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World Trade Center Metro Manila turns its massive floor space into a COVID-19 facility

Updated as of Apr 06 06:50 PM

The popular events place is repurposing its now empty halls to tend to mild Coronavirus cases. BY BAM ABELLON Read more »

Davao region bans liquor, sets curfew to beat COVID-19

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Updated as of Apr 06 05:17 PM

Davao Region on Sunday banned alcoholic drinks and set a 12-hour curfew to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »

COVID-19 bayanihan: OFWs namigay ng karne sa mga ka-barangay sa Quezon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 06 01:19 PM

Sa tulong ng kanilang mga kamag-anak at mga lokal na opisyal sa Tayabas, Quezon, namahagi ng karneng baboy ang ilang OFWs sa kanilang mga ka-barangay habang naka-lockdown ang buong Luzon dahil sa COVID-19.  Read more »

Koko Pimentel faces complaint over coronavirus quarantine breach

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 06 02:55 PM

A lawyer on Monday filed a criminal complaint against Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III for going out in public despite showing symptoms of COVID-19 for which he later tested positive, an incident that raised questions over how the government was implementing its community quarantine policy. Read more »

Voices from the frontline: The volunteer driver giving free rides to stranded medical workers

Updated as of Apr 06 12:56 PM

This is a collection of stories Deo Florence Onda has picked up from driving medical workers to and from their place of work—but this is also the story of Deo himself and how one marine scientist found himself behind the wheel. By CHIARA ZAMBRANO Read more »

Don't move, Rizal on total lockdown

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 06 12:29 PM

The entire Rizal Province was declared under total lockdown since 12 midnight of April 5 after the province declared its number of positive COVID-19 cases rose to more than a hundred.  Read more »

Caraga confirms first COVID-19 case

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Posted at Apr 06 11:55 AM

BUTUAN CITY - The northeastern Mindanao region of Caraga confirmed Monday its first case of COVID-19: an elderly resident of this city.    Read more »

Metro Manila residents to get lockdown cash aid before Maundy Thursday: DSWD

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Posted at Apr 06 11:45 AM

The Philippines will distribute cash aid for the poorest residents of Metro Manila before Maundy Thursday, 4 weeks into the month-long lockdown of the entire Luzon to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the social welfare department said Monday.  Read more »

Virus in, virus out

Andrew Kelly, Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 11:15 AM

A healthcare worker empties a trashcan containing contents that includes P.P.E outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on Saturday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. Read more »

Philippine-born nurse dies in UK's coronavirus frontline: report

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Updated as of Apr 06 10:56 AM

A 23-year-old nurse born in the Philippines died due to the coronavirus epidemic in the UK, according to a newspaper report.  Read more »

'Water-tight' protection from CoVID

Ted Alibe, AFP
Posted at Apr 06 09:09 AM

The Philippines confirmed 152 new cases of COVID-19 infection, bringing the country's total to 3,246 as of 4 p.m. April 5, 2020. Read more »

Philippines yet to flatten 'COVID-19 curve': gov't adviser

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Updated as of Apr 06 09:22 AM

The Philippines has yet to see a decrease in its daily new cases of COVID-19 as its largest island Luzon, home to 50 million, entered the last week of its monthlong lockdown, a government adviser said Monday.  Read more »

Students, teachers from all-girls school sing tributes for COVID-19 frontliners

Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 06 08:40 AM

Hoping to lift morale in the fight against COVID-19, the teachers and students of an all-girls school in Muntinlupa recorded a pair of spiritual songs for health workers and other frontliners.    Read more »

Longer Luzon lockdown? Duterte may decide next week: COVID-19 plan chief

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Updated as of Apr 06 09:02 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte might decide between this weekend and early next week on whether or not to extend the lockdown of some 50 million people in Luzon to contain COVID-19 cases, a leader of the country's pandemic action plan said Monday.    Read more »

After the virus: What world will we live in?

Didier Lauras, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 06 07:30 AM

One day, the battle against the novel coronavirus will be won. But the world that emerges may look very different from the one we lived in before the pandemic began.   Read more »

China says it has sold nearly 4 billion masks abroad

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 06 06:48 AM

China has sold nearly 4 billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports.   Read more »

Singapore quarantines migrant workers in virus fight

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 06 06:39 AM

Singapore has put nearly 20,000 migrant workers under quarantine for two weeks after a growing number of coronavirus infections were detected in their dormitories, authorities said Sunday.   Read more »

Tiger at New York's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 06:24 AM

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the first known case of COVID-19 in an animal in the United States or a tiger globally, a zoo spokesman said on Sunday.   Read more »

For the first time in a month, Vietnam reports no new COVID-19 cases today

Updated as of Apr 06 08:44 AM

Plus, slower rates in Australia and Spain, and John Krasinski creates a channel to promote good news. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

Here are hospitals that can still accept COVID-19 patients

Posted at Apr 05 12:23 PM

Here’s a list of hospitals that already have their hands full with coronavirus cases, along with other institutions where you can receive treatment. By MAAN D’ASIS PAMARAN Read more »