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BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany has recorded 10,999 cases of the coronavirus, official data showed Thursday, with the number of newly reported infections rising by 2,801 in a single day. Twenty people have died from the viral infection, data from the disease control agency Robert Koch Institute showed. North Rhine-Westphalia remains the worst-hit state, with 3,033 COVID-19 cases, up 661 from a day ago. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 15 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the country’s total to 217. The new cases are identified on as Patients No. 203 to 217 (PH203 to PH217) by the DOH which gave no additional details about the patients. In a bulletin issued at 12 noon today, Thursday, March 19, the DOH also announced the recovery of Patient 20 (PH20), a 48 year old Filipino male from Cavite. PH20, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday lifted a state of emergency declared last month over the new coronavirus, saying it sees signs of the outbreak tapering off. The governor of Hokkaido prefecture announced the emergency measure on February 28, as infections in the region grew. The call urged residents to avoid unnecessary outings, though it did not come with aggressive enforcement measures of the sort being implemented now in […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — A network of makeshift barriers has kept residents walled in their neighborhoods for weeks in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic. The city of 11 million, where the virus first erupted, became a ghost town after authorities prevented people from leaving on January 23. With thousands of patients swarming hospitals every week, authorities tightened the restrictions in early February, confining people to their homes. Closing off […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia registered the first death of a patient infected with the coronavirus on Thursday, an elderly woman who had been hospitalized in Moscow, health officials said. The 79-year-old, who had tested positive, was hospitalized on March 13 and had several other conditions including diabetes and heart problems, Moscow’s coronavirus response headquarters said on social media. © Agence France-Presse
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Thursday that the week-long lockdown in Italy, the European country hit worst by the coronavirus pandemic, will be extended beyond the April 3 deadline. “The measures we have taken… must be extended beyond their original deadline,” Conte told Thursday’s edition of the Corriere della Sera newspaper. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) – A Filipino passenger of Hawaiian airlines who was among those recently advised to go on quarantine after a flight from Honolulu to American Samoa shared with EBC Hawaii Bureau’s Arianne Torres their experience during the quarantine period. The passenger who asked for her name to be withheld, said that many of them from the flight from Honolulu to Pago-Pago, the capital of the American Samoa, were advised to go on self-quarantine. Some […]
by Pitcha DANGPRASITH and Lillian SUWANRUMPHA BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thai hospitals are deploying “ninja robots” to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. First built to monitor recovering stroke patients, the machines have been quickly repurposed to help fight the disease, which has so far killed nearly 9,000 people around the world. They have helped staff at four hospitals in and around Bangkok to […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Transportation on Thursday, March 19, launched its COVID-19 hotlines amid the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine. The DOTr said these hotlines are for road concerns by health workers, and aviation and maritime concerns: The DOTr reminded people who are not employed in establishments deemed essential by the government during an enhanced community quarantine to stay at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “Payo po namin na ugaliin po nating lahat na […]
(Eagle News)– A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Zambales on Thursday, March 19. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 2:49 p.m., had its epicenter 30 kilometers southwest of San Felipe. It had a depth of focus of 25 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were recorded: Intensity III – Olongapo City Intensity I – Guagua, Pampanga No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
Washington, D.C. (Eagle News) — With the Coronavirus (COVID-19) being declared a pandemic, most of the world is on lockdown, in order to “flatten the curve” and slow the virus from spreading. Disrupting everyday life as we know it to be. Schools and business (non-essential) are shut down for an extended period of time. Businesses take a big hit without real cash flow and smaller businesses, take an even bigger hit. That doesn’t stop small […]
(Eagle News) — Valenzuela City has confirmed its first case of the 2019 coronavirus disease. In a Tweet on its official Twitter account, the Valenzuela government said the case was a 34-year-old female who consulted a private hospital in Manila after experiencing sore throat and fever. The local government said the patient had no travel history but had been exposed to someone who traveled to Malaysia. At present, Valenzuela said the patient was having “mild-flu […]
