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Philippines health official says COVID-19 cases start to peak
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Manila[Philippines], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The steady uptick in the COVID-19 infections in the Philippines signals the start of the peak of cases, the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday.
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Plane veers off runway in Philippines, passengers evacuated
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): A Saudi Arabian Airlines plane from Riyadh veered off the runway shortly after landing in the Philippine capital Manila on Monday, with 399 passengers and 21 crew on board all evacuated.
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Philippine Defense Secretary faints at Independence Day ceremony
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 12 (ANI): Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana fainted during an Independence Day ceremony on Sunday morning, according to media reports.
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Philippines tightens screening of Japan-bound Filipinos to curb human traf
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Bureau of Immigration (BI) has tightened the screening of Filipinos travelling to Japan to curb human trafficking.
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More dengue cases reported in Philippines
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday that the number of dengue cases recorded from Jan. 1 to May 21 this year is 23 percent higher than the cases recorded in the same period last year.
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Philippines raises alert level at volcano southeast of Manila
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday raised the alert level for Bulusan volcano from zero to one after the volcano in Sorsogon province, southeast of Manila, spewed a grey plume about a kilometer high into the sky.
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Philippines detects 2 cases of Omicron sub-variant BA.5
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 3 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines has detected COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.5 from two people in the same household in a province north of the capital, an official from the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.
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Rescuers search for 8 missing crew members in ship collision in Philippine
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Rescuers from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) are searching for eight missing crew members of a fishing vessel that sank off Palawan province after colliding with a cargo vessel on Saturday afternoon, a PCG spokesperson said on Sunday.
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Marcos says Philippines to uphold South China Sea ruling
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 28 (ANI): Newly-elected Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has said that he would uphold an international ruling against Beijing over the disputed South China Sea.
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Philippine Congress proclaims Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos winner of preside
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippine Congress on Wednesday proclaimed Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos winner of the presidential election, succeeding Rodrigo Duterte, who steps down in June after six years in office.
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 Richter scale jolts Philippines
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 22 (ANI): An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Batangas province on the main Philippine island of Luzon at 5:50 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
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Philippines installs buoys in disputed South China Sea
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 22 (ANI): The Philippines has installed the buoys and opened some command posts to assert its sovereignty in the waters and islands it claims in the contested South China Sea.
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