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關鍵詞:with COVID in Iran Pinoys from
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「FILIPINOS IN IRAN ARE REMINDED TO FOLLOW THE DOH ADVISORY ON PREVENTIVE MEASURES, SUCH AS: HAND HYGIENE, AVOIDING SYMPTOMATIC INDIVIDUALS, PROPER COUGHING ETIQUETTE, AVOIDING CONTACT WITH FARM ANIMALS, CONSUMING ENOUGH WATER, COOKING FOOD THOROUGHLY AND IMMEDIATELY CONSULTING A DOCTOR WHEN EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19. ALSO, AVOID UNNECESSARY TRAVEL AND PUBLIC GATHERINGS FOR THE TIME BEING,」 IT ADDED.
IRAN HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST CASES OF COVID-19 INFECTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING 15 DEATHS. ONE OF THE CONFIRMED CASES IS IRAN"S DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER IRAJ HARIRCHI
BAHRAIN HAS IDENTIFIED SIX MORE NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS ALL COMING FROM IRAN, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER IN THE KINGDOM TO 23, THE STATE NEWS AGENCY BNA REPORTED, CITING THE HEALTH MINISTRY.
THE PHILIPPINES ON WEDNESDAY IMPOSED TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON PARTS OF SOUTH KOREA AND BARRED FILIPINO TOURISTS FROM GOING TO THE EAST ASIAN NATION DUE TO RISING CASES OF THE DEADLY NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) INFECTIONS.
DESPITE OUR PROXIMITY TO CHINA, THE LARGE NUMBER OF CHINESE TOURISTS VISITING AND THE REPATRIATION OF FILIPINOS FROM INFECTED AREAS, WE HAVE NOT RECORDED A PERSON-TO-PERSON TRANSFER OF COVID-19. THE AGING MAN FROM WUHAN INFECTED WITH COVID-19 WHO DIED IN ONE OF OUR HOSPITALS SUCCUMBED TO PNEUMONIA.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN HUBEI SAY THAT SEVERAL FORMER INMATES HAD BEEN SENT BACK TO THEIR HOME PROVINCES THIS MONTH AFTER FINISHING THEIR TERM IN PRISON, WITH POLICE CHAPERONE TO GET THROUGH CHECKPOINTS. HOWEVER, WUHAN WOMEN』S PRISON — WHERE HUANG WAS ALLEGED TO BE RELEASED FROM — SAID ON WEDNESDAY THAT IT HADN』T RELEASED ANY INMATES RECENTLY DUE TO THE LATEST WAVE OF CONFIRMED INFECTIONS IN JAIL.
FEARING A RADICAL SLOWDOWN IN THE COUNTRY』S MANUFACTURING SECTORS, INDIA』S PREMIER INDUSTRY BODY THE CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRY (CII) HAS URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO SET UP A SPECIAL TASKFORCE TO DEAL WITH THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON IMPORTS FROM CHINA.
SAUDI ARABIA, THE MOST POPULAR DESTINATION WITH A QUARTER OF ALL OFWS, HAS NO VIRUS OUTBREAK. JUST 12,000 FILIPINOS WORK IN CHINA, EXCLUDING HONG KONG, AND SEND BACK 0.1% OF TOTAL REMITTANCES FROM OVERSEAS. CHINA HAS REPORTED THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE 80,000-ODD VIRUS CASES WORLDWIDE.
WAHIDA GHALAYINI, HEAD OF THE NURSING DEPARTMENT, SPEAKS TO JOURNALISTS AT THE QUARANTINE DEPARTMENT AT RAFIK HARIRI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN BEIRUT, LEBANON. LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTER HAMAD HASSAN SAID ALL PEOPLE TRAVELING FROM IRAN TO LEBANON WILL BE TESTED FOR THE NEW VIRUS THAT STARTED IN CHINA BEFORE BOARDING FLIGHTS TO THE ARAB COUNTRY AFTER A WOMAN TESTED POSITIVE EARLIER THIS WEEK UPON HER RETURN FROM IRAN. AP
TO DATE, THE PHILIPPINES SAYS ONLY THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH THE VIRUS – ALL CHINESE NATIONALS FROM WUHAN – INCLUDING ONE WHO DIED, AND TWO WHO REPORTEDLY RECOVERED AND LEFT THE COUNTRY. OVERSEAS, 85 FILIPINOS HAVE CONTRACTED THE VIRUS: 80 ABOARD THE DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP, THREE IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ONE IN HONG KONG, AND ONE IN SINGAPORE.
BEFORE WHO DECLARED COVID-19 AS A GLOBAL EMERGENCY THE IMF AND WB PROJECTED AN UPTICK IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2020 FROM THE DISAPPOINTING PERFORMANCE IN 2019 AS A RESULT OF THE US-CHINA TRADE WAR AND OTHER DISRUPTIONS. WITH COVID-19, MANY KEEN OBSERVERS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY PREDICT A SLOWDOWN INSTEAD, WITH RECESSION NOT FAR FROM THEIR MINDS TO COME IN MANY COUNTRIES WITH STRONG GLOBAL ECONOMIC LINKAGES THROUGH FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENTS.
