Araceli Buendia Ilagan
Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, a Filipina intensive care unit nurse in Miami, Florida died from COVID-19 after working on the front lines helping patients infected by the deadly virus (See Inquirer.net for story).
Filipino American CBS News producer and talent executive Maria Mercader died of Covid-19 in New York Sunday, March 29, the network announced. She was 54 and a cancer survivor (See Inquirer.net for story).
Jia Tolentino
Filipino American essayist and music critic Jia Tolentino has won a 2020 Whiting Award in Nonfiction for her book Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, which was published last year and became a New York Times bestseller (See Inquirer.net for story).
Filipino born Diosdado Banatao is among 20 of the most notable Stanford Alumni making strides in the business world, according to Money Magazine. Banatao’s list of achievements run from developing the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip to creating the first system logic chip set for IBM’s PC-XT and PC-AT (See story in MoneyInc.com0.
Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono (Ret.)
Gov. Jay Inslee on March 22 named retired Navy Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, a Filipino American, as Washington state director for COVID-19 Health System Response Management (See Inquirer.net for story).
Communist guerrillas in the Philippines said Wednesday they would observe a cease-fire in compliance with the U.N. chief's call for a global halt in armed clashes during the coronavirus pandemic (See Yahoo News for story).
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine Congress on Tuesday approved a bill declaring a national emergency and authorizing the president to launch a massive aid program for 18 million families and tap private hospitals and ships in fighting the coronavirus outbreak (See Yahoo News for story).
More than 670 Filipino health workers have been quarantined over fears they were exposed to coronavirus, while others have resorted to using bin bags for protection as case numbers rise across much of south-east Asia (See The Guardian for story).
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