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A lone report received by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Sunday confirmed that three Filipinos in the Americas have recovered from COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) infections.
The Department also reported 61 new recoveries among Filipino nationals in the same regions mentioned. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases involving overseas Filipinos to 13,642 since the outbreak began in February, 2020. Of the total confirmed cases, 8,745 have recovered, 3,935 remain under treatment and 944 perished due to COVID-19 infections. Meanwhile, the DFA suspended the operations of its Consular Office in Tuguegarao, Cagayan from January 20-29, 2021 after the entire City of Tuguegarao was placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). The Consular Office in Tug...
Published January 9, 2021, 4:37 PM Jason Brickman (Photo from ABL) It appears that the talent-rich PBA Rookie Draft will lose some potential first-rounders in Jason Brickman, Brandon Rosser and Jeremiah Grey. Agent Charlie Dy, who represents the three players, said the PBA thumbed down their draft applications after failing to secure recognition from the Bureau of Immigration and affirmation from the Department of Justice. Dy also said in former PBA commissioner Noli Eala’s program Power and Play that Brickman, Rosser and Grey are likely out of the draft proceedings set March 14, unless the...
Saudis in accordance with u.s. air -- you know, foreign military sales case. what does the vetting look like for participants? >> so at first when the saudis would nominate an individual to participate in this program, they will go through our state department, the consular office in that country, in this case saudi arabia would do a normal screening for them, a vetting procedure just like they would for issuing work visas for anybody else. so there's an initial screening there, and then the department of defense also does yet another vetting and screening of these individuals as they, you kno...
Terror-prone, if that is the standard that we know that they offer, does that also mean, in your view, that france and belgium will be added to that list? >> you could certainly make the case. one can only imagine waking up in the morning at a consular office, a consular section in a u.s. embassy, hastily-doing hand-made signs that say something like, somali citizens please report to this or that desk to be explained that they're not going to be eligible. i mean, there's just so much ad-hoc-ery, it's going to chaotic. where is the congress on this? it has a look of executive orders that seem t...