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From the latest report from Rappler, there are now 52 confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines, three more asof today, Thursday, March 12, 2020.
You can read the full report from Rappler from the embedded tweet below;
BREAKING: DOH confirms 3 new cases of COVID-19, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the Philippines to 52.
Details soon on https://t.co/xRifPLHRsK. pic.twitter.com/I3QZP5ltMq
— Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) March 12, 2020
Featured image from Rappler.
If you are coming from the Philippines, you won’t be able enter Saudi Arabia, since the Kingdom just included Philippines in their travel restriction list.
You are exempted from the travel ban if you are a health workers in as long as you take the necessary precautions and cleared enter the country.
Here are the list of countries as reported by Arab News;
Region
1. Bahrain
2. Egypt
3. Iraq
4. Kuwait
5. Lebanon
6. Oman
Syria
7. Turkey
8. UAE
ASIA1. China
2. India
3. Pakistan
4. Philippines
5. South Korea
6. Sri LankaAFRICA
1. Djibouti
2. Eritrea
3. Ethiopia
4. Kenya
5. Somalia
6. South Sudan
7. SudanEUROPE
1. Austria
2. Belgium
3. Bulgaria
4. Croatia
5. Cyprus
6. Czech Republic
7. Denmark
8. Estonia
9. Finland
10. France
11. Germany
12. Greece
13. Hungary
14. Ireland
15. Italy
16. Latvia
17. Lithuania
18. Luxembourg
19. Malta
20. Netherlands
21. Poland
22. Portugal
23. Romania
24. Slovakia
25. Slovenia
26. Spain
27. Sweden
28. Switzerland (non-EU member)
via Philstar.com;
MANILA, Philippines (2nd update at 1:20 a.m.) — The Department of Health confirmed four additional cases of the novel coronavirus disease, namely two Filipinos and two foreign nationals who are being treated in undisclosed private hospitals.
The report released shortly before midnight on Monday brings the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines to 10.
Two of the four new cases are foreigner and two Filipinos
- A 38-year-old Taiwanese man who did not recently travel outside the country. However, he was in contact with another Taiwanese national while in the Philippines who was later diagnosed with COVID-19 in Taiwan. His symptoms started manifesting on March 3.
- A 32-year-old Filipino man who returned from a trip to Japan within the last 14 days. The onset of his symptoms was on March 5.
- An 86-year-old American man who traveled to the United States and South Korea. He has preexisting hypertension. His symptoms began on March 1.
- A 57-year-old Filipino man who was reported to have had contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case in the Philippines. He has no history of travel.
Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) just announced that they will close its Sta. Rosa Manufacturing Plant, effective March 2020. In their official announcement, Honda said “To meet Honda’s customer needs in the Philippines for reasonably priced and good quality products, Honda considered efficient allocation and distribution of resources. As such, after consideration of optimization efforts in the production operations in Asia and Oceania region, Honda decided to close the manufacturing operations of HCPI.”
HCPI will still continue its automobile sales and after-sales service operation in the Philippines, through the utilization of Honda’s Asia and Oceania regional network. To date, Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) employs 650 associates.
The Honda Sta. Rosa plant was established in November 1990 wit a capital investment of Php 1.9 billion and began its its operations in 1992.
Even without Jordan Clarkson, Philippines Men’s Basketball Team defeated Kazakhstan, in their first outing in the 2018 Asian Games, Thursday, August 16 at the GBK Basketball Hall in Jakarta, Indonesia.
It was Stanley Pringle who did most of the damage, with his 18 points , 4 rebounds and 2 assists, of course with the help veteran James Yap with his 12 points, 5 boards, a steal and a block; and SMB rookie Christian Standhardinger, 15 points, 4 boards and a steal.
The Scores
Philippines 96 – Pringle 18, Standhardinger 15, Yap 12, Lee 10, Tiu 9, Norwood 7, Almazan 6, Erram 5, Belga 5, Taulava 5, Ahanmisi 4.
Kazakhstan 59 – Bykov 13, Gavrilov 9, Yergali 8, Zhigulin 7, Kuanov 6, Bazhin 6, Chsherbak 6, Maidekin 2, Marchuk 2, Yagodkin 0, Murzagaliyev 0, Satkeyev 0.
Quarters: 16-9, 41-20, 61-43, 96-59.
Philippines’ next assignment will be against China on Tuesday, August 21 at 4 pm (5 pm in Manila), where the 26-year-old Clarkson is expected to join the team.
Image: 2018 Asian Games
Here’s the official statement from the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP);
SBP Statement on Philippine Participation in the 2018 Asian Games pic.twitter.com/bYJkGEi74R
— SBP (@officialSBPinc) July 26, 2018
SBP did not state any reason other than “to allow our National team and our organization to regroup, prepare for the process of appealing the FIBA Disciplinary Panel..”
In this ESPN 5 article, PBA commissioner Willie Marcial said that the Rain or Shine (RoS) management remains willing to send its team to the Asian Games.
If PBA players are not available, why not just send selection of college players which is what the Philippines have been doing before they started sending pros in 1990.
