MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The country’s total manufacturing output slid by 73.4 percent year-on-year in March, the fastest drop in seven months, mainly due to the temporary closure of the only remaining oil refinery in the Philippines.
The Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) monthly integrated survey of selected industries for March, which was released on Friday, showed the volume of production index (VoPI) proxy for factory output posted the steepest decline since the 82.2 per cent in August 2020.
National Statistician Dennis Mapa said the main contributor to March’s VoPI contraction was the 97.4-percent fall in the production of petroleum coke and refined oil products.
A health worker inoculates a woman with China s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at a drive-thru vaccination site in Manila, Philippines on May 7, 2021. - AP
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The government is ramping up measures to block the entry of the Indian variant of the coronavirus that is believed to be killing tens of thousands daily during the current surge in Covid-19 cases in the South Asian country, according to presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
Under new guidelines issued by the government’s pandemic managers, all Filipino and foreign travellers arriving in the country starting on Friday (May 7) this week will be required to spend the first 10 days of a mandatory 14-day quarantine in a government accredited facility.
Vietnam 02 May 2021
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Philippines’ trade in goods with the rest of the world rose 5 per cent year-on-year to $43.1 billion in the first quarter of the year amid an overall recovering global economy from last year’s pandemic-induced recession.
The latest preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data showed that merchandise exports from January to March grew by 7.6 per cent year-on-year to $17.6 billion, while imports were up by 3.2 per cent to $25.6 billion, reversing the 5.6-per cent contraction in external trade a year ago.
In March alone, total foreign trade climbed 22.5 per cent year-on-year to $15.8 billion, the highest value of exports and imports combined since the $16.3 billion recorded in October 2019.
In this April 24, 2021, file photo, a patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi, India. - AP
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): For the past couple of weeks, the world has watched in horror as the pandemic in India reached apocalyptic proportions, illustrated by the desperate search for oxygen and the unceasing smoke from funeral pyres.
With daily cases well above 300,000, India accounts for over a third of the world s daily reported cases, and its daily death toll of over 3,000 now exceeds that of Brazil. Local experts say even these grim figures grossly underestimate the true magnitude of the crisis.
Philippines 02 May 2021
A health worker prepares to inoculate a woman with China s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at a drive-thru vaccination site in Manila, Philippines on May 7, 2021. - AP
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday (May 7) an additional 7,733 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the nationwide active infections to 66,626.
According to DOH, active cases compose 6.1 per cent of all the 1,087,885 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country recorded since the onset of the pandemic. Of the active cases, 96.3 per cent are mild and asymptomatic.
Meanwhile, there are also 4,227 additional patients who have recovered, raising the number of recoveries to 1,003,160, or 92.2 percent of the total case count.