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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,765,672 with the addition of 4,393 cases. According to the Department of Health, of the total cases, 53642 were active. Of these, 74.8 percent were mild, 6.7 percent asymptomatic, 2.4 percent critical, 5.8 percent were severe, and 10.37 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 2669953 with the addition of 8470 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 42077 after 135 additional deaths were reported. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China placed a city of four million under lockdown on Tuesday in a bid to stamp out a domestic coronavirus spike, with residents told not to leave home except in emergencies. The restrictions came as China reported 29 new domestic infections — including six cases in Lanzhou, the provincial capital of northwestern province Gansu. Officials in Lanzhou said the “entry and exit of residents” would be strictly controlled and limited to […]
by Allison JACKSON GUINOBATAN, Philippines (AFP) — A year after a powerful storm sent an avalanche of volcanic rock and sand crashing down, burying her house, Philippine food vendor Florivic Baldoza still lives in an evacuation centre. As global warming brings increasingly extreme weather, she now fears “nowhere is safe”. Hundreds of families from poor villages around Mayon volcano in Albay province on the country’s most populous island of Luzon are waiting for new homes […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Oriental on Tuesday, Oct. 26. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 1:51 p.m. It had its epicenter 16 kilometers northeast of Caraga. The depth of focus was 32 kilometers. PHIVOLCS said the earthquake was of tectonic origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring two tropical cyclones outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. PAGASA said a tropical depression is so far located 230 kilometers west of Kalayaan Islands. A tropical storm, on the other hand, is situated 1760 kilometers east of Northern Luzon. PAGASA said Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Aurora, Quezon, Camarines Provinces, and Catanduanes will have cloudy skies with rains but due to the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Former South Korean president and general Roh Tae-woo, who was instrumental in crushing the Gwangju Uprising at a cost of hundreds of lives, died of natural causes on Tuesday aged 88, according to reports. Roh withdrew from public view around 20 years ago following a diagnosis of prostate cancer, and was being treated at the Seoul National University Hospital, Yonhap news agency reported. He was elected to serve as president […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured — including a police officer — when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho. Police in Boise were called to the mall with reports “that at least one person was shot and down,” the city’s police chief Ryan Lee told reporters. They exchanged fire with a man matching the description 911 callers […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico on Monday began Covid-19 vaccinations for adolescents with chronic diseases in the capital, the latest step in an immunization drive in one of the countries hit hardest by the pandemic. Authorities in Mexico City said they had begun using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to inoculate minors with comorbidities aged between 12 and 17 years old. Fifteen-year-old Paola Abigail Chocooj, who has diabetes, was among those participating, some in their school […]
by Pathom SANGWONGWANICH BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — As night falls on a bustling junction close to the heart of Bangkok, gangs of young protesters take on police with slingshots, firecrackers and homemade “ping pong” bombs, turning the streets into a battle zone. The student protest movement that gripped Thailand last year with its taboo-smashing demands for royal reform has largely died down, splintered by infighting and left rudderless by the arrest of several key leaders. […]
PDP-Laban standard bearer says he had a long and serious talk with presidential daughter (Eagle News) — PDP-Laban standard bearer Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa visited Davao City mayor Sara Duterte on Monday, Oct. 25, to remind her of the November 15 deadline for the substitution of candidates. Dela Rosa posted a photo of him at the office of the Davao City mayor, with the description that this was only a “teaser” of his […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A “bomb cyclone” brought floods and landslides to drought-hit California as forest fire-scarred landscapes were unable to soak up record-breaking rains. Severe thunderstorms deluged the northern part of the state, with strong winds pummeling the area, toppling powerlines and trees and leaving at least two people dead. The cyclone roared in from the Pacific Ocean and struck San Francisco and Oakland, as well as the states of Oregon and […]
by Huw GRIFFITH LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the loaded weapon that killed a cinematographer had been sacked from a previous production for gun safety violations, the company said Monday. The news came as it was reported that crew members had used that same weapon for live-ammunition target practice on the day Halyna Hutchins died. Hutchins was killed Thursday on the set of low-budget Western “Rust” when […]
