Global population hit by extreme drought set to double
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Available freshwater is on track to decline sharply across…
5 years ago
China places 5 million more under lockdown to stamp out virus cluster
BEIJING, China (AFP) -- Chinese authorities sealed off a city of almost five million people and imposed strict travel restrictions…
5 years ago
DOH, PGC say UK and South African COVID-19 variants not yet detected in PHL
https://youtu.be/-BholJnjOWg (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Genome Center stressed that they have not detected…
5 years ago
MRT-3 to soft-launch contact tracing app on January 18
(Eagle News) -- The Metro Rail Transit-3 will soft-launch an app to facilitate contact tracing among commuters on January 18.…
5 years ago
Several current, former PhilHealth officials face raps over “fraudulent claims” in Region 1 office
(Eagle News) -- Task Force PhilHealth has endorsed a Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission report recommending the filing of charges against several…
5 years ago
240 more private firms join part 2 of tripartite deal with PHL gov’t and AstraZeneca
Total of 6 million vaccine doses from AstraZeneca assured https://youtu.be/O3nI8NEWq4M (Eagle News) – The number of private companies which…
5 years ago
Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine 78% effective in final stage clinical trials in Brazil, says officials
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) -- Chinese-developed Covid-19 vaccine CoronaVac showed at least 78-percent effectiveness in final-stage clinical trials in…
5 years ago
PHL COVID-19 cases reach 491,258; 44 more recover
(Eagle News) --COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 491,000 mark on Tuesday, January 12, after the Department of Health…
5 years ago
Indonesian divers hunt for crashed plane’s black boxes
by Dessy SAGITA Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off…
5 years ago
Crew on crashed Indonesian passenger jet did not declare emergency
by Haeril HALIM Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- The crew of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed…
5 years ago