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Vaccination of boosters in pharmacies, clinics to start; pilot week begins on Jan. 20 in 7 sites in NCR – Palace

  (Eagle News) – Five pharmacies and two private clinics in Metro Manila will participate in the pilot implementation of “Resbakuna sa Botika” drive which tapped pharmacies and private clinics to administer COVID-19 vaccines, particularly booster shots, Malacanang said. Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that this intensified vaccination drive involving pharmacies will start on Thursday, January 20, and will last for a week. The pilot implementation is the […]

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Baby dead from Covid-19 in Qatar: ministry

DOHA, Qatarr (AFP) — A three-week-old baby has died from Covid-19 in Qatar, the health ministry said on Sunday, reporting a rare child fatality from the illness in the Gulf country. “A three-week-old baby has sadly died as a result of severe infection from Covid-19,” the emirate’s public health ministry said in a statement. “The baby had no other known medical or hereditary conditions”, and was the second child to have died in the country […]

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Covid pandemic ‘nowhere near over’: WHO chief

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the fast-spreading Omicron variant is risk-free. “This pandemic is nowhere near over,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from WHO’s headquarters in Geneva. Tedros warned against dismissing as mild the coronavirus variant Omicron, which has spread like wildfire around the globe since it was first detected in southern Africa in November. The Omicron […]

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PHL posts 28,471 new cases, 34,892 new recoveries – first time this year that new recoveries exceeded new cases

Number of new cases is also below 30k for the first time in almost a week   (Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 recoveries on Tuesday, January 18, reached 34,892, the first time that the new recoveries were higher than new COVID-19 cases this year. The new COVID-19 cases were 28,471, the first time in almost a week that new COVID-19 cases were not above 30,000. The last time that new COVID-19 cases were […]

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Toyota yearly production target hit by chip shortage

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – The world’s top-selling carmaker Toyota said Tuesday it no longer expects to meet its annual production target with operations hampered by the global chip crunch. A worldwide shortage of microchips — essential components of modern cars — has forced many automakers including Toyota to slow or temporarily halt production. In September, the Japanese giant lowered the number of vehicles it hopes to make in the year to March 2022 to nine […]

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Rescue workers search for survivors after deadly Afghanistan quake

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — Rescue workers on Tuesday searched for survivors after an earthquake in a remote western region of Afghanistan killed at least 26 people and damaged hundreds of houses, officials said. Monday’s 5.3-magnitude shallow quake jolted the province of Badghis and wrecked houses, mostly in Qadis district — a rural area not easily accessible by road. “The earthquake caused massive damage to houses, about 700 to 1,000 have been damaged,” Badghis provincial spokesman […]

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Scotland moves ahead with vast wind power projects

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Scotland, fresh from hosting the COP26 climate summit, on Monday awarded offshore wind project concessions for almost £700 million ($960 million, 840 million euros). Crown Estate Scotland announced in a statement that it has granted 17 concessions via an auction process to energy companies including BP, Royal Dutch Shell and SSE, as well as Spain’s Iberdrola and France’s TotalEnergies. The final awards received a total of 74 bids, totalled £699.2 […]

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Peru beaches suffer oil spill blamed on waves from Tonga volcanic eruption

by Carlos MANDUJANO Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) – Peruvian authorities sealed off three beaches Monday after they were hit by an oil spill blamed on freak waves caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga. The Pampilla Refinery, part of the Spanish company Repsol, said there had been a “limited spill” of oil off the coast of Callao and Ventanilla districts near Lima Saturday due to the violent waves produced by the eruption on the […]

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Severe and critical COVID-19 cases on the plateau while percentage of rise in cases decreasing – DOH chief

Says trend of rising cases characteristic of Omicron variant; PHL still in critical risk   (Eagle News) – Severe and critical cases are on a plateau while mild cases are increasing as the Department of Health noted an epidemic curve that is characteristic of the Omicron variant. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III also noted a decrease in the percentage of the rise in cases in the last few weeks, and hopefully would plateau soon, he […]

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DFA: 82 more Filipinos abroad test positive for COVID-19

(Eagle News) — Eighty-two more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the additional cases pushed the total cases among detected Filipinos abroad to 24373. “To date, the total number of countries and territories with confirmed cases is at 104 following a new report from a country in the Americas,” the department said. Four more recoveries also pushed the COVID-19 recovery total to 14441. COVID-19 deaths among […]

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House suspends session until Friday amid increase in COVID-19 cases

(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives has suspended its plenary sessions for the rest of the week. In a statement, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said the decision to suspend was arrived at  due to the continuing increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila. “Since the start of the year, more than 70 House members and employees have contracted the virus and many others are undergoing quarantine or self-isolation after exhibiting symptoms […]

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At least 26 killed in Afghan earthquake

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — At least 26 people were killed after an earthquake hit western Afghanistan on Monday, an official said. The victims died when roofs of their houses collapsed in Qadis district in the western province of Badghis, spokesman for the province Baz Mohammad Sarwary told AFP. The shallow quake was magnitude 5.3, according to the US Geological Survey. “Five women and four children are among the 26 people killed in the earthquake,” said […]

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