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by Tania Lee Agence France Presse MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Anyone venturing out in Australia’s second-biggest city was ordered Thursday to wear a mask as authorities struggle to contain multiple coronavirus clusters in the country’s southeast. Most people seen by AFP on the quiet streets of Melbourne’s city centre wore masks in the second week of a six-week local lockdown. Victoria state, of which Melbourne is the capital, recorded 422 coronavirus cases on Thursday […]
Two other employees test positive for virus, university confirms (Eagle News)–An employee of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila has died due to COVID-19, while two others tested positive for the virus. The university confirmed the death of the 57-year-old woman who last reported to work on July 9, and experienced flu-like symptoms on July 11, in a statement posted on its Facebook account. “Her symptoms worsened the following week, which led to her taking […]
(Eagle News) — Another House employee who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. According to House Secretary General Jose Luis Montales, the employee passed away on Thursday, July 23, six days after he was hospitalized for exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. “We are deeply saddened to know that he passed away early this morning,” Montales said. He said the employee from the Bills and Index Service had been working from home since June 18 but had returned […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is seeking around P13.5 billion for its National Broadband Program. In a statement, the department said it had recommended the allocation of the P13,491,357,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2021 to allow for digitization improvements amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal was a huge increase from the current budget allocation for the NBP, or P296,461,000. “The call for faster and more accessible Internet connectivity has never been […]
(Eagle News)–The city of San Fernando in La Union has been placed under an enhanced community quarantine due to the rising cases of COVID-19 there. In making the declaration through Executive Order No. 46 series of 2020, Governor Francisco Emmanuel Ortega III noted the six new COVID-19 cases reported on July 20 that brought the number of active cases there to 14. Ortega noted that the ECQ, which started on July 21 and will last […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil recorded a new daily record of coronavirus cases Wednesday with nearly 68,000 infections, a sign COVID-19 is still far from being brought under control in the hard-hit country. The health ministry said 67,860 new infections and 1,284 deaths had been reported in the past 24 hours in Brazil, which has the second-biggest outbreak in the world after the United States. The South American country of 212 million people has recorded […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong reported 113 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, a new daily record as a sudden surge in cases shows no signs of slowing despite ramped up social distancing rules. The finance hub was one of the first places to be struck by the virus when it emerged from central China. But the city had impressive success in tackling the disease, all but ending local transmissions by late June. However, […]
(Eagle News) — For the first time, in five days, or since July 18, the reported COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila went below 1,000, or 971 cases to be exact. This was as the Department of Health reported 1,594 COVID-19 cases, Wednesday, July 22, bringing the total virus cases in the country to 72,269. On July 18, COVID-19 cases reported in Metro Manila were 1,824. The following day, the cases in the Philippine capital were […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — A Chinese-made vaccine against the new coronavirus entered the final stage of testing Tuesday in Brazil, where volunteers received the first doses of what officials hope will be a game-changer in the global pandemic. The vaccine, developed by private Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, became the third in the world to enter Phase 3 clinical trials, or large-scale testing on humans — the last step before regulatory approval. “We’re living […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — Bolivian police said on Tuesday they recovered more than 400 bodies from streets and homes over a five-day period, with 85 percent of the dead believed to have had coronavirus. A total of 191 bodies were recovered in the Cochabamba metropolitan area alone from July 15-20, with another 141 collected in La Paz, national police director Coronel Ivan Rojas told journalists. In the country’s biggest city, Santa Cruz, authorities […]
by Damon Wake, with AFP Bureaus Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — European leaders on Tuesday agreed a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies, as US President Donald Trump finally came out in favour of face masks as a tool against the coronavirus. The virus has infected more than 14.7 million people and killed over 610,000 of them since emerging in China late last year, with fresh alarm being sounded over its accelerating […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, July 21, said the conduct of limited face-to-face classes will be allowed starting January 2021, although private schools that already started conducting the same in June 2020 will be allowed to continue. The Palace added the localized face-to-face classes–which should only be “intermittent” and shall complement distance learning–shall only be allowed in low-risk areas or those that are already at least under a modified general community quarantine or in […]
