Año orders arrest of people spreading fake news about coronavirus
Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año. (Alex Nueva España/ Senate PRIB) MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has ordered the country’s police force to investigate and arrest those responsible for spreading false information about the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV). Año said the situation on the 2019-nCoV is further exacerbated by […]
US says Chinese military stole masses of Americans’ data
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the Justice Department in Washington, as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Seth Ducharm looks on. Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of […]
Work from home option pushed amid coronavirus threat
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday appealed to the private sector to allow a “work from home” option for its employees amid the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) menace gripping the country. She issued the statement after reports that the 2019-nCoV has surpassed the global death toll of the 2003 SARS outbreak. ADVERTISEMENT The […]
Farmer slain in Camarines Sur town
NAGA CITY –– A 55-year-old farmer was killed in Calabanga town, Camarines Sur on Monday night, police said. A report from the Calabanga police said Ramon Balesa was sleeping inside his house when Ricardo Villanueva breached his firearm into the wall made of nipa and shot the victim in Barangay Paolbo at 10:45 p.m. ADVERTISEMENT […]
Pentagon: 109 troops suffer brain injuries from Iran strike
FILE – In this Jan. 13, 2020 file photo, Iranian bombing caused a crater at Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar, Iraq. Ain al-Asad airbase was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles, in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The Pentagon now says 50 service members […]
2 suspected carriers in Quezon test ‘negative’ for novel coronavirus
LUCENA CITY, Philippines – Two of the five “persons under investigation” (PUI) in Quezon province, have tested “negative” of the 2019-novel coronavirus (nCoV), a provincial health official said. “Of the five PUIs, two had been sent home (discharged from the hospital) since laboratory results arrived today (Feb. 10) and showed negative for 2019-nCoV,” Dr. Grace […]
China’s daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time; 1,016 total deaths
BEIJING – China’s daily death toll from new virus has topped 100 for first time, with more than 1,000 total deaths recorded, the health ministry announced Tuesday, as the spread of the contagion shows little sign of abating while exacting an ever-rising cost. Personnels wearing protective suits wait near an entrance at the Cheung Hong […]
UN warns of ‘major shock’ as Africa locust outbreak spreads
JOHANNESBURG — Uganda scrambled to respond to the arrival of the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations warned Monday that “we simply cannot afford another major shock” to an already vulnerable region. In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, desert locusts jump up from […]
Bishop Pabillo named Archdiocese of Manila apostolic administrator
MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Broderick Pabillo as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila after Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle left for Rome to assume his new post as prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. “He (Pabillo) will be mentioned in all Masses at the Eucharistic Prayer and […]
British traveler with the new virus may have exposed dozens
LONDON – A middle-aged businessman from England who vacationed in the Alps has illustrated how the ease of international travel is complicating global efforts to track and contain the new coronavirus that emerged in China. Masked passengers line up to board a flight for Beijing at the airport in Hong Kong on Sunday, Feb. 9, […]