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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — An Australian supermarket chain will start opening its doors exclusively to customers over 60-years-old for one hour a day as part of an effort to ease the burden of panic-buying on the most vulnerable. “Woolworths Supermarkets will be opening exclusively for the elderly and those with a disability to shop from 7am to 8am,” the company said in a statement Monday. The measure is expected to come into effect on Tuesday […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to make new announcements on the 2019 coronavirus disease, Senator Bong Go said on Monday, March 16. Go did not give a specific time but said the President would make the address after his meeting with officials of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), military and police. “Maraming mga bagong pronouncement ang ating Pangulo. Abangan n’yo po,” Go said. Metro Manila is on […]
(Eagle News)–The H5N6 avian influenza or bird flu has been detected in a barangay in Nueva Ecija, the Department of Agriculture said on Monday, March 16. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the samples from a farm in Barangay Ulanin-Pitak, Jaen tested positive for avian influenza. The samples were subjected to tests on Friday, March 13, after the deaths of around 1,500 quails in the area on March 9. The agency has imposed a 1-kilometer radius […]
Singapore, Singapore (AFP) — Oil prices extended the gloom on Monday after a Saudi-Russian price war and an equities meltdown sparked by the coronavirus pandemic saw their biggest weekly losses in more than a decade. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) briefly fell below $30 a barrel, or 5.5 percent, in morning Asian trade before regaining its footing. It was trading at $31.14 a barrel at around 0200 GMT, down nearly two percent from Friday’s […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia said Sunday that more than half the country’s 428 coronavirus cases were linked to an international Islamic gathering held last month. The Southeast Asian nation announced a spike of 190 new infections over the weekend, mostly linked to a global Islamic event attended by almost 20,000 people. “Of the 428 cases, 243 are participants from the religious event in Sri Petaling mosque,” Noor Hisham Abdullah, director-general of the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — King Felipe VI of Spain moved Sunday to distance himself from his scandal-hit father, stripping him of his palace allowance and renouncing what he was due to inherit from him. The announcement came after reports earlier this month in the Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve that former monarch Juan Carlos had received 100 million dollars (90 million euros) from Saudi Arabia via an offshore account. The money was lodged in a […]
OFWs on first-time deployment to mainland China, students, dependents of OFWs and tourists still banned (Eagle News)–Overseas Filipino Workers are now allowed to return to China, except to the province of Hubei, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA,Filipino government officials who are on official travel to China are also now allowed to travel there. OFWs who seek first-time deployment to mainland China, students, dependents of OFWs and tourists are not included […]
(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 to 100 meters high before drifting southwest.” The Taal Volcano Network also recorded 13 volcanic earthquakes that are “associated with rock fracturing processes beneath and around the edifice.” Two of these events, which happened at 3:11 […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Portugal will close its border with Spain to tourists for at least a month to curb the spread of coronavirus, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said Sunday. Goods and people traveling for work will still be allowed to cross the border but not those on leisure trips, he told a news conference after speaking by videoconference with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez. “There will be no tourism between Portugal and Spain […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Health has reported an additional death due to the 2019 coronavirus disease, bringing the total to 12. In a statement, the DOH identified the fatality as Patient 12, a 56-year-old Filipino male who died of acute respiratory distress syndrome. According to the DOH, Patient 12, who was reported to have preexisting asthma, began experiencing fever and cough on February 29. He tested positive for the disease on March 9 and was […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy on Sunday recorded 368 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, its highest one-day increase to date, taking the total to 1,809, the most outside China, official data showed. The number of infections has reached 24,747, a count released to the media by Italy’s civil protection service said. The northern Lombardy region around Milan remained the European epicenter of the pandemic, officially reporting 1,218 deaths or 67 percent of the Italian […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Food has been quickly disappearing from US supermarket shelves in signs of panic-buying but President Donald Trump and other government and industry officials assured on Sunday that the supply chain is intact and there’s plenty of food. “You don’t have to buy so much… Relax,” Trump said at a press conference of his new-coronavirus task force, after speaking with CEOs of major US supermarkets and food companies such as Walmart […]
