DOH-2 confirms 8 new COVID-19 positive, total cases now at 148
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, July 10 (PIA) - - The Department of Health (DOH) region 2 confirmed eight new cases of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) today, bringing the total number of positive ca.....»»
Infants under six months most affected by pertussis — DOH
Latest data from the DOH showed there were 28 new pertussis infections, bringing this year’s total cases to 568. Of the figure, around 63% were infants below six months. .....»»
DFA confirms Azurin held by Canadian immigration
Former Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. was intercepted by Canadian immigration personnel upon his arrival at Langley Airport in Canada, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Wednesday. During the budget deliberation on the DFA’s proposed P23 billion for the upcoming fiscal year in the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan inquired about reports of Azurin being held by Canadian immigration authorities. Responding to Libanan’s query, Nueva Ecija Representative Joseph Violago, who sponsored the DFA’s proposed budget before the plenary, positively affirmed the report. “There seems to be a misunderstanding, misinterpretation of what happened. The Canadian government expressed their regrets due to the miscommunication,” Violago said. He noted that Azurin, who resigned from his post in January, voluntarily went back home after being denied from entering Canada. In a separate statement, DFA spokesperson Teresita Daza said that the Philippine government is “in touch” with Canadian authorities regarding Azurin’s case. “The Department is in touch with Canadian authorities and hopes to get a better understanding of the incident soon,” Daza told reporters in a WhatsApp message to reporters. “While our foreign service posts are ready to assist Filipino travelers, including former government officials, these cases have privacy issues surrounding them,” she added. To recall, Azurin resigned from his post in January following Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos’ appeal to the high-ranking officials of the PNP to resign from their posts as part of the internal cleansing of the organization. Abalos sought the courtesy resignation of almost 1,000 police colonels and generals to address the alleged return of ninja cops in the PNP. The post DFA confirms Azurin held by Canadian immigration appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
AFP confirms massive coral harvesting along Rozul Reef in WPS
There were cases of massive coral harvesting along Rozul (Iroquois) Reef in the West Philippine Sea, the Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Command confirmed on Saturday. In a news forum on Saturday, AFP-WesCom chief Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos said the military sent out its divers “to do an underwater survey” after Chinese military militia vessels left the swarmed area. “And nakita namin wala na ‘yung mga corals. Nasira na ‘yung mga corals and may debris,” Carlos said. (We saw that there were no more corals. The corals were damaged and there was debris). We are coordinating with scientists, and experts to do their assessment of the area,” Carlos said. The AFP WesCom earlier reported the “concerning resurgence” of a total of 30 Chinese fishing ships in the WPS, based on its aerial patrols conducted from 6 to 7 September. Some 23 vessels were monitored in Rozul Reef, there were five ships in Escoda (Sabina) Shoal and two in Baragatan (Nares) Bank. The Philippine Navy likewise spotted 33 Chinese fishing vessels in Rozul Reef during a routine air patrol on 24 August. However, Carlos clarified that they are yet to determine whether the Chinese vessels are responsible for massive coral harvesting in the Rozul Reef. “Suspetsa pa lang natin, we are not saying they [Chinese vessels] are harvesting our corals. We suspect that somebody is harvesting our corals and that means they are violating our sovereign rights,” he added. Carlos, nonetheless, said the presence of Chinese fishing vessels in the territorial waters of the Philippines “is already alarming because we have the sovereign rights in our Exclusive Economic Zone.” “It looks like somebody is exercising that right without our permission,” he noted. The WesCom lamented that the increased presence of Chinese fishing vessels has potential implications in the “Philippines’ maritime security, fisheries conservation, territorial integrity, and preservation of the marine environment” as well as becoming a “source of tension in the WPS and have contributed to instability in the region.” In the same forum, AFP spokesperson Col. Medel Aguilar stressed the massive coal harvesting "will be affecting the production of fish” and will later on pose a “threat to the food security” in the country. Aguilar added that the military forces and other concerned government agencies should “have to be active”. “It is also our responsibility that the environment is protected,” he pressed on. The post AFP confirms massive coral harvesting along Rozul Reef in WPS appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Jerusalem tensions run high ahead of far-right Israeli rally
Jerusalem police and residents were bracing for extremist ministers and their supporters to rally on Thursday in an annual flag-waving march commemorating Israel's capture of the Old City. Palestinians in Jerusalem, who tend to close their shops and are banned from the social hub of Damascus Gate to make way for the marchers, view the parade as provocative. In the late morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jerusalem celebrations were being held "3,000 years after being established by King David, 75 after it was re-established as the capital of the reborn state of Israel, and 56 years after being reunited". Two of his extreme-right cabinet members, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, are expected to attend Thursday's rally, one of the events marking what Israelis refer to as Jerusalem Day. Following the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel annexed east Jerusalem and its Old City in a move never recognized by the international community. Thursday's rally takes place days into a ceasefire that ended deadly cross-border fighting with Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza. Thirty-three people including multiple civilians were killed in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and two in Israel, a citizen, and a Gazan laborer. Militant group Hamas which rules the coastal territory said ahead of the march it "condemns the campaign of the Zionist occupation (Israel) against our Palestinian people in occupied Jerusalem". Two years ago, after weeks of violence in Jerusalem in which scores of Palestinians were wounded, a war between Hamas and Israel erupted during the march. 