Tag: COVID19

DFA repatriates over 3,000 Filipinos last week

(Eagle News) –Over 3,000 overseas Filipinos were repatriated last week amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the additional repatriates brought the total number of Filipinos repatriated since the start of repatriation efforts in February 2020 to 372,730. Of these, DFA data said 101,558 were sea-based, while 271,172 were land-based. It said the 3,994 repatriated last week included a distressed fisherman from Indonesia, medical repatriates from Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, Italy, Turkey, Bahrain […]

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PNP ready to transport COVID-19 vaccines upon arrival

  (Eagle News) –Philippine National Police Chief Debold Sinas said the PNP is ready to transport the COVID-19 vaccines upon arrival in the Philippines. “All systems are in place to ensure the unhampered transport of the first shipment of COVD 19 vaccines that will arrive in the country,” he said. He noted the PNP Vaccination Plan Caduceus, in particular, which he said “will operationalize all security and public safety operations for the vaccine roll-out in […]

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PHL COVID-19 cases reach 571,327 with addition of 2,651 cases

(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines breached the 571,000 mark on Friday, Feb. 26, after the Department of Health reported 2,651 additional cases. The DOH said of the total 571,327 total cases, 34498 were active. Of these, 88.4 percent were mild, 6.4 percent were asymptomatic, 2.3 percent critical, 2.1 percent severe, and 0.74 percent were moderate. COVID-19 recoveries reached 524582 including the 561 additional ones. Forty-six additional deaths pushed the death toll to […]

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PNP reports 23 more COVID-19 recoveries

(Eagle News) — Twenty-three more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said the additional recoveries pushed the PNP COVID-19 recovery total to 10685. Thirty-six additional cases, however, pushed the PNP total cases to 11176. Of these, 460 were active. No additional deaths were reported; the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 31. Uniformed personnel, including policemen, are among the priorities in a COVID-19 vaccination program that is slated to start this […]

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PNP opens second molecular lab for COVID-19 testing in Davao City

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has opened another molecular laboratory for COVID-19 testing in Davao City. The PNP said the lab, which will cater to Police Regional Offices in Western Mindanao, Southern Mindnao, SOCCSKSARGEN, Caraga, and Bangsangmoro Autonomous Region police personnel, non-uniformed personnel and their dependents, is the second in the city. It has a daily testing capacity of 170. Both molecular labs in Davao have a combined daily testing capacity of 320. […]

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COVID-19 cases in PHL reach 563,456 with addition of 2,288 cases

(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country reached 563,456 after the Department of Health reported 2288 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 28488 were active. Of these, 88.1 percent were active, 5.7 percent asymptomatic, 2.7 percent critical, 2.6 percent severe, and 0.85 percent moderate. Recoveries rose to 522,874 including the 33 additional ones. Six additional deaths pushed the COVID-19 death toll to 12,094. On Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte thumbed down the […]

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DILG to PNP: Provide security to COVID-19 vaccines, inoculation teams

(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government has ordered the Philippine National Police to escort COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination teams to ensure they reach their destinations. DILG officer-in-charge Bernard Florece Jr. gave the order as Interior Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya slammed the Communist rebels for setting conditions for the transport of the vaccines. Earlier, the Communist Party of the Philippines said it would allow the safe transport of the same but urged […]

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Roque in isolation after staff member tests positive for COVID-19

(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is in isolation after a member of his staff tested positive for COVID-19. Roque said the isolation was needed as part of protocol even if he already tested negative for COVID-19 in his RT-PCR test on Sunday. The test was done in time for the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases meeting today. The meeting is expected to be presided over by President Rodrigo […]

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Mother, girlfriend of Filipino with UK COVID-19 variant test positive for COVID-19

Close contacts of index patient who tested positive for COVID-19 now at 11 (Eagle News) — The mother and the girlfriend of the 29-year-old male who tested positive for the United Kingdom COVID-19 variant have tested positive for COVID-19, the Department of Health said on Wednesday, January 20. Health Undersecretary Rosario Vergeire said apart from the two, another close contact of the male tested positive for COVID-19 in a recent re-swabbing, but she said this […]

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Arevalo says no high-ranking AFP official vaccinated vs COVID-19

(Eagle News)– No other member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has been vaccinated against COVID-19. AFP spokesperson Major General Edgard Arevalo said in a television interview on Tuesday that “not even the Chief of Staff (General Gilbert Gapay), not even me, or not even high ranking officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.” According to Arevalo, only select members of the Presidential Security Group have been given the vaccine. “As the unit […]

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Branch 19 of Malolos, Bulacan RTC physically closed until December 22

(Eagle News) — Branch 19 of the Malolos, Bulacan Regional Trial Court is physically closed until December 22. A memo from Executive Judge Olivia Escubio-Samar said this was after a report a member of the branch staff tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 8. The staff last reported for work on Dec. 4. According to the memo, the branch presiding judge and other members of his staff should stay home and undergo swab testing. Transactions […]

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President Duterte to APEC: Ensure unimpeded flow of COVID-19 vaccines, technologies

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Nov. 20, called on Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member-states to ensure the unimpeded flow of COVID-19 vaccines and technologies once  available. In his speech at the virtual APEC Leaders Meeting, the  President said several modalities could be employed for this: through bilateral and multilateral cooperation and through tripartite arrangements among the government, private sector and  multilateral financial institutions. “We have to defeat the virus everywhere, or no one is […]

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