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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Thursday as the remnants of storm Ida caused massive flooding in New York City and across the northeastern United States. “I am declaring a state of emergency to help New Yorkers affected by tonight’s storm,” Hochul tweeted, after Ida, which slammed into the southern United States as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday, caused tornadoes and flooding as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A student was shot and killed Wednesday at a high school in North Carolina, authorities in the southern US state said. Police dispatched to Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem found one student who had been shot. The student was transported to a local hospital, where he “succumbed to his injuries,” police department chief Catrina Thompson said during a press conference. The shooting suspect, believed to be another student […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan received its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines on Thursday, a delivery organized by two tech giants and a charity because of diplomatic pressure from China. The 930,000 doses are the first of 15 million jabs acquired by Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), as well as Buddhist charity Tzu Chi foundation, in deals with a China-based distributor after months of wrangling. Despite donations of several million doses from […]
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel reopened its schools Wednesday after the summer break but the coronavirus forced many students to stay home amid an infection surge fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant. Of the 2.4 million children due to attend educational institutions from kindergarten to high school, 250,000 were kept home on the first day of school, said the education ministry. Some 90,000 of them were infected with Covid or in quarantine, a ministry spokeswoman […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Hours of heavy rains triggered flooding in eastern Spain on Wednesday with some coastal areas overwhelmed by flash floods that washed away cars and trees. One of the worst-hit areas was Alcanar, a town 200 kilometers (160 miles) south of Barcelona, where huge torrents of fast-moving water surged through the streets, sweeping away everything in its path. Two major roads in the area were cut off and the local train service […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lankan government officials on Wednesday raided private warehouses to seize thousands of tonnes of sugar, a day after a state of emergency was declared over food shortages caused by a currency crisis. A military officer put in charge of efforts to bolster food stocks said at least 13,000 tonnes of white and brown sugar were found in the raids. “The objective is to prevent hoarding,” Major General Senarath Niwunhella, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Moderna said Wednesday that tainted batches of its Covid-19 vaccine sent to Japan were contaminated with stainless steel particles, but the company did not expect it posed “an undue risk to patient safety.” The US biotech firm is facing major setbacks in Japan, with hundreds of thousands of doses suspended following reports of foreign substances detected in vials. Authorities are also investigating the deaths of two men who received doses […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China’s Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would become the Middle East and Africa’s “biggest vaccine producer”. Under the deal with the Chinese pharmaceutical company, a factory in Cairo will produce more than 200 million doses per year to cover “national needs”, Health Minister Hala Zayed told a press conference. A second factory will produce three million doses per day, […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — One of the global frontrunners in vaccination against the coronavirus, Spain on Wednesday it had fully vaccinated just over 70 percent of its 47 million residents. According to the latest figures released by the Spanish health ministry, some 33,376,693 people have been completely vaccinated, or 70.3 percent of the population. “70 percent of Spain’s population is now fully vaccinated,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted as the figures were released, thanking the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Moderna on Wednesday announced it had begun submitting an application to the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize a booster of its Covid vaccine after trial data showed a significant increase in antibodies against variants. The third shot of the vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, was given to 344 participants in a study six months after their second dose. The first two doses were 100 micrograms, while the booster was […]
by Alfred Acenas (EBC Hawaii-Pacific) HONOLULU (Eagle News) – Starting on September 13, customers on Oahu Island will need to show proof of either a full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, museums, arcades, and other similar establishments. According to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, the Safe Access Oahu program was developed in collaboration with business and restaurant leaders as part of a collective effort to aggressively counteract […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the US Gulf Coast at the weekend, could become the costliest weather disaster on record, the UN said Wednesday, hailing though that prevention measures had dramatically limited casualties. Louisiana and Mississippi are still taking stock of the disaster inflicted by the powerful Category 4 storm that hit exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall and devastated the area. Ida is known to have killed […]
