Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:32:18 +0000
BY NICK GIONGCO Sen. Manny Pacquiao made the assurance to everyone at Dasmariñas Village of his family’s utmost cooperation in the observance of strict quarantine procedures amid concerns over the rapid spread of COVID-19. In a letter dated March 28 and addressed to Punong Barangay Rosanna Hwang of Dasmariñas Village in Makati, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:00:47 +0000
Perhaps the most fascinating new question in this year’s Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams reports concerned the electric vehicles people considered but didn’t buy. We asked EV owners which other electric vehicle models they thought about buying before deciding on the one they purchased or leased. I was surprised to see how much people actually cross-shopped across classes while considering which electric vehicle to buy
The number of international tourist arrivals will fall by 20 to 30% in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, putting millions of jobs at risk, the World Tourism Organization said Friday. This revises sharply lower a forecast made earlier this month of a decline of just 1.0 to 3.0%. The drop in arrivals will lead to an estimated loss of $300 billion to $450 billion in international tourism receipts, almost one third of the $1.5 trillion generated in 2019, the Madrid-based United Nations body said in a statement. “Tourism is among the hardest hit of all economic sectors,” the body’s secretary general, Zurab Pololikashvili, said in the statement, adding “it is clear” that millions…
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Egypt has expelled a correspondent for The Guardian over a report citing a study that challenged the official count of coronavirus cases in the Arab world’s most populous country, the British daily reported Thursday. The paper’s correspondent, Ruth Michaelson, left the country last week after Western diplomats informed her that Egyptian security services wanted her to leave “immediately,” the daily said. Michaelson had reported on unpublished research by Canadian infectious disease specialists estimating an outbreak size of over 19,000 cases in Egypt. The scientists had used data from early March when Egypt officially had only three confirmed cases, according to Michaelson’s re…
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:00:05 +0000
Hi Ms. Rica, Malapit na ako mainis sa asawa ko dahil sa quarantine na ‘to. Bigla kong naisip na hindi ko pala siya kaya makasama palagi. Pano ba ‘to? Suffocated Hi Suffocated, Sobrang napapanahon ‘yang tanong mo. Sa totoo lang, madami kayong nagtatanong sa akin ng tips kung paano ba hindi mainis […]
Read moreBobby Hebert Sr. — the father of former New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert — died Saturday at the age of 81 after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Read morePhysicists have developed a light funnel apparatus. It could serve as a new platform for hypersensitive optical detectors.
Read moreCOVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a new review.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:55:42 +0000
By ANALOU DE VERA The Department of Health yesterday said that more than 600 health workers have volunteered to join the government’s efforts against COVID-19. The DoH said that 690 health workers have signed up as volunteers. They are expected to help in manning the three COVID-19 referral centers in Metro Manila – Philippine General […]
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