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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Global trade growth is expected to plummet by up to a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday, warning that the numbers would be “ugly”. “World trade is expected to fall by between 13 percent and 32 percent in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts normal economic activity and life around the world,” the WTO said in a statement. There was a wide range […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is eyeing the use of a Singapore-based mobile app to help in tracing contacts of COVID-19 patients. In an online statement, the DICT said that it is currently coordinating with the Department of Health and other government agencies to look into ‘TraceTogether’, a community driven contact tracing app launched on March 20, 2020. The DICT explained that TraceTogether allows the exchange of short-distance Bluetooth […]
(Courtesy: Supreme Court Public Information Office). Associate Justice Estela Bernabe, Chairperson of the 2019 Bar Examinations, belied reports circulating online that a certain date has been set for the release of the results. (Eagle News) – The Supreme Court of the Philippines belied reports that a definite date has been set for the release of the results of the 2019 Bar Examinations. In an advisory issued on April 2, Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe, Chairperson […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The head of the European Research Council has resigned, the EU confirmed on Wednesday, reportedly in protest at the bloc’s handling of its coronavirus response. Mauro Ferrari, who only took over as president of the ERC in January, told the Financial Times he was “extremely disappointed” by the EU’s response to the pandemic, which has hit Italy and Spain particularly hard. A spokesman for the Europan Commission, the bloc’s executive that […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — Despite “positive signs” from some countries, it is too early to scale back measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s European office said Wednesday. “Now is not the time to relax measures,” WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told a news conference. “It is the time to once again double and triple our collective efforts to drive towards suppression with the whole support of […]
(Eagle News)–A rainfall advisory has been hoisted over parts of Aurora. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said light to moderate to at times heavy rains are being experienced over Baler, Maria Aurora, and San Luis. PAGASA said these may persist within one to two hours and may affect nearby areas. “All are advised to take precautionary measures against the impacts associated with these hazards,” PAGASA said.
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain recorded Wednesday a second successive daily rise in coronavirus-related deaths with 757 fatalities, lifting the total toll in Europe’s second-hardest-hit country after Italy by 5.5 percent to 14,555. The number of new infections rose by 4.4 percent to 146,690, the health ministry said, as Spain has ramped up its testing for the disease. The number of daily deaths, which peaked on Thursday at 950, rose for the first time on […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) — Five civilians were killed on Wednesday when their car was hit in a bomb attack in Turkey’s southeast, local officials said. The governor of Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir province said the attack was carried out in the early hours by “members of the PKK terror organization”, referring to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The PKK has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is listed as a terror group by […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that 106 new cases were added to the tally of COVID-19 cases in the country, bringing the total to 3,870. This is the second consecutive day that only over 100 new cases were added to the list as the DOH continued to hope that the enhanced community quarantine, combined with strategic mass testing and treatment and isolation of cases, would slow down the virus infections […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian equities retreated Wednesday after a two-day rally as investors closely track developments in the coronavirus crisis, while the oil market continued to fluctuate ahead of a crucial producers’ meeting. While the deadly disease continues to sweep across the planet, signs that the rate of infections is possibly leveling out and countries are preparing to ease some lockdown restrictions have instilled a semblance of optimism this week. However, the […]
These Filipino kids from Spain send their warm greetings and heartfelt thanks to all COVID-19 frontliners. Spain is one of the countries with more than a hundred thousand confirmed coronavirus infections. As of the latest tally from the Johns Hopkins University as of Wednesday, April 8, Spain already has almost 142,00 cases (141,942), with more than 14,000 recorded COVID-19 related deaths, and more than 43,000 recoveries. It is only second to the US with […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said 247 crew members of two cruise ships for a Germany-based travel agency arrived in the country on Wednesday morning, April 8, 2020. The DFA welcomed the crew members of cruise ships MS Amadea and MS Amera who returned from Frankfurt, Germany. “The repatriates arrived this morning via a chartered flight contracted by BSM Crew Service Center Philippines Inc. and Five Star Marine Services Corp., […]
