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BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — A Yanomami indigenous boy has died after contracting the coronavirus, authorities in Brazil said Friday, raising fears for the Amazon tribe, which is known for its vulnerability to disease. The 15-year-old boy, the first Yanomami to be diagnosed with the virus, was hospitalized a week ago at an intensive care unit in Boa Vista, the capital of the northern state of Roraima, officials said. He died of severe respiratory complications […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health in Central Visayas said that the second test on the five-year old Chinese boy who first tested positive for the coronavirus showed he is now negative of the disease. But despite the negative result of the second swab test done earlier on the boy, it is still important to wait for the confirmatory test result that the country had sent to Australia, said the DOH. The second swab […]
(Eagle News)–A 7-year-old boy was hurt after a fire hit a residential area in Valenzuela on Friday, March 22. Authorities have yet to identify the boy who suffered first-degree burns in the fire that razed Sitio Libis General T. de Leon around 10:20 a.m. The blaze reached the fifth alarm. It was put out past noon. Fire authorities have yet to determine the cause of the blaze, and the cost of damage to property.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte became a grandfather once again after his daughter gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Thursday. Davao Mayor Sara Duterte gave birth to the presidential grandson via Cesarean section at 12:56 p.m. The boy weighs 2.42 kilos or 5.3 pounds, and is reportedly stable and generally fine. The Davao mayor is married to fellow lawyer Manases Carpio, who is the nephew of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A seven-year-old boy missing since his parents abandoned him in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan as a punishment nearly a week ago was found alive on Friday, officials said. The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered inside a military base at about 7:50 am (2250 GMT Thursday), a police spokesman said. “A Self-Defence Force official who was on a drill found a boy whose age appeared to […]
