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(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was as of Wednesday, April 8: Flight schedules, MIAA said, may be subject to changes. In such cases, passengers were advised to coordinate with their respective airlines. The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon has been extended to April 30.
(Eagle News)–A 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Wednesday, April 8. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 2:37 a.m., had its epicenter 350 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. It had a depth of focus of 2 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Sixty-six people, most of them staff at one South African hospital, have tested positive for coronavirus, the health minister said Tuesday as the national total of cases jumpted to 1,749. Authorities are now rushing to temporarily shut the facility. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said authorities were concerned about an outbreak at St. Augustine hospital, in the southeastern coastal city of Durban. Of those infected, 48 are hospital staffers, the minister […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine Airlines has cancelled all its domestic and international flights until April 30. According to PAL, the cancellation was due to the extended enhanced community quarantine announced by the government on Monday, April 6. “We plan to resume flying by May 1, if the situation allows,” PAL said. Affected passengers may make conversions to their travel vouchers, rebook or reroute or refund. Processing of the requests of those affected due to the cancellation of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Nearly 2,000 people infected with the new coronavirus have died in the United States in the last 24 hours, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of 8:30 pm Tuesday (0030 GMT Wednesday). The record daily figure of 1,939 brings the total number of deaths in the US to 12,722, which is approaching tolls in the worst-hit countries so far — Italy with 17,127 dead and Spain with 13,798. […]
MOSCOW, United States (AFP) — The head of a top Russian research center told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that his lab was ready to start human trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines in June. Rinat Maksyutov, head of the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Centre, said his facility proposed first-phase clinical trials of three vaccines from June 29, on 180 volunteers. Maksyutov was speaking during a video-link meeting between Putin and the heads of top […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Former Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for corruption during his 10-year term in office, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Correa — who was president from 2007-17 but now lives in exile in Belgium, where his wife was born — was one of 18 people convicted of bribery, the office said on Twitter. Correa, one of the feistiest characters in Latin American politics, […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Twitter co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey said Tuesday he was committing $1 billion of his personal fortune to coronavirus relief through his philanthropic fund. Dorsey said in a series of tweets that he would transfer his equity in his digital payments group Square to his limited liability corporation Start Small, contributing around 28 percent of his overall wealth. “Why now? The needs are increasingly urgent, and I want […]
SUVA, Fiji (AFP) — A deadly Pacific cyclone bore down on Fiji Wednesday after leaving a trail of destruction in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Tropical Cyclone Harold weakened slightly overnight from a scale-topping category five to a four, but was still lashing Fiji with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour), forecasters said. The official NaDraki weather service said the cyclone was offshore south of Fiji’s main island Viti […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of bias toward China during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump told reporters he was “going to put a very powerful hold on” funding to WHO, the UN body whose biggest funding source is the United States. “We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO,” said Trump, who pursues an “America […]
by Alice RITCHIE / Phil HAZLEWOOD LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battling the coronavirus in intensive care on Tuesday, raising deep concerns about his health as the country recorded its highest daily death toll. “The Prime Minister’s condition is stable and he remains in intensive care for close monitoring. He is in good spirits,” his official spokesman said in an update sent around 1800GMT, almost 24 hours since he […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over his mishandling of an outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced. Modly stepped down five days after removing the Roosevelt’s captain, Brett Crozier, for writing a letter, which was leaked to the media, describing the virus-struck vessel’s dire situation and alleging the Pentagon was not paying adequate attention to it. The removal […]
