The Philippines has stopped doctors, nurses, medics and other healthcare workers from going abroad while it needs their skills to meet the threat of the coronavirus spreading at home, a foreign affairs official said. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration issued the order on April 2, though it was only made public on Friday (See Yahoo News for story).
Leila Benitez (Source: CNN Philippines)
Legendary TV and radio personality Leila Benitez-McCollum passed away Thursday morning (Manila time) due to complications from COVID-19 in New York City, a family member confirmed to CNN Philippines. She was 89.
The Philippines on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Vietnam after Hanoi protested what it said was the ramming and sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard ship in the disputed South China Sea (See Yahoo News for story).
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.
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