IN ITALY, WHICH HOSTS AN ESTIMATED 100,000 OFWS, SEVERAL AREAS ARE ON LOCKDOWN DUE TO COVID-19 CONTAGION. NOW THE CORONAVIRUS IS SPREADING IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, THE BIGGEST JOB MARKET FOR FILIPINOS, WHERE AT LEAST 2.2 MILLION OFWS ARE EMPLOYED. IN IRAN, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT HAS CONFIRMED 12 DEATHS FROM COVID-19, THE DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER HIMSELF HAS BECOME INFECTED.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH UNTV』S MORNING PROGRAM GOOD MORNING KUYA, CHARGE D』 AFFAIRS CONSUL CHRISTIAN DE JESUS SAID THAT SO FAR, THERE ARE NO COVID-19 CASES INVOLVING A FILIPINO IN SOUTH KOREA.
- SOME 30 BRITISH PASSENGERS ARRIVED BACK HOME ON FEB. 22 FROM THE DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP IN JAPAN. THERE WERE MORE THAN 70 BRITISH PASSENGERS ON THE CRUISE LINER WHEN CASES OF COVID-19 STARTED TO EMERGE.
THE FIRST FILIPINO COVID-19 PATIENT IN HONG KONG IS EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK, PROVIDED HER TEST RESULTS REMAIN NEGATIVE, THE CONSULATE SAID.
THE DFA SAID THEY HAVE BEEN COORDINATING WITH JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND THE OPERATOR OF THE VESSEL TO ENSURE THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE SMOOTH ONCE THE REPATRIATION PROCESS BEGINS. – RRD (WITH DETAILS FROM CORRESPONDENT AIKO MIGUEL)
IN EUROPE, WHERE GERMANY, FRANCE AND SPAIN WERE AMONG THE PLACES WITH A GROWING CASELOAD, AN EXPANDING CLUSTER OF MORE THAN 440 CASES IN NORTHERN ITALY WAS EYED AS A SOURCE FOR TRANSMISSIONS. IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WHERE CASES INCREASED IN BAHRAIN, KUWAIT AND IRAQ, BLAME WAS DIRECTED TOWARD IRAN. IN ASIA, WHERE THE CRISIS ORIGINATED LATE LAST YEAR IN CHINA, THREATS CONTINUED TO EMERGE AROUND THE REGION, WITH SOUTH KOREA BATTLING A MASS OUTBREAK CENTRED IN THE 2.5 MILLION-PERSON CITY OF DAEGU.
FRANCE REPORTED THE FIRST DEATH OF A FRENCH CITIZEN FROM THE EPIDEMIC AS CASES SPREAD RAPIDLY ACROSS EUROPE, WITH SPAIN CONFIRMING EIGHT NEW CASES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS AND NEW INFECTIONS REPORTED IN FRANCE, CROATIA, AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND. ALTHOUGH CHINA ANNOUNCED A DECLINE IN NEW CONFIRMED CASES ON WEDNESDAY, NUMBERS SOARED IN SOUTH KOREA TO OVER 1,200, WITH MORE EXPECTED IN THE COMING DAYS AS THE STATE ATTEMPTS TO TEST 200,000 PEOPLE.
TRUMP CREDITED BORDER RESTRICTIONS THAT HAVE BLOCKED PEOPLE COMING INTO THE US FROM CHINA FOR KEEPING INFECTIONS LOW SO FAR. BUT NOW COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD — FROM SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN TO ITALY AND IRAN — ARE EXPERIENCING GROWING NUMBERS OF CASES. ASKED IF IT WAS TIME TO EITHER LIFT THE CHINA RESTRICTIONS, OR TAKE STEPS FOR TRAVELERS FROM ELSEWHERE, HE SAID: 「AT A RIGHT TIME WE MAY DO THAT. RIGHT NOW IT』S NOT THE TIME.」
WHILE THE NUMBER OF VIRUS CASES IN CHINA IS DECLINING, CONCERN WAS RAISED ON THE INCUBATION PERIOD AFTER 70-YEAR-OLD MAN IN HUBEI PROVINCE WAS INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS BUT DID NOT SHOW SYMPTOMS UNTIL 27 DAYS LATER.THIS CASE COULD MEAN THE COVID-19 INCUBATION PERIOD COULD BE MUCH LONGER THAN THE PRESUMED 14 DAYS.
THE KREMLIN INDICATED TUESDAY HOWEVER, THAT AN ERDOGAN-PUTIN MEETING WAS NOT ON THE CARDS, ALSO SAYING THAT A TRIPARTITE SUMMIT WITH ANOTHER REGIME ALLY IRAN COULD BE PLANNED INSTEAD OF A MULTILATERAL ONE WITH FRANCE AND GERMANY.

 

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