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Published April 9, 2021, 5:00 AM With major hospitals in Metro Manila and nearby areas operating beyond full capacity, the Department of Transportation (DOTr), together with the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), are converting two of their quarantine facilities into isolation facilities to accommodate more COVID-19 patients by tomorrow, Friday ( April 9). These are the Eva Macapagal Super Terminal in Pier 15, Manila and the Port of Capinpin Quarantine Facility in Orion, Bataan. The DOTr Maritim...

Published April 8, 2021, 7:49 PM The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has faith in the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow the compassionate use of Ivermectin for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, “We trust FDA in their decisions. They are our regulatory authority for food and drugs,” DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña told the Manila Bulletin in a VIber message after FDA Director General Eric Domingo announced during the Laging Handa press b...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A team from the FS Tonnerre boards a suspicious dhow. French Marine Nationale ships have recorded five seizures of illicit drugs in just six days whilst participating in a counter-narcotics focused operation under the command of Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 in the Arabian Sea. The string of successes began on 19 March when the French frigate FS Nivôse intercepted a high-value shipment of 367 kg of methamphetamine and 311 kg...

(Photo by MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña and Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara, chair of the Task Group  on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection (TG-VES), cheered at the announcement of the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that Janssen, which is owned by American multinational company Johnson & Johnson, filed for an EUA on March 31. “We welcome the news of another COVID-19 vaccine applying for E...

(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after President Duterte approved extending the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal until April 11 due to the high number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. In a statement, Roque said the following national government agencies have been directed to ensure the strict enforcement of the PDITR strategy: · Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) fo...

COLLEGE: Cllr Beverley Nielsen announced a meeting was taking place with WCG THE college group handling the ongoing closure of Malvern Hills College has hit back at accusations they are not working to secure its future. WCG, which announced in November its plans to close the college, moved to clarify a number of issues raised by Cllr Beverley Nielsen, chair of the Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group. A spokesman said: “We would reiterate that the announcement by WCG to cease operations...

Normal text size Very large text size The big wet was just setting in over NSW last month when Colonel Warwick Young received the call. It was Marg Prendergast, executive director of disaster recovery at Resilience NSW. The one in 50-year flood event had only just begun its wrath. Floodwaters in the Hawkesbury River pass under Hawkesbury River Bridge at Mooney Mooney. Credit:Wolter Peeters The army reservist of 30 years recalls: “Marg rang me and said, ‘We’re having a meeting. Ca...

CALL: Malvern Hills College; Cllr Robin Lunn (left) and Cllr Richard Udall (right) LABOUR councillors are calling on the county council to step in and buy Malvern Hills College to prevent it from closing. The college is due to close in August after bosses said it was too expensive to keep open with many students moving to courses in other parts of the county. Malvern Hills College has now been listed as an asset of community value, through the work of the Malvern Hills College SOS Task Gr...

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Treasure Trove: The Navy Won Big By Capturing This Nazi Submarine The intelligence materials taken from U-505 allowed Allied Naval Intelligence to read U-boat signals as fast as the Germans themselves. Heres What You Need to Remember: Fortunately, no word ever reached German intelligence. Gallery told all hands attached to the task group that nothing must be said about what happened during the cruise, and amazingly the men did as they were told. The public did not find out about U-505 until af...