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(Eagle News)–A 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Thursday, March 19. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 4:58 a.m., had its epicenter 14 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos. It had a depth of focus of 179 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded. (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News)–The Department of Transportation has deployed additional buses with additional routes to ferry health workers to hospitals. The DOTr said the buses plying the following routes are free of charge: North West Area Route 1 • Malanday – (pickup/transfer point) • Valenzuela City General Hospital • Monumento / MCU- (pickup/transfer point) • Tondo General Hospital • Metropolitan Medical Center • San Lazaro Hospital • Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center • University of Santo […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a $100-billion emergency aid package that ensures sick leave to Americans workers who fall ill from the new coronavirus, with more federal assistance in the pipeline. The bipartisan House-passed measure easily cleared the Senate by a vote of 90 to eight earlier Wednesday. Hours later Trump said in a statement that he signed the legislation into law, providing a rare […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The devastating coronavirus outbreak at a nursing home near Seattle where 35 have died was likely fueled by infected staff members continuing to come to work, a report found Wednesday. The care home is responsible for over half the deaths in the northwestern state of Washington — itself the US epicenter of the deadly pandemic. After visiting homes in the region, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found “staff […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Thursday reported no new domestic cases of the coronavirus for the first time since it started recording them in January but recorded a spike in infections from abroad. The lack of domestic infections marks a major milestone in China’s containment efforts, but the rise in imported cases threatens to unravel its progress. There were 34 cases that were brought in from abroad, the biggest daily increase in two weeks, […]
by Michelle FITZPATRICK / Tom BARFIELD BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany is facing its biggest challenge “since the Second World War” in the fight against the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, in what observers called a “final warning” for citizens to heed sweeping confinement measures. In a dramatic television appeal, Merkel said everyone played a part in slowing down a pandemic that has raced across the globe and triggered unprecedented peace-time lockdowns. “The situation […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang announced an automatic price freeze nationwide on basic commodities including food, agricultural products, medicines, and the petroleum products, and warned hoarders and violators that they would be charged criminally. In a press briefing late Wednesday night, March 19, Cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles said that this nationwide price freeze is being implemented immediately amid the state of calamity declared on March 16 by President Rodrigo Duterte because of the coronavirus situation […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The coronavirus epidemic has caused 89 new deaths across France over the last 24 hours bringing the total death toll in the country to 264, the top French health official said on Wednesday. “We have an epidemic that is rapidly becoming more serious,” Jerome Salomon told reporters, adding that France now had 9,134 confirmed cases, 3,626 of whom were in the hospital. He said that the number of new cases was […]
Jerome Kim, the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea, sits with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to discuss the steps and measures being taking by the scientific community to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Kim says it is ‘kind of remarkable’ that new coronavirus vaccine research is at the ‘pre-clinical stage’ as the world scrambles to find a solution to the outbreak.
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has lowered the alert level on Taal after it noted low-level volcanic earthquake activity and weak emissions of steam-laden plumes, among others. In an advisory, PHIVOLCS said from alert level 2 or decreased unrest, Taal’s alert level was now number 1 or abnormal. According to PHIVOLCS, Taal’s condition in the succeeding four weeks after a step-down to Alert Level 2 on February 14 has been characterized by […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies are affecting the eastern section of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers as a result. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The whole archipelago, PAGASA said, will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate coastal waters.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A Florida lawmaker became the first member of the US Congress to test positive for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart’s office said in a statement that “just a short while ago, he was notified that he has tested positive for COVID-19.” The Republican, who represents part of Miami, follows Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus last week. Diaz-Balart said that […]
