Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday approved the extension of lockdown and home quarantine measures covering more than half of the population, a crisis panel official said, in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The Enhanced Community Quarantine was due to end next week but would be extended until April 30 (See Yahoo News for story).
Priests on tricycles delivering blessings (Manila Standard)
Priests delivered blessings from the back of trucks and motorised tricycles in the Philippine Sunday, adapting the deeply Catholic nation's traditions to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic (See Manila Standard for story)..
Tanya Guerrero
Tanya Guerrero’s young adult book, How to Make Friends with the Sea, was released Tuesday by Farrar Straus Giroux (See Inquirer.net for story).
Chef Rodelio Aglibot
Internationally renowned Filipino American chef and restaurateur Rodelio Aglibot, 52, the television “Food Buddha,” died of cardiac arrest Saturday, March 28 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Family and friends posted that his death doesn’t appear to be COVID-19 related (See Inquirer.net for story).
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police and military to "shoot dead" any "troublemakers" who cause disturbances during the coronavirus quarantine in the Philippines, The Philippine Star reports. The move comes after protestors staged demonstrations over the lack of food and financial aid they've received from the government since the lockdown began in the country on March 17.
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).
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