News Roundup 05 July 2021
Jul 05, 2021 • 4 min Read
DOH logs 5,392 new COVID-19 cases, total at 1.44 million | PHILSTAR.COM – The Department of Health on Monday said 5,392 more individuals contracted the COVID-19, bringing the country’s total count to 1,441,746. Today’s numbers saw active cases down by 1,114 from July 4’s 52,708. Authorities said 10 laboratories did not submit screening results.
- Active cases: 51,594 or 3.6% of the total
- Recoveries: 6,477, bringing the number to 1,364,960
- Deaths: 43, or now 25,192 in total
Crashed military plane tried to land with incomplete set of wheels — witness | PHILSTAR.COM – A Tausug woman said Monday she saw only one set of the side wheels of the C-130 military plane protruding while descending on the airport before it crashed Sunday in Sulu province. Alicia Jamdan, residing in Barangay Bangcal in Patikul, near the spot where the Hercules C-130 plane full of soldiers fell and burst into flames, told Catholic Station dxOM via a phone-patched interview she is certain the large Hercules C-130 aircraft crashed due to a mechanical problem. “We could see from our village planes landing and taking off from the nearby Jolo airport. It was my first time to see a plane landing with an incomplete set of wheels coming out while going down on the runway,” Jandan told Catholic Station dxOM on Monday morning. The accident caused the deaths of at least 50 soldiers, including the plane’s eight-member crew led by pilots Major Emmanuel Makalintal, Major Michael Vincent Benolerao and 1Lt. Karl Joseph Hintay. Their subordinates, Air Force Sergeants Donald Badoy, Jan Neil Macapaz, Michael Bulalaque, Jack Navarro and Airman 1st Class Fortunato Regidor and a military nurse, 1Lt Sheena Alexandrae Tato, also died in the crash.
Trillanes: Documents show Duterte, Go liable for P6.6-B plunder | INQUIRER.NET – Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV has accused President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Bong Go of alleged plunder involving P6.6-billion in government projects, the majority of which have been completed in the Duterte administration’s first two years. Trillanes, in a YouTube video posted Monday, claimed that Go’s family won government projects worth as much as P6.6 billion under Duterte— P1.5 billion when the Chief Executive was still Davao City mayor and P5.1 billion on the first two years of Duterte’s presidency. But Malacañang dared the former senator to bring in court a case against the President and Go over the public works contract in Davao.
Robredo says ‘no infighting’ in LP; party recruits non-politicians | Manila Bulletin – Vice President Leni Robredo assured that there is no infighting in the opposition Liberal Party and that they are, in fact, recruiting non-politicians to push for their advocacies. “Kakaunti kami. Kung mag-aaway kami, ewan ko na lang. Okay kami, alam mo naman na after 2016 talagang halos na-decimate iyong Liberal (There’s very few of us. If we are going to fight, I just don’t know with us. We’re okay, you know after the 2016 elections, the Liberal got decimated),” she said on her weekly radio show with radioman Ely Saludar. Aside from Robredo, only a handful of elected politicians stayed with the Liberal Party after the 2016 national polls. The vice president said they understand that some of their members have jumped ship to the ruling political party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), so their constituents won’t suffer. Other members also joined other political parties. But the good thing about the Liberal Party is they started recruiting non-politicians. “So marami kaming galaw na hindi konektado sa eleksyon, mas konektado siya sa mga paniniwala (So we’re doing many things that are not connected to the elections, they are more connected to our beliefs).” “Maganda siya kasi ang napapag-usapan hindi eleksyon pero ang napapag-usapan iyong mga paniniwala at saka ano iyong gagawin para isulong iyong mga paniniwala (It’s good because what we’re talking about is not the elections, but we’re talking about what we believe in and what we can do to push for these beliefs),” Robredo said. The vice president is not worried, though, that LP has less clout than the other political parties. She said the same thing happened before the late former President Benigno Aquino III became president. The sad thing about Philippine politics, she said, is the fact that if you’re not from the ruling party, you and your constituents will suffer. “So para sa akin, Ka Ely, dapat baguhin natin iyon. Dapat iyong pagsasali sa partido, para sa paniniwala talaga, eh. Hindi iyong expediency, hindi iyong convenience (So for me, Ka Ely, we should change that. Joining a party should be about your beliefs. It shouldn’t about expediency, not about convenience),” Robredo added. The Liberal Party has yet to announce who it will field for the presidency next year, though it is widely believed they are waiting for the decision of Robredo.
