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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — An 11-year-old girl has become Indonesia’s youngest person to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s death toll from COVID-19 nearly tripled from a week ago. The girl, who was also suffering from dengue fever, was admitted to hospital on Madura Island off the coast of Java on March 19. She had a fever and and breathing difficulties, and died the following day. Tests only confirmed […]
(Eagle News) – Total confirmed coronavirus cases in the country again rose dramatically, climbing to 2,311 after the addition of 227 new cases, the Department of Health said. The DOH also reported eight additional COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday, April 1, bringing the total fatalities to 96. One patient, a 59-year old Filipino male from Taguig City, also recovered. Patient no. 179 had no travel history. He was discharged after two negative test results […]
(Eagle News) – Interior Secretary Eduardo Año condemned the recent attack on a health worker in Sultan Kudarat over fears about the coronavirus, and warned those who threaten or attack health workers that they would face the full force of the law. Año said that he had already asked the police to look for the suspects in the case in Tacurong City where a health worker of St. Louis Hospital had been attacked by […]
(Eagle News)–Over 800 Filipino seafarers who were stranded in the United States have arrived in the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. The DFA said the 881 sailors were from various cruise ships stranded due to the coronavirus 2019 pandemic. Of the number, 445 are from Norwegian Cruises Dawn and Encore, and another 436 from MV Magica and MV Favolosa. “The DFA and the Philippine Embassy in Washington DC closely coordinated with the Department […]
DOH amends protocol, algorithm on COVID-19 PUIs (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) has changed its protocol and algorithm on the persons to be given tests for COVID-19 to include medical and health practitioners who are waging the war against the virus in the frontlines. Health Undersecretary Dr. Maria Rosario Vergeire said that health workers, including doctors and nurses, who exhibit even mild respiratory symptoms of the disease should be immediately tested […]
Washington, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned of a “very painful” two weeks as the United States wrestles with a coronavirus surge that the White House warns could kill as many as 240,000 Americans. “This is going to be a very painful, a very, very painful two weeks,” Trump told a press conference at the White House. Trump described the pandemic as “a plague.” “I want every American to be prepared […]
By Agence France Presse The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world. Guterres said that the scale of the crisis was due to “a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and… an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past.” “The combination […]
by Peter HUTCHISON Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Emergency field hospitals have begun going up in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open, as the number of coronavirus deaths in America on Tuesday surpassed those reported by China. The pandemic has killed some 1,000 New Yorkers and America’s financial capital is in a race against time to dramatically ramp up hospital capacity before cases hit […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Strict containment measures might have already saved up to 59,000 lives across 11 European countries battling the spread of the new coronavirus, experts in Britain say. Basing their modelling on the numbers of recorded deaths from COVID-19, researchers from Imperial College London said most countries it looked at had likely dramatically reduced the rate at which the virus spreads. Using the experiences of countries with the most advanced epidemics like […]
(Eagle News) – Total COVID-19 cases in Quezon City rose to 140, with 26 coronavirus-related deaths, its local government said. There are so far 66 out of the 142 total barangays in the city with confirmed coronavirus cases, it said citing data as of 11 p.m. of March 30, 2020. It also reported at least 70 persons under investigation (PUIs), and 367 persons under monitoring (PUMs). -18 bgys placed under extreme enhanced community quarantine- […]
(Eagle News) – Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., had tested positive for COVID-19 but is already getting better, his spokesperson said on Tuesday, March 31. Atty. Victor Rodriguez, his spokesman, said that the former senator is currently in self-isolation and is strictly following quarantine protocols since he arrived in the country from a European trip. He said that Marcos received his positive test results on March 28 from the Research Institute for […]
Biggest single-day jump for COVID-19 cases in PHL so far (Eagle News) – Coronavirus cases continued to rise in the country with the expanded COVID-19 testing as total cases reached 2,084, with the addition of 538 new cases – the biggest single-day jump in cases so far, the Department of Health said. The latest data as of 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, also included seven new recoveries in the country. This brings to 49 […]
