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(Eagle News) – The Philippines has already vaccinated some 35.8 million individuals, 15 million of whom are considered fully vaccinated. Malacanang said 20.8 million got the initial dose, while 15,033,354 received the full dose or complete vaccination. This means a total of 35,838,964 individuals have received vaccines against COVID-19. The country aims to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the population. The Philippines has so far received 52,792,130 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran on Monday “strongly” condemned the Taliban’s military offensive against holdout fighters in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, as the Islamist group claimed it had taken control of the area. “The news coming from Panjshir is truly worrying. The assault is strongly condemned,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand will mostly lift its Covid-19 lockdown this week, with only the country’s infection epicentre Auckland to remain under strict stay-at-home orders, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday. About three million New Zealanders will no longer be under stay-at-home orders as of Tuesday overnight, and schools will reopen on Thursday for the first time in three weeks, Ardern said. But she added that Auckland, where the country’s Delta-variant outbreak […]
by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France Presse It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA’s helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn’t ready to retire. Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity’s mission indefinitely. The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel companion of the rover Perseverance, whose core mission is to seek signs of ancient life on Mars. “Everything is working […]
(Eagle News) — More areas are under Signal No. 1 as Tropical Depression “Jolina” slightly intensified and moved westward over the Philippine Sea. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the following areas are under the tropical cyclone wind signal, with “Jolina” estimated 205 km east southeast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar or 230 km east northeast of Surigao City, Surigao del Norte. The weather bureau said “Jolina” was packing maximum sustained winds […]
IATF approves community quarantine classifications for various areas in the country for the rest of the month (Eagle News) – Metro Manila will be placed under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) starting Sept. 8 to 30 but will start the pilot implementation of “hard” localized or granular lockdowns in certain areas, Malacanang said Monday, Sept. 6. This as the new community quarantine classifications were announced starting Wednesday, Sept. 8, until the end of the month. […]
by Taha Saleh with Shatha Yaish in Dubai TAEZ, Yemen (AFP) — Dozens of children kneel in an outdoor, makeshift classroom at the start of the school year in Yemen, where coronavirus and a brutal war have left them facing a bleak future. The youngsters in the impoverished Arab country’s third city of Taez make do and learn as best they can, seven years into a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and forced […]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) – Workers have deployed containment booms and skimmer devices as they attempt to contain a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico discovered after Hurricane Ida roared through the area, the US Coast Guard said Sunday. The spill is in waters off Port Fourchon, Louisiana — near where Ida made landfall — in a region that is a major hub of the US petrochemical industry. An oil slick now […]
(Eagle News) — All areas in Metro Manila except for Manila have been classified under COVID-19 Alert Level No. 4, the highest alert level, due to the continuous rise in cases and hospital bed use. Health Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire said a positive two-week growth rate and a high-risk average daily attack rate have been monitored in all areas, and the Delta variant detected in all areas. She said hospital bed utilization in all areas […]
by François PICARD HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Daniel Wilkinson survived two tours of duty in Afghanistan but died of gallstones, deteriorating slowly as his under-equipped doctors looked on helplessly. Wilkinson, 46, lived only 90 minutes by car or 30 minutes by helicopter from Houston, renowned for its top-flight hospitals. The problem is the Texas health care system has been utterly overwhelmed by people suffering from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. In this wealthy […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The Taliban on Sunday pledged to guarantee the safety of humanitarian workers and aid access in Afghanistan in a meeting with the UN humanitarian chief in Kabul, a UN spokesman said. Martin Griffiths was in the Afghan capital on Sunday for several days of meetings with Taliban leadership amid a looming humanitarian disaster in the country newly under the control of the hardline Islamists. “The authorities pledged that the […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse MARSEILLE, France (AFP) – Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area by 2025? The world’s top conservation body is on Sunday poised to decide whether its 1,400 members can vote on this controversial proposal, put forward by indigenous groups. Submitted under an emergency provision to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the measure calls for a “global action plan” to halt rampant deforestation […]
