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ROME, Italy (AFP) — People in Italy who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are barred from restaurants or taking domestic flights under new rules which came into force Monday as schools reopened nationwide. Only those who have recently recovered from a coronavirus infection are exempt from the regulations, which represent a further tightening of restrictions in the face of rising infections. The majority of schools opened Monday for a new term under government orders, despite […]
(Eagle News) — The United States donated an additional 2.7 million Pfizer vaccine doses to the country which were delivered on Sunday, January 9. The additional 2,703,870 Pfizer doses were donated by the US government through the COVAX facility. As of Monday, January 10, 2022, over 22.7 million Pfizer doses have been delivered to the country through the facilitation of the US government, while 40 million were procured by the Philippine government bringing to […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — What’s in a name? For Indian travel start-up founder Kovid Kapoor, it has made him a social media sensation. The 31-year-old’s Twitter profile declares: “My name is Kovid and I am not a virus.” He posted this week that he had travelled outside India for the first time since the onset of the pandemic “and got a bunch of people amused by my name”. “Future foreign trips are going to […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian and European markets rose Monday as traders brushed off another negative performance on Wall Street as US data showed fewer new jobs than expected were created last month but that wages saw a strong gain, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve in its battle against inflation. Traders will be keeping a watch on inflation readings out of the United States and China this week as they try to […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,998,530 on Monday, Jan. 10, after the Department of Health reported 33,169 additional cases. According to the DOH, all laboratories were operational on Jan. 8 while 10 labs did not submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS). The DOH said of the total cases, 157526 were active. Of these, 4994 were asymptomatic, 147912 were mild, 2858 were moderate, 1461 were severe, and 301 […]
(Eagle News) — Pampanga Rep. Mikey Arroyo has tested positive for COVID-19. In a Facebook post, Arroyoo said the results were based on an antigen he took on Monday morning, Jan. 10. “I’m [asymptomatic] for now and have gotten in touch with a doctor to take care of me,” he said. He said he has so far been advised to undergo home isolation in Pampanga and take anti-COVID-19 drug molnupiravir and vitamins. Metro Manila is […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — The northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Sunday advised its nearly 14 million people to stay home while it conducted mass Covid testing after a spate of recent cases, including two caused by the Omicron variant, state-controlled media reported. Tianjin emerged as a new area of concern after more than 20 Covid cases were reported there in the last few days, most of them imported from abroad, according to the National […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China reported more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant on Monday, with authorities on high alert over flare-ups in major cities just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The emergence of the fast-spreading variant is yet another test of China’s zero Covid strategy, with authorities already battling several outbreaks — including in Xi’an where 13 million city residents were in their third week of lockdown. Fears grew about […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader. The Nobel laureate has been detained since February 1 when her government was forced out in an early morning coup, ending Myanmar’s short-lived experiment with democracy. The generals’ power grab triggered widespread dissent, which security forces […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Three-time NBA champion Klay Thompson returned from a 31-month injury absence on Sunday as the Golden State Warriors celebrated “Klay Day” with a 96-82 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thompson — who won titles with the Warriors in 2015, 2017 and 2018 — received a rapturous welcome at Chase Center in San Francisco. It was his first game in the arena, which the Warriors have only called home since […]
by Christopher RICKLETON Agence France Presse ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN (AFP) — More than 160 people were reported Sunday to have died in several days of unrest in Kazakhstan and almost 6,000 have been arrested after riots in Central Asia’s largest country. The energy-rich nation of 19 million people has been rocked by a week of upheaval, with a number of foreigners detained over the unrest. A government-run information portal on Sunday said that 164 people […]
Dr. Herbosa says Alert Level 4 “possible” to be raised in NCR in the next few days with increasing hospital admissions and rising number of health workers getting infected (Eagle News) – Metro Manila and other areas under Alert Level 3 could be elevated to Alert Level 4 if the health care utilization in hospitals and health care systems reaches high-risk level, health experts said. Dr. Ted Herbosa, the special adviser of the Inter-Agency Task […]
