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(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo on Saturday, March 7, called on the public to remain calm and exercise precautionary measures following the confirmation of two new novel coronavirus cases in the country. “Alam kong marami sa inyo, nangangamba sa mga napapanood at nababasa ninyong balita araw-araw tungkol sa coronavirus disease o COVID-19. May mga dumadagdag pa rin sa listahan ng apektado ng sakit na ito. Pero sa bawat araw na lumilipas, sa pagsisikap ng mga […]
(Eagle News) — The number of confirmed novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections worldwide is now at 102,180 with reported deaths succumbing to the virus complications at almost 3,500, as of Saturday, March 7, 2020. Based on the monitoring by the John Hopkins University compiling information from various official sources, those who died from COVID-19 is at 3,491 as before noon Saturday, with those recovering from the disease at 57,389. Mainland China still has […]
(Eagle News)–Over 100 Filipinos will be repatriated from Macau on Saturday, March 7. The government said the 167 Filipinos–composed of 137 undocumented and irregular Filipino workers and 30 personnel from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration–were among those stranded when travel restrictions were imposed amid the threat of the novel coronavirus. The Philippines has imposed a travel ban on China, Macau, Hong Kong, among other places as protective measures. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the […]
Gives assurance gov’t is doing its job (Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, March 7, called on the public to be calm, refrain from sharing unverified information, and exercise protective measures against the novel coronavirus. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the Department of Health confirmed two more COVID-19 cases in the country. One was a 48-year-old Filipino male with a travel history from Japan and the other, a 62-year-old Filipino male in San […]
(Eagle News)–A business process outsourcing firm has confirmed one of its employees in its Taguig office has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. It was unclear, however, if the employee of Deloitte Philippines based in Bonifacio Global City was among the two new COVID-19 cases announced by the Department of Health on Friday. “We confirm that a colleague in our Deloitte Philippines office has tested positive for COVID-19,” the firm, which offers management consultancy and […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, March 6, formed five separate teams to do extensive contact tracing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after it has confirmed two more positive cases, including a Filipino who has no travel history outside the country. Aside from the contact tracing for the two Filipinos with COVID-19, the DOH teams will also trace the persons who may have had contact with three foreign nationals – a […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government is ready to repatriate the around 500 Filipinos who were stranded off California in the United States amid novel coronavirus fears. So far, though, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said no request for the repatriation of the Filipinos on board the Grand Princess cruise ship had been made. The cruise ship, which was quarantined after one of its passengers died due to COVID-19, carried an estimated 3500 people. “Kung hinihingi […]
(Eagle News) –No need for alarm. This was the reaction of the Palace on Friday. March 6, following the Department of Health’s announcement two more novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the country. According to the DOH, one was a 48-year-old male Filipino with travel history to Japan, while the other was a 62-year-old male Filipino in San Juan City, who had no travel history, prompting the agency to say a local transmission was […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has recorded two more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to five. The Department of Health also noted that two of the three foreign nationals who were confirmed to have COVID-19 and who were reported to have a travel history to the Philippines may have contracted the disease somewhere else. In a press briefing on Friday, March 6, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the Philippines’ […]
(Eagle News) – The persons confirmed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines have now gone up to five after the positive test results on two additional cases, the fifth being a Filipino who had no travel history outside the country, the Department of Health announced on Friday, March 6. The latest development is significant because the fifth case, a 62-year old male Filipino who tested positive with COVID-19 on March 5, […]
(Eagle News) A Taiwanese national who travelled to the Philippines with his friends from Feb. 28 to March 3 was found to be positive with the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) when he came back to Taiwan. This was according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. In a statement, it said that the over 30-year old Taiwanese national, which it referred to as Case #44, resides in northern Taiwan but came to the […]
by Dmitry Zaks, with Laurent Thomet in Beijing Agence France Presse Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home on Thursday with Italy the latest country to shut schools over the deadly new coronavirus, as the IMF urged an all-out global offensive against the epidemic. More than 95,000 people have been infected and over 3,200 have died worldwide from the virus, which has now reached some 80 countries and territories. In California, Governor […]
