highest number of virus deaths in the world after the United States and Italy. “Today for the first […]
(Eagle News) — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children already know some basic information about the virus that has so far infected more than 2.3 million people around the world. In this video report by Hui Mei See, EBC correspondent in Kuala Lumpur, children interviewed in Malaysia, including kids of Filipinos working there, already know why they cannot go out and why their schools are closed. They already know the importance of proper hand washing […]
Eagle News — With the continuous lockdown of Luzon and basically the entire world, EBC Films wants to make your quarantine days, “Hapi” days. For the remaining days for the month of April, EBC Films will premiere “Walang Take 2” and “Hapi Ang Buhay” on EBC Films’ YouTube and Facebook page. Check out the dates below and mark them on your calendar: April 20 -GUERRERO DOS Tuloy Ang Laban After his brother, Ramon, was tragically […]
by Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Even as virologists zero in on the virus that causes COVID-19, a very basic question remains unanswered: do those who recover from the disease have immunity? There is no clear answer to this question, experts say, even if many have assumed that contracting the potentially deadly disease confers immunity, at least for a while. “Being immunized means that you have developed an immune response against […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore reported a record daily jump of more than 1,400 coronavirus cases Monday, taking its total to over 8,000, with almost all new infections linked to dormitories housing foreign laborers. The city-state was initially successful in keeping its outbreak in check with a strict regime of testing and contact-tracing, but is now facing a fast-moving second wave. Health authorities in the financial hub, which now has the highest number of infections […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Cavite on Monday, April 20. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 11:04 a.m., had its epicenter 10 kilometers southeast of Silang. It had a depth of two kilometers. The following intensities are reported: Intensity II – Tanauan City, Batangas Intensity I – Talisay, Batangas No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
LAGO, Nigeria (AGP) — Nigeria on Monday confirmed its first coronavirus case in the insurgency-hit northeast of the country, a medic with Doctors Without Borders who died from COVID-19. The region has been ravaged by a decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram jihadists that has forced around 1.8 million people from their homes. Aid workers fear the virus could prove devastating if it spreads inside the crowded camps holding hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Consulate in Spain and representatives of the local governments in that country met to agree on the aid that would be made available for Filipinos working in Spain. EBC Barcelona correspondent Lyn Tumbaga-Diez reports that that the following aid are available for overseas Filipinos there. The payment of rents of tenants of public apartment are suspended until August 2020, while those renting private apartments can ask for rent assistance. Electricity, […]
(Eagle News) –The number of COVID-19 recoveries in the country further increased on Monday, April 20, even as the Department of Health reported the number of COVID-19 cases had increased to 6459. According to the DOH, with the 41 new recoveries, the total number of patients who recovered from the virus was now at 613. The DOH reported 19 new deaths, bringing the total to 428. Earlier the Palace said the Philippines had yet to […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Heherson Alvarez has passed away. PDP-Laban Executive Director Ron Munsayac did not say the cause of death but Alvarez was reported to have contracted COVID-19. The Department of Agriculture which Alvarez headed had said Alvarez’s wife had also contracted the virus and were “in critical condition in a hospital in Manila..” “Sen. Sonny, I will miss our impromptu meetings over coffee and lengthy phone calls where we will discuss our plans […]
