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(Eagle News) – More than half a million AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in the country on Friday, Aug. 20, further boosting the country’s vaccine supplies which now reached more than 46.5 million doses. The China Airlines flight carrying 582,500 AstraZeneca jabs procured by local government units and the private sector through the “A Dose of Hope” project arrived on Friday afternoon, August 20, as scheduled. The latest delivery brings to 2,309,100 the total procured AstraZeneca […]
(Eagle News) — More Filipinos have left Afghanistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, Aug. 21, leaving the number of Filipinos remaining in the country to around 81. The DFA said an additional 13 Filipinos managed to leave the country, which is on alert level 4 amid what the department described as an uncertain security situation, following the Taliban’s takeover of the government. The additional 13 Filipinos who left brought the number of […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, Aug. 21: Flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to coordinate with their airlines first prior to the scheduled travel as a result. The travel ban on India and nine other countries has been extended. Metro Manila is under a modified enhanced community quarantine until the end of the month.
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Friday, Aug. 20, announced the arrest of two Korean fugitives in Boracay. In a statement, the bureau said Kwon Yongtae, 58 and Im Seung Il, 39 were nabbed in an operation in Barangay Balabag on Aug. 13. The bureau said Kwon has a warrant of arrest issued against him by the Seoul Bukbu District Court in 2012 for fraud. Im, on the other hand, has a standing […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered police to prioritize the campaign against the New People’s Army in Masbate amid the series of attacks against civilians in recent months. Eleazar gave the order to Police Regional Office 5 Director Jonnel Estomo after a barangay captain and his companions survived an attack the police said was perpetrated by the NPA in Placer. The attack took place a few days after three street […]
(Eagle News) — “Isang” has intensified into a tropical storm. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said, however, that it is unlikely to affect weather conditions in the Philippines or bring heavy rainfall. The weather bureau said moderate to occasionally heavy rain showers with lightning and strong winds, however, are expected over portions of Pangasinan, particularly Agno, Anda, Bani, Bolinao and Sual. Meanwhile, moderate to occasionally heavy rain showers are being experienced over […]
New COVID deaths recorded for the day jump to 317 (Eagle News) – The Philippines recorded its highest ever single-day record of new COVID-19 cases at 17,231 on Friday, Aug. 20, the last day of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) for the country’s capital region, Metro Manila. Because of this, the total confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 1,807,800, with active cases at 123,251. The Department of Health also recorded the third highest number of COVID-19 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Drug firm AstraZeneca on Friday announced positive results from a trial of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, was initially developed as a treatment for those who had already been exposed to the disease. A new trial of 5,197 participants who had not been exposed showed a 77-percent reduced risk of developing symptomatic disease, with no severe cases recorded, Astra said […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A Texas mother of four refused a Covid-19 vaccine, but after losing her husband to the virus and contracting it herself, her dying wish was clear: get her children immunized. Lydia Rodriguez, 42, a piano teacher in the small town of La Marque died on Monday, two weeks after her husband, Lawrence, 49, succumbed to the virus. Rodriguez’ cousin Dottie Jones told the local television station ABC13 that the couple […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Paralympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday as virus cases hit fresh records nationwide just four days before the Games begin. Japan’s daily infections topped 25,000 for the first time on Thursday, with the number of severe cases also higher than ever as the nation battles a fifth wave driven by the more contagious Delta variant. As Tokyo prepares to host the top sporting event for athletes with disabilities, organisers […]
by David FOX KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — The Taliban are going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families, according to an intelligence document for the UN that deepened fears Friday Afghanistan’s new rulers were reneging on pledges of tolerance. After routing government forces and taking over Kabul on Sunday to end two decades of war, the hardline Islamist movement’s leaders have repeatedly vowed a complete amnesty as part of a well-crafted PR blitz. Women […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on state television, is part of China’s heavily promoted space programme which has already seen the nation land a rover on Mars and send probes to the moon. In June, three crew arrived at the station, where they are set […]
