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Duterte assures public of transparency amid nCoV scare in PH

February 4, 2020 admin 2019 novel coronavirus, duterte, ncov, second headlines, transparency

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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PH widens travel ban

February 2, 2020 admin second headlines

Credit to Author: Bernadette Tamayo| Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 04:59:06 +0000

SEN. Christopher “Bong” Go on Sunday said President Rodrigo Duterte has agreed to widen the travel ban against Chinese visitors to include all travelers coming from anywhere in China. He however stressed that the Philippine government is not singling out Chinese in its travel ban amid the threat of the deadly 2019 coronavirus. The senator […]

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Palace appeals to public: Avoid discrimination amid nCoV scare

February 1, 2020 admin Discrimination, ncov scare, Palace, second headlines

Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 05:50:37 +0000

MALACAÑANG on Saturday asked Filipinos to remain calm and not to discriminate out of fear over the existence of the deadly 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that originated from Wuhan, China. Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar made the statement after the coronavirus outbreak has stoked a wave of anti-China sentiment around the globe, particularly in the […]

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2 military camps eyed as quarantine areas for suspected nCoV ‘carriers’

January 31, 2020 admin caballo island, coronavirus, fort magsaysay, ncov, second headlines

Credit to Author: Dempsey Reyes| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:24:28 +0000

THE government is eyeing the drug rehabilitation facility of Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija and Caballo Island as quarantine areas for Filipinos who will be coming home from Wuhan and other areas in China affected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday. “They are looking at both areas. No decision […]

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Filipina teen, Indonesian partner bag Australian Open junior girls’ doubles title

January 31, 2020 admin alex eala, Australian Open, second headlines

Credit to Author: Jeremiah M. Sevilla| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:10:34 +0000

Alex Eala is the first Filipino woman to grab a Grand Slam title. The teen tennis star Eala and her Indonesian partner Priska Nugroho crushed Matilda Mutavdzic of Great Britain and Ziva Falkner of Slovenia, 6-1, 6-2, to rule the 2020 Australian Open junior girls’ doubles tournament on Friday at the Melbourne Park. Eala, 14, […]

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Palace: PH won’t lose convicted US soldier in transgender slay sans VFA

January 30, 2020 admin Jennifer Laude, Joseph Scott Pemberton, second headlines, transgender woman, vfa

Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:59:11 +0000

MALACAÑANG is confident that the Philippines will retain its jurisdiction over the case of an American soldier convicted of killing Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude even after the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States (US) is formally terminated. Speaking to reporters, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said that the termination of the agreement would […]

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Chinese probed for nCoV infection dies

January 29, 2020 admin 2019-ncov, ncov, novel coronavirus, second headlines

Credit to Author: Franz Lewin Embudo| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:48:05 +0000

THE Department of Health (DoH) disclosed that a Chinese being investigated on suspicion of having contracted the 2019 novel Coronavirus (nCoV) died on Wednesday morning but pneumonia was listed as the cause of his death at the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila. “This morning we have a person under investigation, hindi pa confirmed for NCoV, […]

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PH to evacuate Filipinos in Wuhan

January 28, 2020 admin second headlines

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:17:48 +0000

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is ready to repatriate Filipinos in Wuhan City in China who wish to return to the Philippines amid the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus (nCoV). There are about 300 Filipinos in Hubei Province, 150 of whom work and live in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus. The DFA […]

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China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate

January 28, 2020 admin second headlines

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:44:59 +0000

BEIJING: Deaths from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 in China on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak. The total includes the first death in Beijing, the […]

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No sulfur dioxide emission from Taal over past 24 hours — Phivolcs

January 28, 2020 admin second headlines

Credit to Author: Franz Lewin Embudo| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:47:23 +0000

THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Tuesday that there was no more trace of sulfur dioxide from Taal Volcano in the past 24 hours. “Sulfur dioxide emission was below instrumental detection,” said Phivolcs in its 8 a.m. bulletin. Sulfur dioxide emission is used as a parameter to measure the magma movement […]