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(Eagle News)–Senator Sherwin Gatchalian tested negative for the 2019 coronavirus disease. “After submitting myself to a COVID-19 test last Friday, I’m happy to hear from the pronouncements made by Health Secretary Francisco Duque just this morning that I tested negative for the disease,” Gatchalian said. According to Gatchalian, this was based on tests done on him by the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine. Gatchalian underwent tests after one of the resource persons at a […]
(Eagle News) – Only two confirmed coronavirus cases—one of them a Philippine senator- were added on Monday, March 16, the first working day of a supposed community quarantine in Metro Manila that was later updated to a stricter enhanced community quarantine for the whole of Luzon. The Department of Health said that the two new confirmed cases included Philippine senator Juan Miguel Zubiri who also went public on television Monday night to say that […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte tasked all local government officials – from mayors down to the barangay officials – to send out food to their constituents who are affected by the Luzon-wide month-long enhanced community quarantine that took effect Tuesday, March 17, 2020. “The barangay captains should call a number and at least food, rice and some — yung ulam pwede ninyong ibigay sana para sa ating mga kababayan,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in […]
PHL records two additional COVID-19 cases recorded, bringing number to 142 (Eagle News)–The Department of Health has announced the recovery of the first Filipino 2019 coronavirus disease case. In a statement, the DOH said patient 14, a 46-year-old male who was admitted on March 5 in Makati Medical Center and tested positive on March 9, now tested negative for COVID-19. He had started exhibiting symptoms on Feb. 25. He is now asymptomatic. The DOH reported […]
by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) — Air pollution from petrol and diesel vehicles is likely to increase mortality from the novel coronavirus in cities, public health experts told AFP Monday. The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) warned that dirty air in urban areas that causes hypertension, diabetes and other respiratory illness could lead to a higher overall death toll from the virus currently sweeping the world. Emissions from petrol and diesel engines were still […]
(Eagle News) — Public utilities are extending bill payment extensions in view of the Luzon-wide community quarantine imposed by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19. In a customer advisory released Monday, March 16, MERALCO announced that it will provide a 30-day payment extension for all electric bills due from March 1 to April 14, 2020. “Stay safe and healthy; stay home,” the MERALCO advisory stated, adding that customers may use its online and […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s coronavirus outbreak Monday killed a member of the clerical body that appoints the supreme leader, state media said, taking the death toll among serving and ex-officials to at least 12. Ayatollah Hashem Bathayi Golpayegani, who was 78, died two days after testing positive for the COVID-19 disease and being hospitalised, state news agency IRNA reported. The official represented Tehran in the Assembly of Experts, an 88-strong body of clerics […]
(Eagle News) -Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday, March 16, tested positive for the 2019 coronavirus disease. Zubiri himself said this in a Facebook post, after he received the information from Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. He said he took the test on Friday. “I want people to know that this is not a laughing matter. It’s not a joke. Itong virus na to napakadaling mahawa. Imagine, ingat na ingat na ako. I was very […]
(Eagle News) – What is the difference between an enhanced community quarantine and a general quarantine? According to guidelines contained in a memorandum released by Malacanang on Saturday, March 14, the enhanced community quarantine would mean the following: 1. Strict home quarantine shall be implemented in all households; 2. Transportation shall be suspended; 3. Provision for food and essential health services shall be regulated; and 4. Heightened presence of uniformed personnel to enforce quarantine […]
https://youtu.be/eLRtQnOmbI0 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) — Models strutted the ramp with adhesive glittering rhinestones stuck around their mouths arranged in the shape of surgical face masks as the coronavirus pandemic took centre stage at a fashion week in Cape Town. Veteran South African designer Gavin Rajah on Thursday night used the stage at the African International Fashion Week in Cape Town, to highlight to the division and potential racism that protective surgical masks […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to make new announcements on the 2019 coronavirus disease, Senator Bong Go said on Monday, March 16. Go did not give a specific time but said the President would make the address after his meeting with officials of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), military and police. “Maraming mga bagong pronouncement ang ating Pangulo. Abangan n’yo po,” Go said. Metro Manila is on […]
Singapore, Singapore (AFP) — Oil prices extended the gloom on Monday after a Saudi-Russian price war and an equities meltdown sparked by the coronavirus pandemic saw their biggest weekly losses in more than a decade. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) briefly fell below $30 a barrel, or 5.5 percent, in morning Asian trade before regaining its footing. It was trading at $31.14 a barrel at around 0200 GMT, down nearly two percent from Friday’s […]
