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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA EDITION
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Vol. 60 No. 34 April 1-7, 2021
NEWS AND VIEWS YOU TRUST
BIDEN STEPS UP DRIVE TO HALT HATE CRIMES
PHL condemns attack on FilAm in New York South San Francisco center to enshrine Alice Bulos By ALFRED GABOT By Cherie M. Querol Moreno
and CLAIRE MORALES TRUE Editor in Chief and Managing Editor
Alice Bulos received a posthumous birthday gift from the city where she lived from 1980 WASHINGTON/MANILA until she died in 2016. She – The Biden administration would have turned 91 yesterday. has announced new actions, The City Council of South including additional $49.5 San Francisco at their last meeting on Women’s History Month million from COVID-19 reMarch 24 voted unanimously lief funds to curb the alarmto rename Westborough Recreing rise in violence and disation Center after Bulos, who dedicated herself to empowercrimination against Asian ing Filipino Americans through Americans and Pacific Iscommunity engagement. landers (AAPI) during the What will be known henceSTOP ASIAN HATE. People a�end a rally against racism and violence on Covid-19 pandemic. Page 9 Asian Americans in Flushing of New York, the United States on March 27. forth as Alice Peña Bulos Recreation Center is a facility on (Xinhua/Wang Ying) Galway Drive here, a few steps west of Liberty Court, the street where Bulos lived and held court as “Godmother of Filipino American Empowerment.” Her house on 2444 Liberty Court By Be�ng Laygo Dolor, Editor was open for meetings to stratMANILA – The one-week showed a two-week lockdown egize social and political activilockdown covering all of Metro would yield better results than Manila plus four provinces may the one-week lockdown now in MANILA – President Rodribe extended for another week effect. at least, with more areas to be De Guzman, head of the go Duterte has adopted tougher SACRAMENTO – California added, based on recommenda- DOH’s epidemiology bureau, measures like placing the counhas 3,566,464 confirmed cases, actry under the stricter modifi ed tions from health officials. said a two-week lockdown was cording to the California Departgeneral community quarantine Malacanang said on Tues- necessary in order “to see the ment of Public Health (CDPH), (MGCQ) for the whole month day, March 30, that it would continuous decline in cases.” with 57,778 COVID-19 deaths of April as cases of COVID-19 consider the proposal after the Otherwise, she said, the since the start of the pandemic. broke high records of 9,000 to Department of Health’s Alethea number of new cases could rise There have been 53,684,932 10,000 cases each day in March de Guzman projected various again after the current locktests conducted in California repPage 8 scenarios during a briefing that down ends on Easter Page 8 crowding many hos-
Lockdown may be extended, expanded
PHL gets ‘tougher’ measures as virus cases break record
Alice Bulos inspired new genera�ons of leaders to serve the community. PHOTO BY VOLTAIRE YAP ties, especially on March 31, her birthday. The honor is the first bestowed on a FilAm by the city of about 68,000 predominantly Asian residents. SSF has 2 two FilAm leaders, Mark Page 11
California COVID cases hits 3.5 M, LA moves to less restrictive tier resenting an increase of 174,999 during the prior 24-hour reporting period. As of March 29, providers have reported administering a total of 17,356,911 vaccine doses statewide. The CDC reports that 21,147,010 doses Page 9
PHL welcomes US backing in sea row
Drilon: Robredo qualified for president VIEWS & COMMENTS
SHOWBIZ
SPORTS
‘New president, new era’
Original Pinoy music icon Claire dela Fuente passes away
Bangko Sentral hikes inflation projection
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