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Philippines confirms 4,899 new COVID-19 cases; tally now at 621,498
The Department of Health also reported 13,371 new recoveries pushing the total number of Filipinos who recovered from the disease to 560,512.
This means that the country has a total of 48,157 active cases as of 4 p.m. Sunday.
Sixty three more deaths were reported from the illness, bringing COVID-19’s death toll in the Philippines to 12,829.
As the country prepares to mark the first anniversary of the world’s longest and most stringent pandemic lockdowns, cases continue to surge, prompting local government units in Metro Manila to reimpose a curfew across the capital.
Targeted lockdowns in Metro Manila as coronavirus cases surge.
The OCTA Research Group said on Sunday that the Philippines might record up to 8,000 daily new COVID-19 cases by the end of the month, and 18,000 to 20,000 by mid-April if the current reproduction rate does not change.
A member of the University of the Philippines Pandemic Response Team said the recent spike in the Philippines' COVID-19 cases can be considered as a second wave.
An official of the World Health Organization however earlier said that the recent spike in cases cannot be considered a second wave because the first wave has yet to be flattened.
The pandemic has already caused the Philippines to plunge into its worst economic contraction since World War 2.
Several new variants of the virus causing disease have developed, which researchers say may be more contagious than the original variant. The variants from South Africa, the UK and Brazil have concerned experts who believe that they are either more contagious or more resistant to vaccines. A new variant has also been detected in the Philippines.
The country’s first COVID-19 case was a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, China.
The first COVID-19 death outside of China, was also recorded in the Philippines last year.
Worldwide, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 119.5 million people and caused over 2.64 million deaths since it was first reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019 according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
The United States remains the most badly affected country with over 29.4 million infections and over 534,000 deaths.
Brazil ranks second with 11.44 million infections and over 277,000 COVID-19 fatalities. In terms of number of infections, India is third with 11.36 million confirmed cases. In terms of deaths meanwhile, Mexico’s COVID-19 fatalities surged in the previous week and now ranks third with over 194,000 deaths.
Pope Francis leads mass for Philippines' celebration of 500 years of Christianity
MANILA (UPDATE) - Pope Francis on Sunday led a Mass celebrating 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
-Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the pope's vicar for Rome, were among the limited number of people allowed to attend the Mass in person at the basilica due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Fr. Greg Gaston, rector of the Pontificio Collegio Filipino, earlier told ABS-CBN News that the Mass is Pope Francis' "gesture of his closeness to us Filipinos," having "shown his deep appreciation for our life of faith" when he visited the Philippines in 2015 and when he celebrated the Simbang Gabi Mass at St. Peter's in 2019.
The Pope is expected to lead the traditional recitation of the Angelus prayer at St. Peter's Square following the mass.
The pre-dominantly Catholic nation will launch the yearlong commemoration of the arrival of Christianity in the country on April 4, Easter Sunday.
“Binigyan tayo ng biyaya ng Panginoon, nagkaroon tayo ng pananampalataya. But we are also called, we are also responsible to share this faith with others. Kaya nga if we received that faith 500 years ago, dapat din natin ipamigay din ito, ipamahagi din sa iba,” Msgr. Bernard Pantin, Secretary General of the CBCP, had said.
(We were blessed by the Lord with this faith. But we are also called, we are also responsible to share this faith with others. That's why, if we received that faith 500 years ago, we should also pass it on and share it with others.)
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, meanwhile, is leading the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines, with the theme, "Gifted to Give."
Its logo features the cross, an image of the first baptism, fish to symbolize Christ, beads of the Holy Rosary, the hovering color of blue for the Holy Spirit, and bold, accented brown lines to symbolize the hand of God.
On March 31, the first Easter Sunday mass in Limasawa town in the Diocese of Maasin in Southern, Leyte, will be commemorated with the Papal Nuncio as guest of honor.
The first baptism in Cebu will be commemorated on April 14, and the victory in Mactan on April 27.
Historian and renowned Magellan scholar Danilo Gerona underscored the importance of these events in shaping the course of history.
“This is a big event for the Philippines, big event because it is the turning point of Philippine history with the coming of Spain, whether Spain gave us trouble, it gave us a lot of pain, as some people complained. But then, we cannot deny that it gave a certain culture which paved the way to what we are today, a religion,” Gerona told ABS-CBN.
The government-led celebrations adopted the theme “Victory and Humanity” with the logo of the National Quincentennial Committee featuring the cross to symbolize Christianity, waves for the circumnavigation, and an image of Lapu-Lapu.
President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to lead the unveiling of a historical marker in Guiuan town, the first of more than 30, that signifies places linked to the Magellan-Elcano expedition, according to the National Historical Commission.
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Duterte in 2019 rebuked the need to celebrate the 500th year since the arrival of Spanish colonizers in the Philippines, who brought Christianity to the country, saying the foreign landing in Cebu heralded centuries of abuse against Filipinos.
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan had claimed the islands, named after King Philip II, for Spain in 1521 on a voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
Spanish rulers and friars entrenched Catholicism, over what had been mainly polytheist, animist and Muslim populations during nearly 400 years of colonial rule that ended when the Americans wrested control in 1898.