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(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational flights. MIAA said this was as of Sunday, April 5: MIAA said flight schedules may change at any given time. “In such cases, please contact your airline for confirmation,” MIAA said.
(Eagle News)–A 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Sunday, April 5. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 10:39 a.m., hit 49 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos. Depth of focus was 126 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–The province of Rizal will be on lockdown starting Monday, April 6. According to Executive Order No. 164, series of 2020, signed by Acting Rizal Governor Reynaldo San Juan Jr., the lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease 2019 will start at 8 a.m. Under the lockdown, non-residents except those exempted by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases will no longer be allowed entry into the province. […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with isolated rains are expected in the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. PAGASA said this was due to the Northeasterly Surface Windflow. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to the easterlies and localized thunderstorms. […]
HONG KONG, Chinaa (AFP) — About 130 of Hong Kong’s frontline riot police officers will be sent to quarantine camp after two of their colleagues were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, a police source told AFP late Saturday. A 46-year-old sergeant, stationed in the city’s Kowloon West region, was confirmed to be infected early on the same day. He was deployed in a crowd control operation during a protest on Tuesday. Another officer, […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy saw its first drop Saturday in the number of patients receiving intensive care treatment for the coronavirus that had stretched the Mediterranean country’s world-class healthcare system to breaking point. Civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli called the drop from 4,068 on Friday to 3,994 on Saturday in the number of critical patients an important moment in Italy’s battle against COVID-19. “This is a very important data point because the figure […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — All international football matches scheduled for June were postponed on Friday following the first meeting of FIFA’s coronavirus working group. It was also decided to hold discussions with confederations to draw up a revised schedule for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers which have been shelved. “The FIFA-Confederations working group… has unanimously approved a series of recommendations following its first meeting, which was organised via conference call today,” said a FIFA statement. […]
by Benoît PELEGRIN Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — OPEC and its allies will meet to discuss oil production cuts next week following US President Donald Trump’s claim that leading producers Russia and Saudi Arabia will slash output to boost tumbling prices. The meeting was originally expected to be held via video conference on Monday, but will now take place on Thursday, the government of energy-rich Azerbaijan said Saturday. “OPEC has informed us about […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD with AFP bureaus Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The global death toll in the coronavirus crisis soared past 60,000 on Saturday, as US calls for the public to cover their faces reignited debate about whether masks can be effective in stemming the pandemic. The latest milestone came as Britain recorded a new daily high in fatalities, including a five-year-old child believed to be the nation’s youngest COVID-19 victim. But hard-hit […]
by Andrew Marszal, with Maggy Donaldson in New York Bill Withers, the legendary performer who delivered timeless hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” with silky yet funkified vocals and came to define 1970s soul, has died. He was 81 years old. The Grammy-winning artist behind the beloved “Lean on Me” succumbed to heart complications, according to his family, which said it was “devastated” over the loss. “A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Disney delayed the releases of more than a dozen major films Friday, but has not given up on a summer blockbuster with “Mulan” now penciled in for a July launch despite the coronavirus pandemic. The revised schedule confirmed eagerly awaited Marvel movies “Black Widow” and “The Eternals,” as well as the latest “Thor” and “Doctor Strange” sequels, have all been pushed back as the virus shutters theaters around the […]
Becomes 2nd country with most number of virus cases after US (Eagle News) – Spain has overtaken Italy in terms of number of coronavirus cases as its total reached 124,736 – which is about 5,000 more than Italy’s number of 119,827. Based on the latest data from the Johns Hopkins University, Italy still had the most deaths at 14,681 while Spain had a toll of 11,744. Spain is now the second country with the most […]
