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by James PHEBY LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain on Tuesday faced warnings of an impending hospital crisis due to staff shortages caused by a wave of Omicron infections, as the country returned to work after holiday Daily case numbers chalked up multiple records in the run-up to New Year, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson promising action to plug staffing gaps in the worst-hit areas. Hospital admissions have not hit anything like the peaks of […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — At least eight people have been killed in flash flooding in Iran’s south due to heavy rains expected to last until later this week, state media reported on Tuesday. “Following the floods and rains of the past few days in the southern regions of the country, we have seen an increase in casualties and deaths,” spokesman for the national rescue service Mojtaba Khaledi said, quoted by state news agency IRNA. “So […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s capital New Delhi will lock down over the weekend as authorities grapple with a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, partly fuelled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant. The country was battered by a devastating Covid outbreak last year that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums, but daily case numbers had since then stayed reasonably low until last week. Delhi’s new restrictions came the same day the sprawling megacity’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, […]
LHOK, SUKON, Indonesia (AFP) — About 24,000 people have been evacuated and two children killed in floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Tuesday, with environmental campaigners blaming deforestation for worsening the disaster. Torrential rains have hammered the island for days, causing rivers to burst their banks and sending water levels surging in residential areas, the national disaster agency said. “We experience flooding at least five to eight times a year — but (this) is […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A landslide at a construction site in southwest China’s Guizhou province has killed at least 14 people, state media reported Tuesday. Workers were reinforcing a hillside when the landslide happened on Monday evening, the official Xinhua news agency said. Rescuers have found 14 bodies, as well as three injured people, with the cause of the accident “still under investigation”, Xinhua reported. Rescue work is “completed”, with the three injured currently in […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson is in self-quarantine following exposure to his son who tested positive for COVID-19. According to Lacson, he already took a test to determine whether he had gotten the virus. The results are expected on Wednesday. He said he quarantined himself after his son received his RT-PCR test results on Monday night. He said he got exposed to his son on Sunday. So far, he said their household maid and […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Naomi Osaka said Tuesday that she aims to enjoy herself on court this year as she won on her return to action following a tearful exit at the US Open in September. The four-time Grand Slam champion, who has fallen to 13 in the rankings, said after her third-round defeat at Flushing Meadows that she was “dealing with some stuff” and would take an indefinite break from tennis. The former world […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant continues to spread at a blistering pace. Johns Hopkins also reported 1,688 deaths for the same period, a day after top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci had said the country is experiencing “almost a vertical increase” in Covid-19 cases but the peak may be only weeks away. […]
by Luján Scarpinelli SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was rushed to hospital early Monday with abdominal pain that doctors found was caused by a partial intestinal blockage, and is facing potential surgery nine months out from elections. Bolsonaro, 66, was on vacation at the beach in the southern state of Santa Catarina when the pain started, his latest health problem since being stabbed in the abdomen during the 2018 presidential campaign […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rose Tuesday following a strong lead from yet another record on Wall Street that was fuelled by easing concerns about Omicron and remaining optimism about the economic recovery. While the new Covid variant is spreading like wildfire around the world, it appears to be far less severe than initially feared, raising hopes that the pandemic could be overcome and life return to a little more normality. However, inflation, […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases rose to 2,861,119 on Tuesday, Jan. 4, after the Department of Health reported 5,434 additional cases. According to the DOH, all laboratories were functional on Jan. 2 while 16 did not submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System. The COVID-19 positivity rate according to the OCTA research group is at 26.2 percent. Of the total cases, the DOH said 29809 were active. Of these, 889 were asymptomatic, 24026 were […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – Two armed drones targeting an air base in western Iraq were shot down on Tuesday, an official of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said. “Two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were engaged and destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base early this morning,” the official said. “The attempted attack was unsuccessful. All forces are accounted for.” It is the second such attack in 24 hours […]
