News Roundup 21 February 2020
Feb 21, 2020 • 2 min Read
35 more patients checked for COVID-19 discharged from hospitals | INQUIER.NET – Thirty-five more persons under investigation (PUI) for the deadly virus COVID-19 were discharged from hospitals, making the total number of patients out of the hospitals to 455, the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday. According to the PUI tracker of DOH website, there are still 139 patients checked for COVID-19 who are still admitted to their respective hospitals for monitoring.
DOJ indicts Garin, 9 others on reckless imprudence resulting to homicide over Dengvaxia | PHILSTAR.COM – The Department of Justice charged Rep. Janette Garin (Iloilo, 1st District) and nine others on reckless imprudence resulting to homicide over the controversial anti-Dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. In a press release Friday, DOJ said that state prosecutors found probable cause to indict Garin, former Health secretary, and officials of Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Sanofi Pasteur Inc. for reckless imprudence resulting to homicide.
Pangilinan: Senate hearing on ABS-CBN franchise neither unconstitutional nor illegal | Manila Bulletin – The public hearing scheduled by the Senate public services committee even without a House of Representatives committee report on the proposed renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise is constitutional and legal, Sen. Francis Pangilinan said. The opposition senator, a lawyer, advanced this legal opinion to rebut statements that the Senate would be violating a constitutional provision that money and franchise bills should emanate from the Lower House before they are acted upon by the Upper House.
CCTVs can’t identify BuCor exec’s killers | The Manila Times – Surveillance cameras near where a Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officer was gunned down on Wednesday were defective, making it difficult to identify his killers, police said on Thursday. Fredric Anthony Santos, BuCor legal division chief, was fatally shot at close range inside his car by at least two men as he waited for his daughter to come out of the Southernside Montessori School in Muntinlupa City.
