April, 2020
More tests needed as Philippines unlikely to reach COVID-19 peak soon – expert
April 13, 2020 · By CNN Philippines Staff for cnnphilippines.com
Esperanza Cabral, who served as head of the Department of Health in 2010, said the country can still expect an increase in positive cases in the next two weeks. “I don’t think we are peaking next week or even the week after. I don’t think we have controlled coronavirus yet,” Cabral told CNN Philippines’ The Source, […]
Read More...We All Want to Live
April 8, 2020 ·
We All Want to Live Fr. Shay Cullen 8 April 2020 What do we recall these holy days but the life-giving love and compassion of one person who changed the world by teaching mankind that justice is more powerful than revenge, that compassion is greater than condemnation, that believing in goodness and truth to […]
Read More...Attacked & underpaid: Medics in Philippines battle stigma, virus
April 8, 2020 ·
Manila, Philippines – Joaquin Sapul, Jr started getting the frantic calls a few hours after the health department announced the first coronavirus case in Iloilo City in the central Philippines on March 21. In response, The Medical City-Iloilo, the hospital where Sapul works and where the unnamed patient was confined, issued a statement to assure the […]
Read More...The Philippines is sending its nurses to the frontline underprotected. Now medics are dying, others risk spreading the virus
April 8, 2020 · By Xyza Cruz Bacani, CNN for www.cnnphilippines.com
(CNN) — Every day, Filipina nurse April Abrias walks six miles to monitor 30 patients who are suspected to have the novel coronavirus in a rural province north of the Philippines’ capital, Manila. The 29-year-old midwife doesn’t have a surgical mask to cover her face — instead, she wears a cloth mask that provides insufficient protection from […]
Read More...South Korea sets standard for Covid-19 testing
April 8, 2020 · By UCAN News for www.ucanews.com
April 01, 2020 When a new coronavirus was detected in Chinese city Wuhan last December, South Korea set up an emergency team to study the disease. The early action taken by the South Korean government and the knowledge gained about Covid-19 went on to shape what has become the world’s most ambitious virus-testing program. Britain’s […]
Read More...Duterte orders troops to shoot quarantine violators
April 8, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja for www.ucanews.com
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered police and the military to shoot community quarantine violators if they pose a risk to their lives and the lives of others. “I would not hesitate. My order to the police and the military is, when the occasion arises that the public puts your life at risk … shoot them […]
Read More...Breakthrough, Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’
April 7, 2020 · By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Scientists have taken a step towards one of the biggest goals in medicine – a universal blood test for cancer. A team at Johns Hopkins University has trialled a method that detects eight common forms of the disease. Their vision is an annual test designed to catch cancer early and save lives. UK experts said […]
Read More...Major Victory for Alaska’s Majestic Trees and for the Climate
April 7, 2020 · By Jessica A. Knoblauch for earthjustice.org
Protecting trees, particularly old-growth trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, is a win for local communities and for the climate. On Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, majestic mega-trees that are key to combatting climate change have been protected from chainsaws after a federal judge rejected a sweeping logging plan that would have spanned a project […]
Read More...Coal power developers ‘risk wasting billions’
April 7, 2020 · By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst for www.bbc.com
Coal power developers risk wasting hundreds of billions of pounds as new renewable sources are now cheaper than new coal plants, a report has said. The shift is mainly due to cheaper wind and solar power, Carbon Tracker said. It added that in 10 years it will be cheaper to close down coal plants and […]
Read More...Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds
April 7, 2020 · By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst for www.bbc.com
The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study by the University of Leeds of 86 countries claims. The wealthiest tenth of people consume about 20 times more energy overall than the bottom ten, wherever they live. The gulf is greatest in transport, where the top tenth gobble 187 times more […]
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