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(Eagle News) — Another employee of the Government Service Insurance System has tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, bringing the total number of cases there to two. According to GSIS president and general manager Rolando Macasaet, the new case was a male employee from the main office in Pasay. He said the patient was now confined in the Las Pinas General Hospital. The GSIS’ first case was a female employee who had a travel history […]
(Eagle News) — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III is on self-quarantine for coronavirus disease 2019. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Duque was tested for the disease even if he was asymptomatic because he was “asthmatic and hypertensive.” The results are expected in a few days. Duque , Vergeire said, is working from home. Earlier, the Department of Health said one of its directors had tested positive for COVID-19. The agency gave the assurance its […]
by Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan Agence France-Presse OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) —Sub-Saharan Africa has recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organization urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”. “Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday, pointing out that “in other countries, we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain […]
(Eagle News)–There are now 11 Filipinos who tested positive for the 2019 coronavirus disease in Singapore, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. The DFA said this was after a Filipino national tested positive for COVID-19 on March 17. The patient is currently confined in a hospital and is in isolation, the DFA said. Of the 11, the DFA said two have recovered, which means nine are COVID-19 active cases. One of them was discharged on […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The city of Venice is enjoying crystal clear waters in its world-famous canals due to a lack of debris from tourists and near-zero boat traffic under Italy’s ongoing coronavirus lockdown. The clear waters are a tiny bright spot in the beleaguered but beautiful city, whose economy has been virtually wiped out since tourists fled the area beginning last month, spooked by the spread of coronavirus in the country’s north. Since March […]
Jerome Kim, the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea, sits with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to discuss the steps and measures being taking by the scientific community to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Kim says it is ‘kind of remarkable’ that new coronavirus vaccine research is at the ‘pre-clinical stage’ as the world scrambles to find a solution to the outbreak.
(Eagle News) — There is no scientific basis that would support claims that eating bananas can cure or prevent being infected with the coronavirus disease, a senior official of the Department of Health said. Health Assistant Secretary Dr. Maria Rosario Vergeire said that there is no evidence, as of now, that would show that bananas can prevent being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Vergeire said this as various claims on supposed cures for […]
(Eagle News) – The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has climbed to almost 200,00 with coronavirus infections reaching 155 countries, according to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) virus dashboard. The tally was as of March 18, and also showed that almost 82,000 cases recovered from the disease, or 81,961 to be exact. Total deaths were at 7,954. The total confirmed cases worldwide hit 198,179, the Johns Hopkins University data showed with the most […]
French professor and researcher, Dr. Jocelyn Raude, sits down with Agence France-Presse (AFP), to explain the psychology of “Collective fear” and panic behavior. “There are contagion effects on the social level: this small minority generates a feeling of concern spread to the rest of the population through the mobilization of resources for basic necessities.” Dr. Raude also explains the difference between the elderly (most affect by the virus) and the youth about their fears. “When […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of the Ombudsman in Quezon City will be closed until April 13. A public announcement by the Ombudsman’s Media Affairs Office said the closure also of its offices in Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Tacloban, and Cagayan de Oro was pursuant to President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of a Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine, and the declarations of other local executives to place their localities under a general community quarantine. “During this time, the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Gamers breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after the end of a network outage that affected Nintendo’s online games, with internet-based systems under increasing pressure from people staying home over coronavirus. “The issue with our network services has now been fixed. Thank you for your patience!” tweeted Nintendo on its European Twitter account, with similar messages posted on its other accounts. The hours-long outage affected its online games but also […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Wednesday, March 18, recorded six new coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country, bringing the total number of those infected to 193. Of the total number of cases, the DOH said seven have recovered and 14 have died. President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the country under a state of calamity in order to mobilize the government’s resources against COVID-19. Under the proclamation declaring the state of calamity, […]
