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The Philippines will tighten coronavirus restrictions in the capital Manila over fears of an “exponential growth” in cases due to the highly contagious Omicron variant, the government said on Friday. The metropolis of 13 million will be placed on the third-highest level of alert from Monday until January 15, under a new system that aims to balance the need to contain infections with the reopening of the Philippine economy, which has been hit hard […]
(Eagle News) — The northeast monsoon is affecting the entire country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Visayas and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rains as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to scattered light to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Cagayan Valley, Bicol Region, Aurora and Quezon, meanwhile, will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, meanwhile, will have […]
Children on French public transport will soon have to wear a face mask from the age of six upwards, the government decreed Saturday, as part of its latest measures against coronavirus. Masks had previously been compulsory from the age of 11, but Paris is tightening regulations given the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Children aged six and older will have to don a mask on all means of public transport within national borders from […]
Europe has recorded over 100 million coronavirus cases, more than a third of all infections worldwide, since the start of the pandemic, an AFP tally Saturday showed. The continent has once again become the pandemic’s epicentre in recent months, and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on by the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the virus. The European region, including 52 countries and territories from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, has recorded […]
Three people are missing after a wildfire tore through several Colorado towns, quickly destroying nearly 1,000 homes as part of the latest in a string of US natural disasters. “We’re very fortunate that we don’t have a list of 100 missing. But unfortunately we do have three confirmed missing people,” Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle told a press conference. At least 991 homes are thought to have been destroyed as the blaze raced through the […]
Britain’s health minister insisted Saturday reimposing coronavirus restrictions in England would be “an absolute last resort” and that the country must “try to live with Covid”. The country is among those in Europe hardest hit by the pandemic, registering nearly 149,000 deaths. It counted almost 163,000 new cases Saturday, a slight dip after days of unprecedented daily tallies. The UK government, which has responsibility for health policies in England only, has so far refused to […]
Extreme weather in Alaska that has brought record high temperatures and torrential downpours has left authorities in the far northern US state warning of “Icemageddon”. Huge sheets of ice are blocking roads and choking traffic in Fairbanks, Alaska’s second largest city, reported the state’s transportation department, which has coined the neologism — a play on “Armageddon” — to describe the chilly impasse. “We’re experiencing an unprecedented series of winter storms,” the department tweeted. Scientists say […]
Philippine Airlines has said it has emerged from bankruptcy after a US court approved its plan to slash up to $2 billion in debt and obtain additional capital. The national carrier of the Philippines had filed for bankruptcy in the United States in September, seeking relief from creditors as it tried to survive the devastation unleashed on the airline industry by the coronavirus pandemic. Its court-approved reorganisation plan includes a $2 billion debt reduction and […]
Air travel continued to be severely disrupted in the United States on Saturday, with bad weather in parts of the country adding to the impact of a massive spike in Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Omicron variant. The United States had 2,604 cancelled flights, more than half of the 4,529 cancelled worldwide, shortly after 4:30 pm (2130 GMT), according to tracking website FlightAware. In addition, 3,447 domestic flights were delayed on Saturday, out of a total […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,847,486 after the Department of Health reported 3,617 additional cases. The figure is an increase from the 2,961 additional cases reported on Friday, Dec. 31. According to the DOH, two laboratories were not operational on December 30, 2021, while six labs did not submit recent data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS). The DOH said of the total cases, 17374 were active. Of these, […]
(Eagle News) — The management of the Makati hotel where a returning overseas Filipino from the United States was supposed to have stayed for the duration of her quarantine upon arrival in the country has apologized for “failing to stop” that same guest from skipping her quarantine. In a statement, the Berjaya Hotel said that while the 38-year-old female guest and her friends “are reportedly only mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic, this was a very serious […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among police personnel rose to 42,274 on Saturday, Jan. 1. According to the Philippine National Police, this was after 12 additional cases were reported, the first double-digit figure reported in recent weeks. Of the total cases, 39 were active. With the additional recovery, the total PNP COVID-19 recoveries are now at 42110. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 12. Earlier, the Department […]
