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(Eagle News) – Feeling bored while under quarantine? Is the news about mounting coronavirus cases worldwide stressing you out that you need a break? Well, there’s a ton of things to do while at home, and parents need not fret. NET25 Kids enumerated some of the things that parents can do while following the stay-at-home order imposed by various cities and towns. From checking your house for things to improve or repair, folding your […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — A two-month-old baby who was believed to have been Italy’s youngest COVID-19 patient has been released from hospital after overcoming the disease, media reports said Thursday. The baby was no longer running a temperature or fever and was released with her mother, who has recovered from a bout of pneumonia, the reports said. The two were hospitalized in the southern city of Bari on March 18. Italy has officially attributed 17,669 […]
28 new recoveries, 21 other deaths reported (Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has risen to 4076. This was after the Department of Health announced on Thursday, April 9, 206 new COVID-19 cases. The agency also announced 28 new recoveries, bringing the total to 124. Twenty-one additional deaths have been reported. The total number of deaths in the country has reached 203. President Rodrigo Duterte has […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, April 9, expressed sadness over the news Education Secretary Leonor Briones had tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019. “We are sad to hear that Sec. Leonor Briones is COVD-19 positive. We are praying that she gets healed from this dreadful disease,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, Briones “has been an indefatigable and conscientious member of the Cabinet.” “As expected and as […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — A plane carrying 90 tons of UN health, water, and sanitation aid arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to help the cash-strapped country fight the coronavirus pandemic. The shipment includes 28,000 Personal Protective Equipment kits for health workers, oxygen concentrators, pediatric beds, water quality control products, and hygiene kits, the UN said. “This is the first United Nations humanitarian shipment in support of the Venezuela COVID-19 outbreak,” said Peter Grohmann, the UN’s […]
(Eagle News)–Education Secretary Leonor Briones has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019. Briones herself made the announcement in a statement on Thursday, April 9. “As a government official and Cabinet member, and as a Filipino, it is my duty to announce that yesterday afternoon, April 8, 2020, I was informed by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine that I am positive for SARS-COV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19,” Briones said. She said she, however, […]
(Eagle News) – The Manila Health Department (MHD) reported six new cases of coronavirus in the city, bringing the total number of cases to 272. As of latest count, the city has 36 deaths and 24 recoveries, with 487 persons under investigation for the disease. Majority of the COVID-19 cases were recorded in Sampaloc (71 cases) which covers the university belt area, followed by Tondo 2 (31 cases), Sta. Cruz (26 cases), Tondo 1 (31 […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — More than 1.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered worldwide, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 0530 GMT Thursday from official sources. Of the 1,502,478 infections, 87,320 people have died across 192 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China late last year. The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only […]
(Eagle News)–A thunderstorm advisory has been hoisted over Caloocan and other areas. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said apart from Caloocan, Porac in Pampanga; San Jose in Tarlac; San Jose del Monte in Bulacan; and Zambales are experiencing moderate to heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds. PAGASA said these conditions are expected over Nueva Ecija, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Quezon, Bataan and Rizal within the next 2 hours. “All are advised to […]
In this time of lockdowns and self-quarantine, fresh chicken delivered in your villages or near your homes is the ideal. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, a popular fresh chicken brand is starting to do just that. Magnolia Chicken announced that it has started to roll out its “Bayanihan Selling activity to bring chicken supply closer to the consumers” during the enhanced community quarantine. It partnered with netizens who are leaders in their communities […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Koko Pimentel on Thursday, April 9, said the Department of Health must come up with protocols for childbirth amid the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis. In a statement, Pimentel said “pregnant women” are, after all, “one of the most vulnerable at this time.” “They worry about (COVID-19) and they worry about their pregnancy..,” Pimentel said. According to Pimentel, a venue for the delivery and a team of “heroic doctors, nurses and other health workers […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James says the abrupt shutdown of the NBA season due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic has left the Los Angeles Lakers feeling like they still have something to prove. The Lakers were in the midst of a revival season, having made the playoffs for the first time in seven years, when the league suspended the 2019-20 season on March 11 after Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. At […]
