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post Aug 3 2020, 05:17 PM, updated 4y ago

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Philippines: Covid-19 cases exceed 100,000; earthquake measuring 6.4 strikes Mindanao

MANILA, Aug 2 (Reuters): The Philippines on Sunday reported 5,032 additional coronavirus infections, its largest single-day increase on record, taking the country's confirmed cases to 103,185.

It has the second-highest number of coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in the region, behind Indonesia.

In a bulletin, the Department of Health also said the South-East Asian country's coronavirus death toll had jumped by 20 to 2,059.

The Philippines' health department vowed on Sunday to update its game plan against Covid-19 within a week and sought to beef up the healthcare workforce in the capital Manila, where medical frontliners are calling for reviving strict lockdowns.

President Rodrigo Duterte was scheduled to meet key cabinet members on Sunday to discuss a call by medical frontliners' groups to put the capital Manila, which accounts for the bulk of infections, back under a stricter lockdown, his spokesman said.

Earlier in the day, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck Mindanao, philippines, at a depth of 473 kilometres (293.91 miles) on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

An initial report, later revised, said the magnitude of the quake was 6.3. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.

The pPhilippines' volcanology agency said it was expecting damage and aftershocks, but there was no tsunami threat due to the nature of the tectonic, nearshore quake.

"No destructive tsunami threat exists based on available data," the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported.

The southern coastal province of Sarangani registered intensity two while cities in South Cotabato recorded intensity one, the agency said.

The region is home to 1.2 million people, or around 1% of the Philippine population, according to data from the statistics agency.

The Philippines has frequent seismic activity due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire". - Reuters


 

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