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(Eagle News) — Operations in the consular office in Ali Mall in Quezon City are suspended starting Wednesday, Nov. 3. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the suspension, which will end on Nov. 5, was after five of its personnel tested positive for COVID-19. The other personnel in the consular office, the DFA said, have been identified as close contacts. The DFA said the suspension would allow for the conduct of a thorough disinfection […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant deaths each year. A fresh report by the UN health agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that the impact of Group B Streptococcus infection (GBS), which is estimated to live harmlessly in the intestinal tracts of up to a third of […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring two low pressure areas. According to PAGASA, one LPA was so far situated 70 kilometers west of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental while the other was at 1,095 kilometers east of Visayas. PAGASA said the northeast monsoon is still affecting Luzon. According to the weather bureau, Visayas, Masbate, Palawan, Zamboanga del Norte, and Misamis Occidental will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Wednesday, Nov. 3: Flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to coordinate with their airlines as only those with the confirmation of travel will be allowed entry into the airport premises. The Bureau of Immigration has said tourists are not allowed into the country even if they come from countries on the Philippines’ green […]
MALLAMA, Colombia (AFP) — Ten people died after a mudslide caused by heavy rains in southwest Colombia engulfed a hotel Tuesday, rescuers said. Nine people were pulled out alive, two of them in serious condition. The mudslide happened in the early hours of the day in Mallama, a town of 7,000 close to the border with Ecuador. Eight of the dead were women, including some Venezuelans, Jader Gaviria, director of the national disaster management body […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – The 3.5 trillion tonnes of Greenland’s ice sheet that has melted over the past decade has raised global sea levels by one centimetre and is heightening worldwide flood risks, new research showed on Monday. The ice sheet atop the world’s largest island contains enough frozen water to lift oceans some six metres (20 feet) globally, and extreme melting events there have been increasing in frequency for […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French transport police shot and gravely wounded a man at a Paris railway station who threatened them with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) in Arabic, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man rushed at police just before midnight on Monday at Saint-Lazare, one of the capital’s busiest train stations, a police source who asked not to be named told AFP, confirming a report first broadcast on […]
by Peter HUTCHISON and Diane DESOBEAU NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New Yorkers voted Tuesday in a mayoral election that is virtually guaranteed to elect Black former policeman Eric Adams as the next leader of America’s biggest city. The centrist Democrat is expected to trounce Republican rival and volunteer crime fighter Curtis Sliwa in the liberal-voting bastion to become just the second African American to lead the Big Apple. Being New York’s mayor is […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An expert panel unanimously recommended Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds on Tuesday, the penultimate step in the process that will allow injections in young children to begin this week in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the top US public health agency, was expected to endorse that recommendation later Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine for the age group […]
(Eagle News) — More than 500 new cases of the Delta variant have been reported in the Philippines. According to the Department of Health, apart from the additional 520 Delta variant cases, 83 more Beta variant cases and 64 more Alpha variant cases were also reported in the latest genome sequencing run. With the additional Delta cases, the total is now at 5,331, the DOH said. The DOH has said the variant is the most […]
by Jitendra JOSHI / Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) — World leaders will conclude a two-day climate summit on Tuesday with a multibillion-dollar pledge to end deforestation by 2030 — a date too far away for campaigners who want action sooner to save the planet’s lungs. The pledge was to be issued at the UN’s COP26 conference, which will continue for another fortnight to try to craft national plans to forestall […]
But rise in percentage of moderate, severe and critical cases seen (Eagle News) — The Department of Health recorded just 2,303 new COVID cases on Tuesday, Nov. 2, bringing total active cases to 40,786, the lowest number of active cases since early March. The total active cases on March 8 this year were just 39,330. On Tuesday, the percentage of active cases went down to 1.5 percent, a new record-low. But total active cases […]
