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by Thomas URBAIN Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — American families slammed by the coronavirus pandemic are turning more and more to food banks to get by, waiting hours for donations in lines of cars stretching as far as the eye can see. And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared people fear the […]
(Eagle News) — More patients are recovering from the coronavirus disease with the addition of 56 new recoveries as of Sunday, April 19, bringing the total to 572 as total confirmed cases rose to 6,259 because of widened mass testing, according to the Department of Health (DOH). The DOH reports 172 new confirmed cases as of 4 p.m., while only 12 new deaths were recorded bringing the total number of COVID-19 related fatalities to […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) announced that its testing center in its national headquarters is now operational, and that it has two testing machines that can each conduct 1,500 COVID-19 tests per day. In a statement, the PRC said that its molecular laboratory along EDSA has already started operations on Wednesday, April 15, and this is their way of taking a step forward in its campaign to help prevent the spread […]
(Eagle News) – Families of barangay tanods and barangay health workers are qualified to receive financial aid under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced. In a statement, the DILG said that Secretary Rolando Bautista of the Department of Social Welfare and Development has already issued a memorandum approving the DILG’s recommendation to include barangay frontliners in the SAP. “Karamihan po sa ating mga tanod at health workers […]
(Eagle News) – A 132-bed COVID-19 facility at the Philippine Sports Arena or ULTRA in Pasig City has been completed within three days, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). In a statement, DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said that the health facility at UTRA, which has been repurposed into an isolation and treatment facility by setting up cubicles as makeshift hospital rooms, was “[b]uilt in super quick time from April 15 to […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in Quezon City has reached 1042. The local government said this was based on Department of Health data. Of the 1042, the local government said 697 have been confirmed by the City Epidemology and Disease Surveillance Unit. Deaths continue to surpass recoveries, 90 vis à vis 87. Among the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, 180 are suspected COVID-19 cases. Barangay Batasan Hills has so far recorded the […]
(Eagle News)–A 72-year-old detainee at the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong City has tested positive for the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019. The Bureau of Corrections said in a Facebook post the detainee, whom it did not identify, was now being treated in Sta. Ana hospital. BuCor said based on information from Superintendent Virginia Mangawit of the facility, the patient has a history of diabetes and had been diagnosed at the CIW […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) US President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that China could face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic. “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t,” Trump told reporters at a White House briefing. “And now the whole world is suffering because of it.” Trump was asked whether China should suffer consequences over the pandemic which began in the Chinese city of […]
by Xavier LETAMENDI Agence France Presse GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AFP) — Darwin Castillo’s father died in Guayaquil during the coronavirus pandemic that has caused the Ecuadoran city’s health system to collapse. But when Castillo went to the overwhelmed morgue to recover him, he opened a body bag to find the person inside wasn’t his father. Two weeks have passed and he still hasn’t found the body. Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, is the capital of Guayas […]
by Paul HANDLEY / with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse Coronavirus deaths have surged past 150,000 worldwide with nearly a quarter of them in the United States, where President Donald Trump lent his support to protesters rallying against lockdown orders. Evidence is mounting that social distancing successfully slowed the pandemic after more than half of humanity — 4.5 billion people — were confined to their homes. Governments around the world are now grappling with […]
(Eagle News) – The government warned the public to be cautious in their online transactions as it reported a 100% increase in the number of phishing incidents during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period. In an online press briefing on Saturday, April 18, Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that while online services has helped people cope during the ECQ, “the National Bureau of Investigation-Cybercrime Division […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Tourism (DOT) has launched an online training program to allow tourism stakeholders to embrace the “new normal” and cope with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, DOT secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that the program, dubbed DOT Online Training, will be done via Zoom video-conferencing and “offers stakeholders an option to use their time productively during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ)”. “The DOT is […]
