Lives are at risk as the new coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in the trafficking of substandard masks, sanitizers, and other medical products, the UN warned Wednesday. A discarded face mask lying on the ground along a street in the central Karrada district of Iraq's capital Baghdad. (Photo...
Four more depot personnel of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total numbers of infected employees to 202 as of Tuesday night, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday. DOTr Assistant Secretary Goddess Libiran said that of the infected workers, 181 are...
In this file photo, the Philippine water polo team celebrates after a draw with Singapore to earn a sure silver medal finish in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games at the New Clark City Aquatic Center in Tarlac. (MB File Photo / Mark Balmores) A training camp in Japan and an international meet at the...
End of an era for three-time defending PFL champion Ceres-Negros pose for a team photo before its AFC Cup match against Indonesia's Bali United last March. (Ceres-Negros Images) Ceres-Negros, Philippine football’s rags-to-riches story, formally announced on Wednesday its decision to transfer...
Dwight Howard #39 of the Los Angeles Lakers (Photo by Harry How / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard says he will play when the NBA season resumes in Orlando on July 30 despite concerns the restart might distract from his social activism. Howard announced his...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Photo by Stacy Revere / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) NBA commissioner Adam Silver reiterated Tuesday that a "significant spread" of coronavirus could burst the league's safety "bubble" and cause a second shutdown of the season. Silver said he fully expects some...
BACOLOD CITY - Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has confirmed the local transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Negros Occidental, following the reporting of two confirmed cases infecting an ambulance driver and a rescuer. “This is an unfortunate incident where a frontliner, in the...
Quezon City (QC) Mayor Joy Belmonte on Wednesday announced that she tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte (FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Nais ko pong ipahayag sa lahat ng aking minamahal na QCitizens na ako po ay nag-positibo sa aking...
India's financial capital Mumbai opened four new coronavirus field hospitals on Tuesday -- including one at a horseracing track -- as the nationwide death toll jumped past 20,000. A makeshift field hospital to treat coronavirus patients has opened at Mumbai's Mahalaxmi Racecourse (AFP Photo / Punit...
CEBU CITY — Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, who is currently the chief coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response implementor in the Viayas, expressed his optimism that Cebu City’s enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status will be downgraded to general community quarantine (GCQ) by July 16....
Roger Federer (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) Roger Federer on Monday said he is "missing" Wimbledon after the grass-court Grand Slam was cancelled, but hopes to play the tournament in 2021. The 38-year-old, who has undergone two knee surgeries this year, had already announced he will not play...
PH coronavirus disease cases continue to rise The Department of Health (DOH) said that the country's case fatality rate is decreasing despite the continued rise in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. “For now...we can see that the deaths here in the country are slowly going...
