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UK PM In Hospital As Queen Says United Effort Will Defeat Virus

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday after failing to shake off coronavirus symptoms, as Queen Elizabeth II said a united effort would defeat the outbreak.

Faith In This Holy Week

The Christian world is now in the middle of Holy Week. It should have begun, as in the past, with festive palm-waving crowds in churches all over the country, in commemoration of the welcome the people of Jerusalem gave Jesus on that first Palm Sunday.

Support For Lockdown Extension Snowballs

Concepcion says business groups want 2 more weeks of quarantine; Robredo, Go, Lopez also back move

Pacquiao Making Up For Lost Time With Kids

Says retirement farthest from his mind

12-Man Chinese Medical Team Here To Help Control Covid-19

Foreign Affairs Secretary Te-odoro Locsin Jr. and Chinese Ambassador to Manila Huang Xilian yesterday welcomed the 12-man Chinese medical experts who arrived in the country to provide the Philippines with technical advice on the coronavirus disease’s control and prevention.

Baguio City Ready For Post-ECQ Scenarios

BAGUIO CITY — With 10 days left before the lapse of the Eenhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the country, Baguio City is poised to shift its focus on planning for gradual transition to prepare its different sectors for a post-ECQ scenario amid the continuing threats posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Jersey Manufacturers Shift To Making PPEs For Hospitals, Health Workers

Manufacturing companies known for providing teams in the pro and amateur leagues with uniforms have shifted their attention to helping health workers fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Baby Covid-19' Discharged From Hospital In Or. Mindoro

Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro — The baby patient, the first confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the province and the youngest in the country, will be put under a 14-day home quarantine after she was discharged from the hospital last Friday as part of a health protocol for COVID patients.

Priests Hold Drive-by Blessings Of Fronds On Palm Sunday

Catholic priests delivered blessings from the back of trucks and motorized tricycles on Palm Sunday yesterday, adapting the deeply Catholic nation's traditions to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

Still So Much Not Known About Covid-19

To this day, there is still so much that is not known about the coronavirus, COVID-19, which explains why it is still spreading wildly in many countries, including the United States.

Private Aid Boosts Gov't Funds For Virus Victims

Private aid boosts gov’t funds for virus victims

15-Day Lockdown Extension Mulled

IATF: No conclusive data yet to justify lifting or extending quarantine

Finding A Bit Of Faith Through Five ‘Flix'

Maybe it’s no coincidence that the enhanced community quarantine in the Philippines happens during Lent. It could be God is calling, and even louder today on Palm Sunday– maybe even while you’re in the middle of a movie marathon.

Miscalculated Move

With work at a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Female Celebrity (FC) thought of a way to ensure that she keeps her role in the life of Influential Actor (IA).

PNP Assures It Understands The President's Order

We welcome the reassuring words of Gen. Archie Gamboa, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), who said Thursday that the PNP will not be out to shoot dead those who gather to protest the alleged lack of food in this time of quarantine, such as in the demonstration held by the Kadamay in Barangay Bagong Pagasa in Quezon City last Tuesday.

Pregnancy And Covid-19

Every worried and expectant mom’s questions answered

Massive Testing For Covid-19 Starts April 14

COVID-19 Update in PH3018 Confirmed Cases, 136 Deaths, 52 Recovered.

Staying Put

League governors await gov’t signal when to resume

Two Cops Succumb To Covid-19, Marks First Virus-Related Deaths In PNP

Two cops succumb to COVID-19

After 2 Weeks Of The Quarantine

At the end of March, after two weeks of the Luzon-wide quarantine and state of calamity declared in the rest of the country, the Philippines, with a population of 107 million, had a total of 2,084 cases, with 88 deaths and 49 recoveries.

BOC Releases Guidelines On Exemption Of Taxes, Duties For PPEs, Medical Supplies

Guidelines on the implementation of exemption of taxes and duties for imported personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical emergency supplies have been released by the Bureau of Customs.

110 To 120 Beds At Ninoy Aquino Venue

The recently-refurbished Ninoy Aquino Stadium (NAS) can be reconfigured to accommodate 110-120 beds for the purpose of housing patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19, the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) said on Thursday.

AFP Receives COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits, PPEs

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) received a donation of 23,000 coronavirus disease (COVID19) rapid test kits and personal protective equipment (PPEs) from businessman Kim Wong.

Quarantine Will Have To Do Until We Can Do Mass Testing

Quarantine will have to do until we can do mass testing

Business Bats For Selective Quarantine

Our goal is to reduce the total number of lives lost – Concepcion

Port congestion, not supply, hounds rice importation - Dar

Agriculture Secretary William Dar is confident that Vietnam, the Philip-pines’ top source for imported rice, will not bail on its export commitments to the country during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but he raised concerns over port congestion, which he said is already becoming a bigger threat to the supply of the country’s main staple.

Filipino nurses in US frontlines vs COVID-19

“The next coronavirus crisis will be a shortage of doctors and nurses” – so ran a report last Thursday in the United States where the COVID-29 pandemic continued to spread such that it is expected to surpass all other countries in the number of cases.

Coronavirus worst crisis since WWII, UN chief says; Italian doctors warn of ‘biological bombs'

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to worsen Wednesday despite unprecedented lockdowns, as the head of the United Nations sounded the alarm on what he said was humanity's worst crisis since World War II.

China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 virus cases

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s decision to lock down the city of Wuhan, ground zero for the global COVID-19 pandemic, may have prevented more than 700,000 new cases by delaying the spread of the virus, researchers said Tuesday.

CAN I EAT THE VIRUS?

Precautions to take when ordering food from delivery services