2019-nCoV Archives - Interaksyon

Face masks bouquet

Stopping others from sharing fake news, conspiracy theories on COVID-19 can...

Reuters - February 14, 2020

Beijing residents wearing face masks

‘Postpone Valentine’s Day,’ a Supreme Court justice suggests amid virus scare

Jeline Malasig - February 13, 2020

Filipinos from Wuhan

Explained: Interest in ‘force majeure’ up as novel coronavirus fails to...

Reuters - February 11, 2020

One canceled event after another in Philippines, no thanks to COVID-19...

Jeline Malasig - February 6, 2020

Novel coronavirus in the Philippines

Should we thank China for face mask donation when Filipinos donated...

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 6, 2020

A long queue is formed outside a medical supply store that sells face masks, a day after Philippine government confirmed first novel coronavirus case, in Manila, Philippines

What we don’t know about the novel coronavirus situation in the...

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 6, 2020

High demand for surgical masks in Manila

For ‘praning’ or protection? Not everyone should wear medical face masks

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 6, 2020

copypasta phenomenon

Trolling the trolls: Filipinos put own twist to dubious ‘copy-paste stories’

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 5, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow

Days after confirmed nCoV cases, Duterte spoke about the alarm and...

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 4, 2020

The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph

How local Twitter helped fight online disinformation amid the new coronavirus...

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - February 4, 2020

Filipinos with masks

Guns against viruses: Martial law suggested to combat nCoV

Jeline Malasig - February 3, 2020

San Lazaro Hospital

A look at San Lazaro Hospital, site of the first 2019...

Jeline Malasig - January 31, 2020

Chinese workers wearing masks are pictured after Philippine government confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in the country, in an office building in Makati City, Metro Manila

Duterte is banning travelers from Hubei but province already on lockdown

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - January 31, 2020

Franciso Duque

DOH opted to convene one day after first confirmed novel coronavirus...

Jeline Malasig - January 31, 2020

A China Southern Airlines employee wears a surgical mask as a preventive measure in light of the coronavirus outbreak in China, while he attends a customer behind the counter at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City

China’s Hubei province, center of virus outbreak, confirms 25 new deaths

Reuters - January 29, 2020

Bureau of Immigration

Bureau of Immigration halts visas on arrival for Chinese on virus...

Reuters - January 28, 2020

A worker in protective suit looks at a man while he enters the Xizhimen subway station, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing

A collection of false rumors about coronavirus in the Philippines

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - January 27, 2020

Bureau of Immigration

Philippine government’s order to deport travelers from Wuhan: Was it too...

Jeline Malasig - January 24, 2020

Medical staff carry a box as they walk at the Jinyintan hospital, where the patients with pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus are being treated, in Wuhan

Pinoys, don’t panic! Coronavirus is a common term for a variety...

Catalina Ricci S. Madarang - January 22, 2020