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Eagle News) – The “We Heal as One Center” at the Philippine Arena complex in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue, Bulacan is on “advanced stage of completion,” according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). In its Facebook and Twitter posts on Sunday night, April 26, the DPWH said that the quarantine facilities for COVID-19 at the Ciudad de Victoria are near completion. It also showed a video of the work done so […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll dropped to 288 on Sunday, the lowest since March 20, as the country eased its lockdown to allow children outside for the first time in six weeks. The health ministry said the figure dropped from 378 on Saturday and brought Spain’s total toll to 23,190, the third highest number of deaths after the United States and Italy. The news came as the country took the […]
(Eagle News) – The Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) has resumed full operations after downscaling for about a week, the Department of Health said. “Ngayon po ay full operations na po uli ang RITM. Fully functional na po sila,” said DOH Spokesperson Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a virtual press briefing on Sunday, April 26. She said only two of the 43 infected RITM personnel have yet to finish their quarantine, while none of […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has risen to 7579, after the Department of Health reported 285 new cases. The DOH said the country has recorded 862 recoveries, including the 70 new ones. Over 500-or 501–deaths have been recorded, including the seven new deaths. The DOH has said it was too early to say if the country was flattening the COVID-19 curve, but said there were indications. President Rodrigo Duterte […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) reminded local government units of the ban against including infant formula donations in the distribution of emergency food packs to their constituents. “[W]hile milk donations per se are not prohibited items for distribution to communities, infant formula milk donations are banned under the regulations issued by the Department of Health and adopted by the DILG”, the department said in a statement. “May ilang LGUs […]
by Gaël Branchereau with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse The World Health Organization warned on Saturday that recovery from coronavirus might not protect a person from reinfection as the global death toll from the pandemic surpassed 200,000. Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world spent the second day of the Ramadan holy month out of mosques and avoiding large family meals to break the fast because of sequestration and social distancing policies. And […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has secured a loan agreement from the Asian Development Bank that would enable the country to get $1.5 billion budgetary support for its efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic. This came in time as funds to support the government’s programs to beat COVID-19 and to support its people under lockdown as President Rodrigo Duterte decided to extend the enhanced community quarantine in the Philippine capital of Metro Manila and […]
by Paul Handley with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million people and left half of humanity under some form of lockdown. The scale of the pandemic has forced medical research […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported 152 new COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos, mostly from the Middle East, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,337 as of Saturday, April 25. In a statement, the DFA said that for the past month, “an increasing trend of confirmed cases has been noted with an average of 37 cases per day, while there is a steady rate of recoveries and deaths at […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines formally received today, Saturday, April 25, 700 units of Q-Sens 2019-nCoV Detection Kits from South Korea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced. “The COVID-19 test kits, which can yield a total of 35,000 tests, are valued at USD 500,000 (approximately PHP 25.38 million) and arrived late in the evening of 24 April 2020”, the DFA said in a statement. The testing kits were turned over by Korean Ambassador to […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has risen to 7294 after 102 new cases were reported. The Department of Health said of the 7294, 792 were recoveries. This includes the 30 new recoveries reported. Over 400, or 494 deaths were reported, including the 17 new deaths. President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the enhanced community quarantine in select areas, including Metro Manila, to May 15. Earlier, the DOH said that although […]
by Femke COLBORNE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The sun is only just rising in Berlin but Lothar Kopp, 65, is already standing in line outside a clinic in the district of Reinickendorf. Along with a handful of mask-clad people standing two metres apart, he is here to give a blood sample — for antibody tests in the hope of finding out if he has previously contracted the coronavirus and since developed immunity. […]
