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by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pharmaceuticals and research labs across the world are racing to find vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus, using a variety of different technologies. According to Benjamin Neuman, a virologist at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, immunizing against the pathogen is a long shot: There has never been a very successful human vaccine against any member of the coronavirus family. “This is going to be a lot of trials, […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS and Joseph SCHMID PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered people to stay at home to avoid spreading the new coronavirus, saying only necessary trips would be allowed and violations would be punished. Macron’s orders came as France’s national health agency announced 21 more coronavirus deaths and 1,210 new cases of infection in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 148. In the 20-minute […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte visited early Tuesday, March 17, a checkpoint along MacArthur Highway, Presidential Security Group Jesus Durante III said. A picture from Durante showed the President talking to soldiers manning the checkpoint at 4 a.m. Earlier, President Duterte said “lalabas ako” after announcing an enhanced community quarantine on Luzon in a bid to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease. He said members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of […]
(Eagle News)–An alert level 2 remains hoisted over Taal. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said activity in the main crater in the past 24 hours has been characterized by a “weak emission of steam-laden plumes rising 50 meters high before drifting northeast.” PHIVOLCS said the Taal Volcano Network recorded thirteen volcanic earthquakes that are “associated with rock fracturing processes beneath and around the edifice.” PHIVOLCS reminded the public that “sudden steam-driven or phreatic […]
(Eagle News) – Only two confirmed coronavirus cases—one of them a Philippine senator- were added on Monday, March 16, the first working day of a supposed community quarantine in Metro Manila that was later updated to a stricter enhanced community quarantine for the whole of Luzon. The Department of Health said that the two new confirmed cases included Philippine senator Juan Miguel Zubiri who also went public on television Monday night to say that […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte visited early Tuesday, March 17, a checkpoint along MacArthur Highway, Presidential Security Group Jesus Durante III said. A picture from Durante showed the President talking to soldiers manning the checkpoint at 4 a.m. Earlier, President Duterte said “lalabas ako” after announcing an enhanced community quarantine on Luzon in a bid to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease. He said members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of […]
GOLD COAST, United States (AFP) — Tom Hanks has been released from the Australian hospital where he was in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, but his wife Rita Wilson remains hospitalized, health officials said Tuesday. The multiple Oscar-winning actors were on the Gold Coast near Brisbane to film an Elvis Presley biopic directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann when he and Wilson, both 63, came down with the disease. Wilson, a singer-songwriter, […]
(Eagle News)–The government on Monday, March 16, said the number of people purchasing basic necessities outside the house during the enhanced community quarantine should also be limited. “May isang tao sa bawat household ang puwedeng bumili at umuwi para malimitahan lang natin ang labas-pasok,” Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said. According to Nograles, private cars may be used provided that the trip is only for essential purposes. Nograles said based on the guidelines on the enhanced […]
by Cyril JULIEN ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) — The paper lunch bags are piled outside of the doors of TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Like many others across the United States, the school is closed due to coronavirus. Now it is a center for the distribution of meals for needy students stuck at home. In the bags are peanut butter sandwiches, cheese, fruit and bread, and some milk — the free breakfast and […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte tasked all local government officials – from mayors down to the barangay officials – to send out food to their constituents who are affected by the Luzon-wide month-long enhanced community quarantine that took effect Tuesday, March 17, 2020. “The barangay captains should call a number and at least food, rice and some — yung ulam pwede ninyong ibigay sana para sa ating mga kababayan,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in […]
PHL records two additional COVID-19 cases recorded, bringing number to 142 (Eagle News)–The Department of Health has announced the recovery of the first Filipino 2019 coronavirus disease case. In a statement, the DOH said patient 14, a 46-year-old male who was admitted on March 5 in Makati Medical Center and tested positive on March 9, now tested negative for COVID-19. He had started exhibiting symptoms on Feb. 25. He is now asymptomatic. The DOH reported […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern and Central Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Bicol Region, Aurora, Quezon, Marinduque and Oriental Mindoro will have cloudy skies with light rains as a result. PAGASA said Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon on the other hand will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Visayas and Mindanao, PAGASA said, woll have partly cloudy […]
