Tag: Malcanang

PHL gov’t targets setting up 78 COVID-19 labs, to do 30k tests per day by end of May

  (Eagle News) – The Philippines hopes to conduct 30,000 COVID-19 tests a day by the end of May as government officials pushed for a “test,test,test (T3) approach to beat the virus. Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) president Vince Dizon, the deputy chief implementer of the National Action Policy (NAP) against COVID-19, said that they also hope to set up a total of 78 laboratories by May 30. Presently, there are 20 laboratories which had […]

Updated: Pres. Duterte declares state of public health emergency as COVID-19 cases rise to 10

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has already signed the proclamation declaring the state of public health emergency in the country after the Department of Health confirmed four new coronavirus cases, raising the confirmed infections to 10. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, on Monday, March 9, 2020, read Proclamation No. 922 declaring a “state of public health emergency throughout the Philippines”. In a Malacanang press briefing, Panelo said that the order was signed by the […]

President Duterte vows to crush Islamist militants; says he is hurt because some cousins joined Maute group

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to crush the Islamist militants in Marawi who have allowed themselves to be contaminated with an ideology that is radical, brutal and very foreign from the Philippines, and Asia — the Malay people — in general. “Alam mo sa totoo lang, if it was just an uprising, just the mainstream rebellion of the MI(LF) and the MNLF, I can endure a war with you. And I can even […]