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ROME, Italy (AFP) — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday that Rome was allocating 25 billion euros ($28.3 billion) to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed 631 people in Italy. “We have allocated an emergency sum of 25 billion euros,” Conte told reporters during a break in a meeting on the government’s response to the rapidly escalating health crisis. The entire sum “will not all be used immediately,” Conte added. Economy Minister Roberto […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 16 new additional cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Wednesday, March 11, bringing to 49 the total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country. Health Assistant Secretary Dra. Maria Rosario Vergeire said that they are still completing the information on the new cases, and are now conducting more extensive contact tracing of the cases. “The DOH and deployed surveillance teams are now conductive extensive information-gathering and […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) –Ukraine’s capital Kiev announced Wednesday it was closing schools and universities until the end of March to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. “We are introducing preventive measures in Kiev as of March 12,” mayor Vitaly Klitschko said, saying classes would be suspended in schools and universities until the end of March. Kindergartens, movie theatres and entertainment centers will also be closed and mass events canceled, Klitschko said on Facebook. “Even […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The head of the Lombardy region around Milan urged the Italian government Wednesday to shut down all non-essential businesses and transport for 15 days in the industrial north to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus. The appeal from Attilio Fontana came as Italy’s death toll from the new disease shot up to 631 and infections surpassed 10,000, the worst numbers after China. The Italian fashion and financial capital Milan has […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing on Wednesday ordered people arriving in the city from any country to go into 14-day quarantine as China reported an increase in imported coronavirus cases, threatening its progress against the epidemic. China has made major strides in its battle against the virus, prompting President Xi Jinping to visit Wuhan, the central city at the heart of the global epidemic, on Tuesday and declare that it has “basically curbed” the spread […]
(Eagle News) — Classes on Thursday, March 12, were suspended in some areas as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Below is a list: Capas, Tarlac- all levels, public and private (March 11 to 14) Metro Manila- all levels, public and private (March 11 to 14) Rizal – all levels, public and private (March 12 to 19) The Philippines has so far confirmed 33 COVID-19 cases.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Belgium has recorded its first death from the novel coronavirus strain that is sweeping the globe, health officials said Wednesday. Maggie De Block, health minister in the caretaker federal government, said the victim was 90 years old. The ministry is to hold a news conference later in the day, but as of Tuesday Belgium had recorded 267 cases of the coronavirus strain that causes COVID-19 disease. China remains the hardest-hit country […]
RABAT, Morocco (AFP) — Morocco’s health ministry said Tuesday the country had recorded its first death linked to the new coronavirus, an 89-year-old woman who suffered from chronic health problems. The woman, a Moroccan citizen who had been living in Italy, “suffered from chronic illnesses affecting the respiratory and cardiovascular system”, the ministry said in a statement. She returned to Morocco in late February, before testing positive for the virus and being transferred under medical […]
Localized lockdown to happen only if Code Red alert sublevel 2 is raised (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) is now studying the possibility of declaring a localized lockdown in certain areas in the country as it determines if there are clustering of cases. The department is also closely studying the new cases, especially those with no history of travel abroad, to determine if there is already a “community transmission” in certain […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll from the collapse of a coronavirus quarantine hotel in east China rose to 26 on Wednesday, with three more people feared still trapped in the rubble, according to state media. Dozens of people were pulled alive from the wreckage of the six-storey Xinjian hotel in the coastal city of Quanzhou but 26 others were either found dead in the ruins or have since died of their injuries, the […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Energy giant Saudi Aramco said Wednesday it plans to raise its crude production capacity by one million barrels per day to 13 million BPD as a price war with Russia intensifies. “Saudi Aramco announces that it received a directive from the ministry of energy to increase its maximum sustainable capacity from 12 million BPD to 13 million BPD,” the company said in a statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange. The […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenya’s only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world. The bodies of the two giraffes were found “in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers” in Garissa in eastern Kenya, the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy said in a statement. Their deaths leave just one remaining white giraffe alive […]
