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(Eagle News) – The total number of persons under investigation (PUIs) for the novel coronavirus-2019 has jumped to 382 in the Philippines, with the number of confirmed cases still at three, according to the Department of Health’s latest data. As of its latest update on Tuesday, Feb. 11, there were 68 new cases added to the previous day’s accumulative total of 314. (https://ncovtracker.doh.gov.ph/) There are also 266 admitted PUIs, with five added from Monday’s […]
(Eagle News) – From Luzon to Mindanao, there are now 261 patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus infection who are being observed by the Department of Health (DOH) currently admitted in various hospitals. The total number of PUIs in the country has also reached 314, including 50 discharged cases who had tested negative for the virus, according to the DOH statistics as of Feb. 10, 2020. So far, the Philippines has three confirmed cases […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Tuesday, Feb. 11, ordered the Philippine National Police to arrest those behind the dissemination of fake news on the novel coronavirus. Año issued the order after an infographic allegedly coming from the Department of the Interior and Local Government showed the government had banned travelers from 23 countries affected by the 2019-nCoV. The Philippine government has so far only banned travel to and from mainland China, Hong […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine Airlines has cancelled its flights to and from Taiwan. In a statement, PAL said the cancellation of flights PR890/891 Manila-Taipei-Manila and PR894/895 Manila-Taipei-Manila was in compliance with the Philippine government order expanding the travel ban as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Apart from Taiwan, the ban includes mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. According to PAL, for tickets bought through travel agencies, travelers may contact their travel agent for rebooking rerouting or […]
by Catherine Lai Agence France Presse SINGAPORE (AFP) — Scientists from the United States to Australia are using new technology in an ambitious, multi-million-dollar drive to develop a vaccine in record time to tackle China’s coronavirus outbreak. The new virus has spread rapidly since emerging late last year in China, killing more than 800 people in the mainland and infecting over 37,000. Cases have been reported in two dozen other countries. Coming up with […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty (30) Filipinos from Wuhan City, the ground zero of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease (2019-nCoV ARD), have been flown to the country, arriving at the Clark Air Base on Sunday, Feb. 9, through the efforts of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The repatriated Filipinos included 29 adults and one infant. They were onboard the chartered flight which landed at the Haribon Hangar in Clark Air Base. The […]
(Eagle News)–The Filipino domestic worker who was quarantined in Hong Kong after her employer tested positive for the novel coronavirus has been given a clean bill of health by Hong Kong authorities, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, the OFW, who was the first Filipino domestic worker quarantined in the special administrative region, has been discharged by the Hong Kong Department of Health. She had been placed under a 14-day quarantine […]
(Eagle News)–The bodies of the country’s first novel coronavirus fatality and that of a person being probed for symptoms of the virus have been buried, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Saturday, Feb. 8. Duque made the disclosure in an interview over radio dzbb a day after Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo refused to divulge what had been done to the body of the 44-year-old Chinese male, also the first 2019-nCoV fatality outside China and […]
Non-airport-related activities also suspended in four NAIA terminals (Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority on Friday, Feb. 7, said it was limiting the issuance of visitors passes for terminals for the purpose of sending off and meeting passengers, and suspending non-airport related activities in the four terminals. In an advisory, MIAA said this was to discourage the public from going to crowded places in compliance with world health experts’ advice and in support of government […]
by Laurent THOMET Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese doctor who was punished after raising the alarm about China’s new coronavirus died from the pathogen on Friday, sparking an outpouring of grief and anger over a worsening crisis that has now killed more than 630 people. At least 31,000 people have now been infected by a virus that ophthalmologist Li Wenliang and colleagues first brought to light in late December. The […]
Contacts of PHL’s three confirmed novel coronavirus cases identified (Eagle News) — The number of people probed for the novel coronavirus has reached over 200, but 57 of them tested negative for the virus, the Department of Health said on Friday, Feb. 7. According to Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo, the DOH is awaiting the results of the tests on 155 PUIs. Domingo said the DOH also identified the 441 people who came in contact with […]
(Eagle News) – The New Clark City in Tarlac will be the new quarantine area for all repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), according to the Department of Health in a press briefing on Thursday, Feb. 6. Health Secretary Francisco Duque bared this as he detailed what will happen from the time of the boarding of the chartered plane by OFWs from China to the time that they arrive here at the Clark International Airport. […]
