Tag: nCoV-2019

Duterte to public: Stop xenophobia vs the Chinese

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Feb. 3, urged the public to “stop the xenophobia” against the Chinese, amid the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak. “This kind of mentioning the Chinese and blaming them, it’s like xenophobia,” Duterte said. The President said “we are a community of nations.” “We cooperate. China has been kind to us, we also show the same favor to them,” he said. The Philippines confirmed the country’s second novel coronavirus […]

DOH to recommend expansion of travel ban coverage to other Chinese provinces amid threat of novel coronavirus

(Eagle News) — The Department of Health will recommend the expansion of the temporary ban for travelers from Hubei, China to the Philippines to travelers from other Chinese provinces. Health spokesperson Eric Domingo, who read from a statement on Friday, Jan. 31, did not specifically say what these other provinces were but said the recommendation was as “new information on the increasing number of cases per region rises.” So far, Domingo said the number of […]

President Duterte to impose temporary travel ban on travelers from Hubei, China — Go

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will implement a temporary travel ban on travelers coming from  Hubei, China, where Wuhan, the seat of the novel coronavirus outbreak, is located, Senator Bong Go said. According to Go, this was after he talked to the President and made the recommendation following the country’s confirmation of the first 2019-nCoV in the country. “Nais ko  pong ipaalam sa publiko na nakausap ko po si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kanina at inirekomenda ko […]