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DOH in public: Avoid going and seeking treatment at illegal Chinese clinics
The Department of Health (DOH) has warned the public not to go and treat unauthorized medical facilities for patients with coronavirus disease. This is a statement from the department in the midst of the authorities’ crackdown on illegal Chinese clinics treating COVID-19 patients recently. According to the DOH, public health will only be at risk…
Even with COVID-19 positive, several Saudi OFWs were grouped into one room
An OFW calls to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and his Filipino colleagues to return to the Philippines. Their employer did not take good care of them and even combined them into a single room, even though they had their room mates with COVID-19
WATCH LIVE: Pope Francis to pray the rosary with the Shrines of the world
The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization announces that Pope Francis is to join Marian sanctuaries across the world, to pray to the Virgin Mary for help amidst the pandemic. By Gabriella Ceraso “Devoted and with one accord to prayer, together with Mary (cf. Acts 1:14)”. On this theme Pope Francis will lead the…
Nearly 2,000 additional Nat’l Guard soldiers, deployed to Minneapolis – authorities
The state of Minnesota plans to send nearly 2,000 additional National Guards to help maintain order in the city of Minneapolis. It is still not fair that the citizens of the country are committing acts of protest following the brutal execution of Black American George Floyd. Major General Jon Jensen of the Minnesota National Guard…
UPCAT Results 2020 (FULL LIST OF PASSERS – A.Y 2020-2021)
This is the complete list of passers for the UPCAT Results Academic Year 2020-2021 from the University of the Philippines (UP). The list of passers and related announcement for the UPCAT Results AY 2020-2021 will be available on this website after it was officially released. The University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) is an annual admission…
Blood samples of coronavirus patients stolen by monkeys
A group of monkeys has been searched in India after stealing blood samples of coronavirus-positive patients. According to Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College and Hospital medical superintendent Dr. Dheeraj Baliyan, while walking by his lab assistant working at the COVID-19 facility and carrying blood samples for examination. Immediately attacked by monkeys it took a…
Kidney transplant of 2013 Miss International Bea Rose Santiago postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
2013 Miss International Bea Rose Santiago has not resumed her kidney-transplant due to a coronavirus pandemic. She said that while the transplant was postponed, his dialysis treatment continued in Toronto, Canada. View this post on Instagram How I look going to Toronto General getting dialysis supply and giving my monthly blood work for May🦹🏻♀️ Thanks…
Ex-model Avi Shiva, arrested after allegedly selling unlicensed COVID-19 test kits
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) personnel arrested a former model who allegedly sold unlicensed COVID-19 test kits. According to the NBI, Avigail Siwa was forced to sell test kits online without a license from the Food and Drug Administration. Ronald Aguto, chief of the NBI International Operations Division, warned that the sale of test…
Random checkpoints, ‘Oplan Habol, Oplan Sita’ will be implemented in GCQ areas such as NCR – Eleazar
It is not new to the PNP to rule on security or quarantine checkpoints in areas under the general community quarantine (GCQ), just in Metro Manila that has just been put into GCQ. Police said Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the Joint Task Force COVID-Shield, is only allowed outside his home by authorized persons…