'Acquiescence' to extremists Some 2,500 police officers were securing the march, which begins in the western part of the city at 4:00 p.m. (1300 GMT), proceeds through the Old City, and ends at the Western Wall plaza. On Thursday morning, an AFP journalist saw tourist groups walking through the historic gateway, while Palestinians sold bread from a stall and opened their shops before the afternoon shutdown. Later in the day, the vast majority of shops in the Old City were closed, with Palestinian resident, Abu al-Abed, 72, saying he wanted "to go home". The marchers "are harmful, they're walking and start to hit the doors of the shops and the doors of our houses," he told AFP. Scuffles between Jewish and Palestinian youths were taking place as early marchers arrived in the Old City, with police saying that in some cases forces "were required to act to prevent friction and provocations". Prior to the march, dozens of Jews -- including at least three lawmakers from Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and a minister from Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power faction -- visited Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site. Jews, who call it the Temple Mount and revere it as their religion's holiest site, are allowed to visit but not pray. One of them, Tom Nissani, was sitting at Jaffa Gate with an Israeli flag, awaiting the march. "It's our capital city, we have to show it, to enjoy it, to fight for it", the 34-year-old West Bank settler who works for an organization promoting Jewish presence on the Temple Mount told AFP. "Israel is not stable enough to be naive about the capital or the whole country, we still have to fight... many forces that are trying to prevent us from making roots in the land of Israel," he said. Transport Minister Miri Regev, from Netanyahu's Likud, was among Israelis waving flags at Damascus Gate hours before the official rally. A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned Israel "against insisting on organizing the provocative flag march". Pushing ahead with the parade "confirms the acquiescence of the Israeli government to Jewish extremists", spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Wednesday. Since last year's rally, Israel's leadership has taken a marked shift to the far-right. Ben-Gvir, the country's national security minister who is expected to attend, was convicted in 2007 of supporting a terrorist group and inciting racism. Far-right ally Smotrich holds the finance portfolio along with some powers in the occupied West Bank and also has a history of inflammatory remarks about Palestinians. The post Jerusalem tensions run high ahead of far-right Israeli rally appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
DOH confirms local transmission of new Omicron strains
Local transmission of the new COVID-19 Omicron subvariants XBB and XBC was confirmed yesterday by the Department of Health, citing how the cases have spread through several regions......»»
Iloilo City eyes state of calamity due to rising food, waterborne ailments
Iloilo City confirms three cholera cases and 90 acute gastroenteritis cases, with four fatalities.....»»
Indonesia confirms first monkeypox case – health ministry
Aside from Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines also have confirmed cases of monkeypox in Southeast Asia.....»»
Camiguin confirms ASF cases, bans entry of pork products
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The province of Camiguin has imposed a temporary ban on pork meat and by-products from outside the island after the Department of Agriculture-Northern Mindanao (DA-10) confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF).The announcement of Governor Xavier Jesus Romualdo releas.....»»
San Juan gov t confirms two Delta cases in city
"We only received information yesterday that they are indeed Delta variant cases, almost a week after they had completed their quarantine. Only the Philippine Genome Center has the capacity to conduct Genome Sequencing," San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said. .....»»
DOH confirms Delta local transmission
Following the detection of 23 local cases of the Delta variant in recent weeks, the Department of Health has declared that there is now local transmission of this highly transmissible COVID-19 variant......»»
Philippines confirms local transmission of Delta variant
In a statement issued late Thursday, the DOH said that based on the phylogenetic analysis by genomic experts and the investigation by the department, “clusters of Delta variant cases were seen to be linked to other local cases, therefore, exhibiting local transmission.”.....»»
Zamboanga City confirms S. Africa variant cases
Zamboanga City confirms S. Africa variant cases.....»»
Brazil confirms first cases of Indian Covid variant
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL — Brazil has detected its first six cases of the so-called Indian variant of the Covid-19 virus, in crew members who arrived aboard a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship, officials said Thursday. Tests “identified the B.1.617.2 variant of the Covid-19 virus in samples taken from crew of the MV Shandong Da Zhi,” […] The post Brazil confirms first cases of Indian Covid variant appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Philippines confirms first cases of COVID-19 variant found in South Africa
MANILA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines has detected its first six cases of a more contagious COVID-19 variant found in South Africa, its health ministry said on Tuesday. Health Undersec.....»»
DOH confirms 19 more cases of UK variant
Nineteen more cases of B117 or the United Kingdom variant of COVID-19 – one of them a 10-year-old boy in the Davao region – have been detected in the country, the Department of Health said yesterday......»»
Laos confirms no new death from dengue fever for 37 days
VIENTIANE, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Dengue cases in Laos have continued to rise, but no new death from the disease have been reported for 37 days. Deputy director general of the Department of Com.....»»
Live COVID-19 updates: New Zealand confirms six new cases of COVID-19
BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - WELLINGTON -- New Zealand confirmed six new cases of COVID-19 on.....»»
New Zealand confirms six new cases of COVID-19
WELLINGTON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand confirmed six new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, including two imported cases detected in managed isolation facilities and four community cases. On.....»»
Live COVID-19 updates: Tokyo confirms over 200 new COVID-19 cases
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - TOKYO -- The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed 207 new dail.....»»
Gov& rsquo;t confirms local presence of more infectious virus strain
Medical experts confirmed Tuesday the presence of an even more infectious variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, after it was seen in a small sample of positive cases in Quezon City......»»