Fiba;
China had to muster all the strength they had to survive Kai Sotto’s monster production and prevail over the Philippines in today’s last Semi-Finals match.
Kai Sotto tallied his second straight outrageous stat-line, putting up 26 points, 21 rebounds and 6 blocked shots, but even that was not enough to upend the hosts, who leaned on their offensive rebounding and the clutch shooting of Sun Haoqin to win the contest and earn their place at tomorrow’s Final.
It was a monster from Sotto but he got a big help from Terrence John Fortea, despite the absence of RC Calimag, who was nursing a sore knee. Fortea contributed 18 points and started the started the Gilas run with his two-consecutive 3-points that cut China’s lead to just 2-points.
Batang Gilas will face New Zealand, to decide who will take the 3rd place.
Here are the highlights of the game;
The scores:
Philippines 54: Sotto 26, Fortea 18, Guadana 4, Cortez 4, Andrada 2, Chiu 0, Padrigao 0, Balaga 0, Bautista 0.
China 60: Sun 22, Saimaiti 10, Aizimaiti 8, Lu 8, Chen 4, Li 3, Qu 3, Yang 2, Jiao 0.
Per Quarter scores: 16-15; 32-29; 48-36; 60-54.
After absorbing a 31-pts loss in the hands of the Australians, Batang Gilas bounce back and defeated Hong Kong in the quarter finals of Fiba Under-16 Asian Championship, in Foshan, China.
The game was actually decided in the first half, where Batang Gilas are enjoying a 25-points lead. You can watch the reply from the video above.
King Balaga lead Batang Gilas is scoring by contributing 12 points, while Kai Sotto grabbed 12 rebounds, 9 of those rebounds are on the defensive end, this is in addition to his 11-points. Rence Keith Sean Padrigao dished 6 assists to help the team.
Batang Gilas next assignment will be Japan this Friday.
From Spin.ph;
The scores:
Philippines 103 – Balaga 12, Calimag 12, Padrigao 11, Sotto 11, Chiu 11, Guadana 10, Bautista 6, Go 6, Lazaro 5, Cortez 3.
Hong Kong 61 – Lung T.K. 18, Cheung M.T. 12, Lam M.K.A. 7, Leung P.T. 6, Siu W.Y. 6, Kwok H. 4, Lo K.H. 4, Siu K.W. 2, Chan T.H. 2, Lee C.K. 0, Chan P.L. 0, Chiu T.H. 0
Quarterscores: 31-18; 59-36; 86-52; 103-61.
FIBA just confirmed it, the second game between Philippines and Japan for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Asian Qualifiers will happen on the 23rd of February at the Mall Of Asia (MOA) Arena.
Gilas Pilipinas won the first game against the pesky Japan, wherein Jayson Castro was the best player with 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1 steal in just 29 minutes.
It has been confirmed that the Mall of Asia Arena will be the venue of the second clash between @officialSBPinc 🇵🇭 and @JAPANBASKETBALL 🇯🇵 at the #FIBAWC Asian Qualifiers. #ThisIsMyHouse
➡️ https://t.co/XdYi5Aefzr pic.twitter.com/lul7x9Jqm6
— FIBA 🏀 World Cup (@FIBAWC) January 10, 2018
Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) plan to use the Philippine Arena, as the third venue for the Asian Qualifiers, where the Gilas Boys will face Australians who currently holds a 2-0 win-loss record.
As always, Google release the “Year in Search 2017” and for the Philippines, these are the top search term for 2017.
Google categorized each search into 10 groups; Overall Searches, News, Female Personalities, Male Personalities, Events, Movies, TV Shows, Songs and Lyrics, Apps and Phones.
Here’s the complete list below;
FIBA announced that FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will be hosted by Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, the first-ever multiple hosts for said contest.
At total of sixteen (16) games will be played among the 32 countries participating in the tournament at the Araneta Coliseum and the Mall of Asia Arena. Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan will be used as the venue for the semifinals and the finals.
Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 🏆 in 2023! #FIBAWC pic.twitter.com/OgteRbCdH8
— FIBA 🏀 World Cup (@FIBAWC) December 9, 2017
Japan and Indonesia will host the other 16 matches.
If not for their great start, the result of the game could have gone the other way.
Most of the heavy lifting were done by Jayson Castro who filed the stat sheet with 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1 steal in just 29 minutes, and Andray Blatche who finished with 13 points, where 6 of those points are from the three-point line, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 3 shot blocks.
Gilas next assignment will be the visiting Chinese Taipei on Monday at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum at 7:00 in the evening.
The scores:
PHILIPPINES 77 – Castro William 20, Blatche 13, Wright 12, Norwood 10, Fajardo 6, Aguilar 5, Abueva 5, Pogoy 5, Ravena 1, Alas 0, Rosario 0
JAPAN 71 – Hiejima 20, Brown 10, Tanaka 10, Togashi 8, Baba 7, Harimoto 7, Shinoyama 4, J. Takeuchi 3, Ota 2, Furukawa 0, Uto 0
Per quarter scores: 1st: 18-10, 2nd:37-28, 3rd: 59-55, 4th: 77-71
