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(Eagle News) — The two cruise ships that arrived at a Manila pier from China have been declared safe by the Bureau of Quarantine, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The PCG said the World Dream Cruise Ship from Hong Kong and the MV Ligulao from Lianyungang in Jiangsu were free from the novel coronavirus that has gripped China and other parts of the world, based on the BOQ’s mandatory inspection. The […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 106 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world. Here are the places that have confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: CHINA As of Tuesday, more than 4,000 people have been infected across China, the bulk of them in and around Wuhan. Most of the 106 who have died were in […]
NORTH SHIELDS, United Kingdom (AFP) – Roland JACKSON / William EDWARDS Just before dawn, the Good Fellowship trawler casts its nets deep into the North Sea’s cold swirling waters, fishing for prawns off England’s northeast coast. Britain finally departs the European Union on Friday but remains bound by the bloc’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) until the end of a transition period on December 31. The Good Fellowship’s captain, David Shiel, is cautiously hopeful that Brexit […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Tuesday postponed the start of the spring semester for schools and universities across the country over concerns about a deadly virus outbreak. The decision came as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to 106 and the total number of cases surpassed 4,000 nationwide. Students are currently on holiday for the Lunar New Year and the education ministry did not provide a date for teaching to resume. But […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China has soared to 106 while nearly 1,300 new cases have been confirmed, authorities said Tuesday. The health commission in central Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic, said 24 more people had died from the virus and 1,291 more people were infected, raising the total number of confirmed cases to more than 4,000 nationwide. © Agence France-Presse
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish prosecutors are investigating dozens of people for “provocative” social media messages about the deadly earthquake in eastern Turkey, reports said Monday. The death toll from Friday’s quake in Elazig province reached 41 people as rescue teams pulled the body of the last missing person from under the rubble, the country’s disaster agency said. The Ankara prosecutor’s office is investigating 50 individuals on suspicion of “spreading fear and panic” and “insulting […]
MOLSHEIM, France (AFP) – Marc Antoine BAUDOUX Supercar manufacturer Bugatti, fresh off one of its best years, wants the world to know it has taken environmental concerns to heart even as it prepares a next generation of heart-pounding — and gas-guzzling — speed machines. The French automaker has implemented a series of measures to offset the carbon emitted by the 81 racers it produced last year, including a shift to biogas and other green energy […]
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AFP) — Small earthquakes and a so-called “inflation” of the mountain, signaling a potential volcanic eruption, have been reported near Iceland’s famous “Blue Lagoon,” local authorities said Monday. The Icelandic Met Office declared a state of uncertainty over the weekend, following days of several smaller earthquakes and swelling of the mountain. Alert levels for aviation were also raised from “green” to “yellow,” defined as when a volcano “is experiencing signs of elevated unrest […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines will not evacuate Filipinos from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, pending China’s decision on the matter, Senator Bong Go has said. According to Go, “hinihintay ng (Department of Foreign Affairs) officials ano ang magiging desisyon ng China dahil sila ang ‘di pumayag na sunduin ang 30-50 Filipinos [roon] na gusto na umuwi.” Go clarified that he wanted the Filipinos to come home because “kawawa [rin] sila dun parang naka-lockdown […]
by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — China’s capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic. The fatality in Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more than 2,700 people infected across the nation. Cases have […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization said Monday it remained unclear if the deadly coronavirus spreading in China and beyond is contagious during its incubation period before symptoms appear. The virus, which can cause a pneumonia-like acute respiratory infection, has in a matter of weeks killed more than 80 people and infected some 2,740 in China, while cases have been identified in more than a dozen other countries. In a fresh report on […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck Leyte on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 4:50 a.m., had its epicenter 10 kilometers northeast of Kananga. It had a depth of focus of 14 kilometers. An instrumental intensity II was recorded in Ormoc. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
