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by Helen Roxburgh with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s leaders staged a triumphant ceremony to celebrate beating the coronavirus on Tuesday as billions of people around the world still suffer the fallout from the pandemic and the global death toll nears 900,000. The upbeat mood in Beijing comes as concerns grow about a resurgence of the virus across Europe, with France tightening restrictions, cases in Britain spiking and schools […]
(Eagle News)–Sorsogon Rep. Ditas Ramos has passed away after she tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement was made by House Deputy Majority Leader Xavier Jesus Romualdo during the plenary session on Tuesday, Sept. 8. It came two days after House Secretary-General Jose Luis Montales said the Sorsogon lawmaker tested positive for the respiratory disease. He had said she had developed symptoms and got tested in the province. Montales also said another House of Representatives staff […]
(Eagle News)–Branch 133 of the Makati Regional Trial closed is physically closed until Sept. 11. A memorandum from Executive Judge Ethel Mercado Gutay said the temporary closure, which started on Sept. 7, was after a staff member of the branch tested positive for COVID-19. She said this was for purposes of contact tracing and disinfection. “During the affected days, transactions with the branch may be done through their official hotline numbers and judiciary/email accounts to […]
(Eagle News) — The Ambassador of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) in Manila, His Excellency Songkane Luangmuninthone, talks about the situation of Filipinos in his country, and how Lao PDR had managed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in this interview by ASEAN in Focus anchor Alma Angeles. The Ambassador said that the virus lockdown in his country has already been lifted, and people can now go back to normal life. Lao PDR […]
(Eagle News) — Antonio Sanchez, who was convicted of the murder and rape of two University of the Philippines students in the 1990s, has been transferred to the Jose Rizal Memorial Medical Center for further tests. In a Facebook post, the Bureau of Corrections said the former mayor of Calauan, Laguna was transferred for referral to a nephrologist and a sputum exam on the evening of Friday, September 4. BuCor said the transfer was made […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India has become the world’s third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday as the crisis shows no sign of peaking. The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million. While the government has eased restrictions in a bid to revive […]
A group of pharmaceutical companies give an update on their research to find a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, with US giant Pfizer saying it could have results from its late-stage vaccine trial as early as October
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has launched its official contact tracing program, StaySafe.ph application, which is considered a game changer to the country’s COVID-19 response, Malacanang said. Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque, Jr. said this official contact tracing app was launched on Sept. 2 at SM Manila. He said that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) as early as June 2020 had reaffirmed its policy on the use […]
Ni Haydee Jipolan Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Pinasalamatan ni Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte ang United States Agency for International Development o and USAID sa tulong at suporta nila sa City Government of Davao, sa Davao City Health Office, sa Department of Health, at sa Southern Philippines Medical Center na tumanggap ng mga Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) na kanilang ibinigay. Matatandaan na kamakailan lang ay nagpadala si US Ambassador Sung Kim ng hygiene […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte called on various economies to address the twin threats of COVID-19 and terrorism amid the virus pandemic by becoming more open economically with the proper observance of health protocols, and to engage in stronger cooperation among nations. In his statement during the Aqaba Process Virtual Meeting on COVID-19 response hosted by Jordanian King Abdullah II, President Duterte called for global unity to address terrorism and COVID-19 not by […]
Ni Pearl Lozada Eagle News Service CAVITE, Philppines (Eagle News) – Umalma ang maraming Caviteño sa kasalukuyang pagsasaayos ng Bacoor Coliseum na nasa loob ng isang residential area upang maging isang 90-bed space isolation facility para sa mild at asymptomatic cases ng COVID-19. At dahil ang Camella Springville Subdivision ay napaliligiran hindi lamang ng mga bahay kundi ng business establishment, nangangamba ang marami na gawin itong quarantine facility. Ayon sa ilang residente, hindi umano sila […]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) — A person on a poorly ventilated Chinese bus infected nearly two dozen other passengers with coronavirus even though many weren’t sitting close by, according to research published on Tuesday that offers fresh evidence the disease can spread in the air. Health authorities had initially discounted the possibility that simply breathing could send infectious micro-droplets into the air, but did a U-turn as experts piled on pressure and evidence mounted. […]
