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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte thanked Russia and China for offering to the Philippines the vaccines they are developing against COVID-19. Duterte said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have both offered to help the country address its COVID-19 problems by offering the vaccines which their scientists are developing to fight the virus. “As I have stated time and again repeatedly that the only salvation available to humankind at this […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A shallow 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, although there was no tsunami warning issued. The quake struck 68 kilometers (42 miles) southeast of the city of Masbate in the central Visayas region at 8:03 am (0003 GMT). © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte placed under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) Metro Manila and the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, and Bulacan, from the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) protocol which ends Tuesday, Aug. 18. President Duterte made the announcement on Monday night, Aug. 17, a day before the end of the MECQ protocols in the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces. These areas join other provinces and cities previously placed under GCQ, namely Nueva […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines’ total COVID-19 cases continued to spike, reaching 136,638 cases, with the addition of a new record-high of almost 7,000 new cases on Monday, Aug. 10. With this number, the country continued to lead in number of cases in Southeast Asia, widening its margin with Indonesia which has the second highest number of cases at 127.083. The Philippines has 9,555 cases more than Indonesia. New cases added on Monday were […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that it would study suggestions to make the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) effective for one month in Metro Manila and other areas with high COVID-19 cases. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that this is up to the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to decide. He noted how the effects of the MECQ in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal would be […]
Over 1.7 million COVID-19 tests done in PHL so far (Eagle News) – With more than 30,000 tests done daily, the Philippines is now the country in Southeast Asia with the most number of COVID-19 tests done per day compared to its Southeast Asian neighbors, according to the country’s COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon. Dizon, who is also president of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) cited recent figures from Our World in Data, […]
PHL COVID-19 cases even surpass numbers from previous COVID epicenter China (Eagle News) – The country’s total COVID-19 cases rose to 122,754 on Friday, Aug. 7, as an additional 3,379 confirmed cases were added from the report of 89 certified laboratories. With this number, the Philippines officially becomes the country in Southeast Asia with the most COVID-19 cases, overtaking previous frontrunner Indonesia which only has 118,753 cases. Singapore is the third ASEAN country with […]
(Eagle News) – The number of active COVID-19 cases in the country surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, Aug. 6, as the total number of cases breached 119,000. The Department of Health’s latest update showed that active virus cases reached 50,473 but 90.9 percent of these are only mild, while 7.8 percent are considered asymptomatic. Total COVID-19 cases reached 119,460 with the addition of 3,561, which was roughly the same as Wednesday’s (Aug. 5) 3.462 cases. […]
PHL- 24th country with most COVID-19 cases in the world, based on Johns Hopkins University data (Eagle News) – The Philippines became a close second to Indonesia in terms of having the most COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia as the total confirmed virus infections in the country reached 115,980 on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The country came very close to Indonesia’s record of 116,865 as of late Wednesday afternoon, at 5:34 pm (PST) based […]
(Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country breached the 115,000 mark on Wednesday, Aug. 5, after the Department of Health reported 3462 cases on the same day. Of the 115,980, the DOH said 47587 were active cases, of which 91.4 percent were mild, 7.3 percent were asymptomatic, 0.8 percent were severe, and 0.5 percent were critical. The 3462 newly-announced cases were from tests done by 84 out of 98 […]
(Eagle News)– The country’s COVID-19 cases could have reached 220,000 by the end of August if Metro Manila and surrounding areas remained under General Community Quarantine (GCQ), according to a University of the Philippines prediction. But with the return to the stricter Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) protocols, UP experts said that there would be about 170,000 total cases by end of the month, saving as many as 50,000 cases. “Iyong bagong forecast po natin […]
(Eagle News) — The COVID-19 tests in the country have reached 35,000 per day which is double the daily tests being done in Japan and South Korea, according to COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon. Dizon said that the Philippines has in fact one of the highest number of COVID-19 tests done daily in Asia, as he stressed how COVID-19 tests in the country had increased in the past few weeks. But he said that […]
