‘Zombie Detective’ actress Jung Chae-yull passes away at 26

Anne Pasajol 04/13/2023

South Korean actress-model Jung Chae-yull was reportedly found dead at her home on Tuesday, April 11. She was 26 years old. Jung Chae-yull’s talent agency, Management S, confirmed her passing through an official statement obtained by Korean…

North Korea executes people for South Korean videos, drugs – report

Reuters 03/30/2023

SEOUL — North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens’ human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report on Thursday. South Korea’s Unification…

Grief and closure

Michael L. Tan - @inquirerdotnet 11/01/2022

This was a terrible time last year, the COVID-19 death toll climbing since its start early in 2020, and peaking, in the Philippines, around the month of September with the deadly Delta strain. COVID-19 raised a new…

Cebu City logs first two COVID deaths in May

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 05/29/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) recorded its first two COVID-related deaths for the month of May this weekend. The EOC May 28, 2022 report showed that the City logged its…

E-sabong’s social costs: Debt, possibly, even death

Kurt dela Peña 05/04/2022

MANILA, Philippines—As sabong (cockfight) went online in 2018, the House of Representatives already expressed its concerns, but as COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented in 2020, the craze even went wilder. It was in 2020 when Mike Tabelina, 32,…

Unvaccinated persons make up 88% of COVID-19 deaths in Cebu – VVOC spox

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/21/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Most of the people who died of the COVID-19 in Cebu from January 1 to 19, 2022, are unvaccinated individuals. Doctor Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson of the Visayas Vaccination Operation Center (VVOC)…

Deaths due to typhoon Odette in entire Cebu now 76

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/20/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – As of Monday afternoon, December 20, the total number of deaths due to Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) in the entire Cebu have reached 76. This was after Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, in a…

Only two COVID-19 deaths in Cebu City for November – EOC

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/06/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Only two deaths were recorded in Cebu City for the first week of November 2021. This signifies a massive improvement of the COVID-19 situation in the city, which was already recognized even by…

Cebu City’s COVID daily positivity rate drops to 1.35%

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/22/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City’s COVID-19 daily positivity rate dropped to 1.35 percent on October 21, 2021, the lowest it has ever reached this year. Councilor Joel Garganera, the deputy chief implementor of the EOC, revealed…

COVID-19 mortalities in Cebu City on the decline — EOC

Dyrecka Letigio 09/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) said that mortalities from COVID-19 have been on the decline for the past weeks now. Councilor Joel Garganera, the deputy chief implementor of the EOC said…

DOH reports 13,573 new COVID-19 cases

Cathrine Gonzales - Reporter 08/25/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) reported 13,573 more COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the country’s total coronavirus infections to 125,378. The DOH said the lower number of COVID-19 cases is due to lower testing…

Deaths surge in US and Canada from worst heatwave on record

Reuters 07/01/2021

VANCOUVER/PORTLAND — A heatwave that smashed all-time high-temperature records in western Canada and the U.S. Northwest has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling weather and the threat of wildfires.…

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