[ad_1] Jilin has become the source of a potential new wave of infections, with six new cases reported yesterday, and the neighboring city of Shulan was forced to adjust the risk level to “high” from “medium” over the weekend. Gai Dongping said: “The current situation for COVID-19 is quite complex …
Read More »The ANC Brief: provisional franchise
[ad_1] ABS-CBN News Published in May 14, 2020 05:00 a.m. Initial steps have been taken in Congress to resolve the problems of the ABS-CBN network. Here are the stories that make ANC headlines today: ‘Back to the air in June’A House committee on Wednesday passed a bill granting a provisional …
Read More »Peru’s iconic Machu Picchu reopens – for free – The Manila Times
[ad_1] LIME: Peru’s greatest attraction, Machu Picchu, will allow visitors to come in after nearly two months of closure in a bid to kick-start Peru’s waning tourism industry, the government said. Machu Picchu is embedded at the meeting point between the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon Basin and is the …
Read More »Non-leisure mall shops, other workplaces can partially reopen under modified ECQ
[ad_1] LOCKDOWN. An empty P. Martinez Street on May 12, 2020, as Mandaluyong City implements a total lockdown in Barangays Mauway and Addition Hills. Photo by Rob Reyes / Rappler MANILA, Philippines – In a bid to partially reopen the economy, Malacañang on Wednesday, May 13, announced the list of …
Read More »Solon reprimands Sinas: You could have stopped the birthday party, but you chose not to
[ad_1] A morning was held on May 8 for Metro Manila Police Chief Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas (Photo from NCRPO Facebook page) MANILA, Philippines – The head of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), Major General Debold Sinas, may have ended the “surprise” birthday party organized by his subordinates …
Read More »Gullas wants the city of Talisay under ECQ after COVID-19 hits the densely populated area of the city
[ad_1] TALISAY CITY MAP | through Google Maps CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 37-year-old Barangay Tangke resident of Talisay City has become a concern for her city government after she tested positive for Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Mayor Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas said in his Facebook post that the patient lived …
Read More »WHO stresses need to find source of coronavirus
[ad_1] FILE: This undated electron microscope image made available by the US National Institutes of Health. USA In February 2020 it shows the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the virus causes COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP) Determining the source of the coronavirus pandemic should help determine how COVID-19 has “invaded the human species” …
Read More »“This virus may never go away,” says WHO.
[ad_1] GENEVA (Reuters) – The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would continue to circulate and calling for a “massive effort” to counter it. “It is important to put this on …
Read More »About 11 million families will receive the second tranche of monetary assistance COVID-19 – DSWD
[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 13) – About 11 million families are expected to be included in the second tranche of the government’s COVID-19 cash assistance program, the Department of Social Welfare said on Wednesday. Social Welfare Secretary Rolando Bautista told CNN Philippines that “roughly” 11.1 million families in …
Read More »Virus cases pass 5,000 in Afghanistan as war rages
[ad_1] KABUL – More than 5,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus across Afghanistan, health authorities said Wednesday, with the capital Kabul the epicenter of the deadly disease. The milestone comes as Afghanistan grapples with a surge in violence that is pulling vital attention and resources away from …
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