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(Eagle News) — The number of areas under a granular lockdown in the Philippines has increased to 844. According to the Philippine National Police, as of Wednesday, of the 844, 233 were in the National Capital Region (NCR), 210 in Cordillera, 203 in Cagayan, 165 in Ilocos, 18 in Mimaropa, and 15 in Western Visayas. The PNP said 2,083 people have been affected by the granular lockdowns. The Department of Health has said there was […]
by Femke COLBORNE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight. The report by law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl (WSW) will analyse how abuse cases were dealt with in the archdiocese of Munich and Freising between 1945 and 2019. The Munich archdiocese, which […]
Rest of Luzon affected by northeast monsoon (Eagle News) — The shear line is affecting the eastern section of Southern Luzon. Northeast Monsoon affecting the rest of Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the northeast monsoon is also affecting the rest of Luzon. PAGASA said Bicol Region, Quezon, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, and Samar, as a result, will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s government approved new coronavirus restrictions on a large part of the country, including Tokyo, on Wednesday as it battles record infections fuelled by the Omicron variant. The restrictions in 13 regions, which mainly target nightlife and are far less strict than a blanket lockdown, will be in place from Friday until mid-February. The move allows each region to decide what specific measures to implement, with most places urging bars and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — During America’s last surge of the coronavirus driven by the Delta variant, people who were unvaccinated but survived Covid were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not previously infected, a new study said Wednesday. The finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative strengths of natural versus vaccine-acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2, but comes this time with the imprimatur of the US Centers for […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he did not anticipate the level of obstruction he has encountered from Republicans in Congress. “I didn’t overpromise,” Biden said at a press conference held to make his first year in the White House. “I did not anticipate that there’d be such a stalwart effort (by Republicans) to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn’t get anything done,” […]
(Eagle News) — No Filipino has so far been reported injured or killed in Tonga or Samoa after an underwater volcanic eruption that caused a tsunami in Tonga and prompted evacuation orders across the Pacific. The Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, Jan. 19, this was based on an email from the Association of Filipinos in Tonga, Inc. that noted that all Filipinos had been accounted for. The DFA said the Philippine Embassy in […]
New Omicron cases detected in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao; more local and ROF cases recorded (Eagle News) – The Philippines’ total Omicron variant cases reached 535 after the addition of 492 new Omicron cases with addresses spread country-wide, from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, based on the latest genome sequencing of the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center. The latest data also showed an increased number of new local cases, at 332, as well as […]
New COVID-19 cases reach 22,958, much lower than previous day’s 28,471 (Eagle News) — For the second straight day, new COVID-19 recoveries exceeded the number of new virus cases on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. New recoveries reached 36,611 while new cases were only 22,958. The new recoveries on Wednesday, January 19, were even higher compared to Tuesday’s (Jan. 18) number of 34,892. The new cases today were also lower than the previous day’s record […]
by Laure FILLON / Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Expanding nature preserves will not be enough to stem a rising tide of extinctions, a panel of experts warned Wednesday, taking aim at a draft treaty tasked with rescuing Earth’s animal and plant life. Setting aside at least 30 percent of both land and oceans as protected zones is the cornerstone target of the so-called global biodiversity framework to be finalised in May at […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan said Wednesday its deputy leader will go to the inauguration of Honduran president-elect Xiomara Castro as the island faces the potential loss of yet another diplomatic ally in Latin America. Castro said during campaigning that she would “immediately open diplomatic and commercial relations with mainland China” if she won. Last month, neighbouring Nicaragua switched its allegiance to Beijing, leaving Honduras as one of just 14 countries that still diplomatically recognize […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Six Indonesian women drowned off Malaysia after their boat capsized during a suspected attempt to enter the country illegally, officials said, in the latest migrant tragedy in the area. Their bodies were found Tuesday afternoon after the boat carrying 13 undocumented Indonesians coming from the archipelago’s Batam island ran into trouble off Malaysia’s southern Johor state. Senior coastguard official Nurul Hizam Zakaria said in a Tuesday statement that fishermen reported […]
