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(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat has announced she would be going on self-quarantine. In a statement on Friday, March 27, this was since Armed Forces of the Philippines chief General Felimon Santos Jr. tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019. She said she was in a meeting with Santos on March 20. According to Puyat, she will, however, forego undergoing the COVID-19 test since she was not currently exhibiting any symptoms “to save […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational flights. MIAA said the following commercial flights are operational as of March 27: MIAA said, however, that some of these flights may be suspended, depending on the situation. MIAA has said all flight operations will be concentrated in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1. It said this was part of streamlining operations to reduce the risk of airport workers and […]
No military control of Luzon either, Nograles says (Eagle News)–The Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Friday, March 27, belied social media reports the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine would be extended. In a radio interview, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles also denied there would be military control over Luzon. “To the public, do not share, do not post itong mga fake news na ito (these fake news),” Nograles said. Nograles […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday, March 27, that he would be on self-quarantine after the country’s armed forces chief of staff tested positive for coronavirus. Lorenzana said that he was informed by Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff Gen. Felimon Santos Jr., himself that he already tested positive for COVID-19. “I shall be on self-quarantine effective today. This morning I was informed by CSAFP Gen Santos […]
(Eagle News) — Nine doctors have already died due to coronavirus as lack of protective personal equipment started to take its toll on the country’s health profession in the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19. The war against the coronavirus has in fact taken some of the best doctors in the Philippines, among them a top cardiologist Dr. Raul Jara, the former head of the Philippine Heart Association; a Pampanga provincial health officer, Dr. […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday, March 27, welcomed the appointment of Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. as the “chief implementer” of the Philippines’ national action plan against the coronavirus disease 2019. “I look forward to working with Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. as the chief implementer of the government’s efforts to combat the spread of COVID19 under the national action plan,” Lorenzana said. According to the Defense secretary, the NAP would […]
SYDNEY. Australia (AFP) — Australian researchers are fast-tracking large-scale human testing to see if a vaccine used for decades to prevent tuberculosis can protect health workers from COVID-19, they announced Friday. The trial of the BCG vaccine will be conducted with 4,000 health workers in hospitals around Australia to determine if it can reduce COVID-19 symptoms, the researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne said. “Although originally developed against tuberculosis, and still given […]
(Eagle News) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries currently implementing a lockdown, to go one step further in attacking the virus spread by strengthening and expanding the public health force and to aggressively “isolate, test, treat and trace” coronavirus cases. “We have overcome many pandemics and crises before. We will overcome this one too. The question is how large a price we will pay?” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Switzerland on Thursday joined the small group of countries to declare more than 10,000 officially-recorded cases of COVID-19, as it launched plans to start tracking crowd build-ups through mobile phone data. The health ministry said 10,661 people in the Alpine country have tested positive for the new coronavirus — nearly 1,000 more than a day earlier — while 161 people have died. Switzerland, which is among the countries […]
(Eagle News)–Starting March 28, all flight operations will be concentrated in one terminal. The Manila International Airport Authority made the announcement of the concentration of its operations in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1, noting the suspension of operations of many air carriers due to the coronavirus disease 2019. According to MIAA, beginning 12:01 a.m. of March 28, the following airlines will be operating to and from Terminal 1:Gulf Air, Korean Airlines, Asiana Airlines, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chinese scientists reported Thursday it is possible, although rare, for pregnant mothers with the COVID-19 illness to pass the infection down to their babies. The team followed 33 pregnant women from Wuhan, the city where the disease behind a deadly pandemic was first identified — and found that three babies were infected with the new coronavirus at birth (a rate of nine percent, albeit in a very small sample). They […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Davao Region and the province of South Cotabato will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the Low Pressure Area 530 kilometers east southeast of Davao City. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers as the easterlies affect Southern […]
