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DoH: Repatriated OFWs be quarantined at Fort Magsaysay 

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:19:52 +0000

OVERSEAS Filipinos to be repatriated from Hubei, China will be quarantined at Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Wednesday. “They will be on quarantine. Because they are coming from the hot zone,” said Health Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Myrna Cabotaje in a hearing by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Metro Manila Development. The […]

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Trace on for over 300 people in contact with 2 nCoV victims

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Credit to Author: Darwin Pesco| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:20:54 +0000

THE Philippine National Police (PNP), through its Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), will start tracing over 300 passengers of the flights who may have come into contact with two Chinese who tested positive for the novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV-ARD). READ: ‘Find the passengers’ CIDG Director Joel Napoleon Coronel, in a press briefing on Wednesday, said […]

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NBI ordered to probe, ‘charge persons responsible’ for fake news on nCoV

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Credit to Author: William B. Depasupil| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:41:00 +0000

JUSTICE Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday directed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to arrest individuals disseminating false information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus (n-CoV). In Department Order (DO) 052, Guevarra also instructed NBI Director Dante Gierran to coordinate with the Department of Health (DoH) and provide technical assistance, if necessary, in contract tracing individuals […]

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Lorenzana proposes postponement of PMA alumni homecoming amid nCoV scare

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:25:16 +0000

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Tuesday proposed the postponement of the annual alumni homecoming of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in view of the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) outbreak. In a statement issued late Monday night, Lorenzana also backed the decision of Vice Admiral Allan Ferdinand Cusi, PMA superintendent, to temporarily close […]

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Filipino worker in Libya cleared of nCoV

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:25:16 +0000

LIBYAN authorities on Tuesday cleared a returning Filipino worker who was suspected of having been infected with the deadly 2019 novel coronavirus-acute respiratory disease (nCoV-ARD). Philippine Embassy Charges d’Affaires Elmer Cato deplored the posting by a local online publication of the photograph of the Filipino worker. In a post on the Embassy’s Facebook page, Cato […]

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Quezon City hospital staff deny nCoV case, lockdown

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:54:45 +0000

PERSONNEL from the East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City belied claims on social media that a patient was admitted for the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) and that hospital declared a lockdown because of it. “Madami pong natawag tungkol diyan, ‘di naman po totoo sir (We have received calls asking about […]

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25,000 PH workers may lose jobs over n-CoV travel ban to HK, Macau

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:59:23 +0000

AN estimated 25,000 Filipino household service workers (HSWs) or domestic helpers may lose their jobs over the travel ban imposed by the Philippines on Hong Kong and Macau as part of its precautionary measure to contain the spread of the 2019 novel Corona Virus (n-CoV). The figure consists of 10, 000 returning and 15,000 newly […]

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Duterte assures public of transparency amid nCoV scare in PH

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Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:11:32 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has assured the public that the government “will never hide anything” about the true state of the 2019-novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) in the country, as he allayed fears over the outbreak that has killed over 300 people and infected thousands of others. In a press conference after an “emergency […]

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DoH confirms first NCoV-ARD death

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Credit to Author: John Eric Mendoza| Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 03:10:47 +0000

HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd confirmed on Sunday that a Chinese man died of the Novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease (2019 NCoV-ARD) on Saturday, the country’s first fatality. “This is the first reported death outside China, but bear in mind that this is not a locally acquired case, but in the epicenter of the disease […]

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Join hands in fighting against the 2019-nCoV epidemic

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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:33:17 +0000

The 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) epidemic has become a common concern of the international community. Since the first infection was diagnosed in Wuhan in December 2019, the novel coronavirus has been spreading at a speed even beyond the expectation of medical experts. In response, the Chinese government mandated a quarantine of the Wuhan city on […]

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