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PHL records 17,677 new Covid cases, 37.2 percent positivity rate, the lowest since Jan. 6

January 25, 2022
Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 set to start on Feb. 4, says vaccine czar Galvez

January 25, 2022
World can end Covid emergency this year: WHO chief

January 24, 2022
PHL posts 24,938 new Covid cases, third straight day of decreasing new cases

January 24, 2022
Europe could be headed for pandemic ‘endgame’: WHO

January 24, 2022

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PHL records 17,677 new Covid cases, 37.2 percent positivity rate, the lowest since Jan. 6

January 25, 2022

New recoveries at 33,144 bringing down total active cases to 247,451 (Eagle News) – The number of new Covid-19 cases continued to drop as the Department of Health posted 17,677 new cases on Tuesday, January 25. This is the fourth straight day that new virus cases are on the down trend, and the lowest single-day report of new virus cases in 19 days. The last time that the number was lower than this was on […]

Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 set to start on Feb. 4, says vaccine czar Galvez

January 25, 2022

Plan is to have two sites per city in NCR, initially, and then expanded nationwide in pilot sites (Eagle News) – Starting February, the Philippine government will begin administering COVID-19 jabs to children aged five to 11 years as the specially formulated vaccines for this age group is set to arrive next week. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., said that the pediatric vaccination could start on Feb. 4. He said that the National […]

PHL posts 24,938 new Covid cases, third straight day of decreasing new cases

January 24, 2022

(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 24,938 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, January 24, the third straight day that the country posted decreasing new virus cases. On Sunday, January 23, new virus cases hit 29,828. On Saturday, January 22, new cases were 30,552, which were less than Friday’s (January 21) 32,744 new cases. There were also more Covid-19 new recoveries than new cases on Monday. New recoveries hit 35,461; this is […]

Parents urged to limit exposure of minors outdoors even in areas under alert level 2, 3

January 24, 2022

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has urged parents to limit the exposure of minors outdoors even if they are already allowed to go outside in areas under alert level 2 and 3. The PNP issued the reminder following the Department of Health’s statement that many COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated. According to the PNP, while pediatric inoculation was ongoing in the country, a large number was still awaiting their turn to get inoculated. “We […]

International

‘Nightmare’: Workers, students decry Japan virus entry ban

January 25, 2022

by Etienne Balmer and Katie Forster TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Yanita Antoko has been waiting for over a year in Indonesia to join her husband in Japan. She has her papers and has closed her business selling homemade spice mixes, but remains shut out. The 30-year-old is one of more than 370,000 people left in limbo by Japan’s coronavirus border rules, which bar almost all new arrivals and are the strictest in the G7. Even […]

At least 18 dead after clash, fire at club in Indonesia’s West Papua

January 25, 2022

SORONG, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 18 people were killed during clashes between two groups at a night club in the town of Sorong in Indonesia’s West Papua province, police said Tuesday, with most dying after the venue caught fire. “The clash broke out last night (Monday) at 11 pm. It was a prolonged conflict from a clash on Saturday,” Sorong police chief Ary Nyoto Setiawan said in a statement. One victim was stabbed and […]

North Korea appears to have fired cruise missiles, Seoul says

January 25, 2022

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea appeared to have fired two cruise missiles Tuesday morning, South Korea’s military said, in what would be the nuclear-armed country’s fifth weapons test this month. Pyongyang has rebuffed US offers of talks and embarked on a flurry of sanctions-busting tests in 2022, flexing its military muscles and ramping up the rhetoric against Washington. “North Korea fired two suspected cruise missiles,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said […]

German student kills one, wounds three in campus shooting

January 25, 2022

by Sebastien ASH with Michelle FITZPATRICK in Frankfurt HEIDELBERG, Germany (AFP) — An 18-year-old student opened fire in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Monday, killing a young woman and injuring three others before fleeing the scene and turning the weapon on himself. The gunman fired shots “wildly” around the amphitheatre, a police spokesman told AFP. The shooting took place during an organic chemistry class for bioscience students, a course the […]

Headlines

PHL records 17,677 new Covid cases, 37.2 percent positivity rate, the lowest since Jan. 6

Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 set to start on Feb. 4, says vaccine czar Galvez

World can end Covid emergency this year: WHO chief

PHL posts 24,938 new Covid cases, third straight day of decreasing new cases

Europe could be headed for pandemic ‘endgame’: WHO

International

‘Nightmare’: Workers, students decry Japan virus entry ban

At least 18 dead after clash, fire at club in Indonesia’s West Papua

Life

Virtuoso keeps Afghan music alive despite Taliban ban

Covid outbreak on ship threatens Tonga aid efforts

National

PHL records 17,677 new Covid cases, 37.2 percent positivity rate, the lowest since Jan. 6

Vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 set to start on Feb. 4, says vaccine czar Galvez

PHL posts 24,938 new Covid cases, third straight day of decreasing new cases

Parents urged to limit exposure of minors outdoors even in areas under alert level 2, 3

Metro

146 immigration personnel assigned to NAIA, Clark airport tested positive for COVID-19: Immigration bureau

PNP COVID-19 cases breach 47,000 mark

Provincial News

4.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Davao Occidental early Tuesday

4.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Davao Occidental

International

‘Nightmare’: Workers, students decry Japan virus entry ban

At least 18 dead after clash, fire at club in Indonesia’s West Papua

North Korea appears to have fired cruise missiles, Seoul says

German student kills one, wounds three in campus shooting

Health

Covid outbreak on ship threatens Tonga aid efforts

Omicron ‘sub-variant’ throws up new virus questions

Environment

Climate change: Biden’s next big political gamble?

Volkswagen hits 2021 EU emissions target after 2020 miss

News in Photos

Typhoon Odette also leaves trail of destruction in Cebu

Scenes of destruction in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental in the aftermath of supertyphoon Odette

In photos: Concrete road in Surigao del Norte breaks into pieces as Typhoon Odette hits province

Donaire defends WBC title with body shot KO of Gaballo

PHL bet Beatrice Gomez makes it to top five, but fails to advance to top 3 of Miss Universe pageant