News Roundup 10 July 2021
Jul 10, 2021 • 3 min Read
5,675 new coronavirus infections push Philippines caseload to 1.46M | PHILSTAR.COM – Local health authorities on Saturday reported 5,675 more COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,467,119.
- Active cases: 49,968 or 3.4% of the total
- Recoveries: 7,552, pushing total to 1,391,335
- Deaths: 96, bringing total to 25,816
Workers call to vote out 70 lawmakers behind killing of ABS-CBN franchise | PHILSTAR.COM – A year after a House committee rejected ABS-CBN’s application for a fresh franchise and under a year before the elections, workers are calling on the public to vote out the 70 lawmakers who voted to kill the network’s application. “Next year, eleksyon, tingin ko ay may paniningil ang manggagawa sa gobyernong ito. (Next year it’s the elections, I think the workers will make this government pay),” Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino president Leody de Guzman said Friday during an online forum hosted by the ABS-CBN chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Christian Lloyd Magsoy, Defend Jobs Philippines spokesperson, echoed this, urging the public not to forget the lawmakers who voted to reject ABS-CBN’s franchise application. “Maari tayong maningil sa kanilang ginawa dito sa mga kababayan natin, mga kapwa nating manggagawa. Huwag natin kalimutan ang hindi nila pagdinig sa hinaing sa mga manggagawa apektado nitong ABS-CBN shutdown,” Magsoy said. (We can make them pay for what they did to our countrymen, our fellow workers. Let’s not forget how they did not listen to the appeals of the workers affected by the ABS-CBN shutdown.)
Co-pilot of ill-fated C-130 gave up dream to be a doctor to enter PMA | INQUIRER.NET – The co-pilot of the ill-fated Philippine Air Force C-130 aircraft that crashed in Patikul, Sulu on July 4 gave up his dream to be a doctor to enter the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). First Lieutenant Karl Joseph Hintay, of PMA Class 2017, was a BS Biology student at the University of the Philippines-Mindanao in 2012 when half way through the second semester, he took both entrance exams of the PMA and the Philippine National Police Academy. He passed both and chose to enter the PMA. He was 17, then. Last Sunday, July 4, he co-piloted the C-130 aircraft that left Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental to bring soldiers to Jolo, Sulu. The aircraft overshot the runway and crashed in Sitio Amman, Barangay Bangkal in Patikul, Sulu. Hintay’s body was recovered from the crash site. He was 25. Dr. Daisy Diwara Hintay, the co-plilot’s mother, and Katherine Diwara Hintay, his sister, said they only confirmed his death at 9 a.m. on July 5, when she got a call from a certain Lt. Peñaflor of the Air Force’s 220th AirLift Wing, the unit based in the Benito Ebuen Air Base in Mactan, Cebu where Hintay is based. “We last saw him in January this year,” Katherine recalled.
Marine killed in 2017 Marawi siege gets Valor award | Manila Bulletin – A Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) personnel who was killed in the 2017 Marawi City siege while saving his comrades has been awarded with the highest military merit for his acts of heroism. In a statement Saturday, July 10, the PMC said that President Duterte recently awarded the Medal of Valor (Medalya ng Kagitingan) to Corporal Gener Tinangag. His rank was elevated a step higher from Private First Class after getting the post-humous award. The Valor award is the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) highest military honor “awarded for a conspicuous deed of personal bravery or self-sacrifice above and beyond the call of duty that distinguises the recipient from his comrades.” Tinangag was bestowed with the award by virtue of General Order No. 813, issued by the AFP General Headquarters last May 31 but was only made known publicly on Saturday, after saving four wounded Marines on his own and extricating the body of a slain comrade during the Marawi siege.
