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TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s daily Covid caseload crossed the 30,000 mark for the first time on Monday, its health ministry said, marking a second record daily high within a week. In the past 24 hours, the Islamic republic registered a record 31,814 new infections to bring its total number of positive cases since the start of the pandemic to 3,723,246. It also recorded 322 additional coronavirus-related deaths, taking the total to 89,122. Iran’s daily […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 1,555,396 on Monday, July 26, after the Department of Health reported 6,664 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 55140 were active. Of these, 93.6 percent were mild, 1.1 percent asymptomatic, 1.4 percent were critical, 2.3 percent were severe, and 1.61 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1473009, including the additional 5766 ones. The death toll is now at 27243 including the […]
Japan’s Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women’s skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years and 330 days on Monday. Nishiya finished ahead of Brazil’s Rayssa Leal — who at 13 years and 203 days could have become the youngest ever individual Olympic champion — and Japan’s Funa Nakayama, 16. Nishiya starred in the tricks section to score 15.26 and give the hosts […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The number of people in France who have received at least one jab against Covid-19 has crossed the 40-million mark, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. After four million people received vaccines over the past two weeks, some 60 percent of the population are now partly or fully vaccinated, Macron tweeted during an official visit in French Polynesia. “All together, we will beat the virus. We will carry on,” he said. […]
Points to another possible Delta variant case who lives in another city, but is working in a factory in QC (Eagle News) — The Quezon City government said a returning Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) from Saudi Arabia who arrived on June 24, but stayed in a hotel in Makati City, is the first confirmed Delta variant case in the city, even as it is closely monitoring another possible Delta variant case. Although classified as […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s government will not extend a controversial coronavirus state of emergency beyond August 1, a minister said Monday, as parliament convened after a months-long suspension that sparked widespread anger. The king in January declared the country’s first nationwide state of emergency in more than half a century to fight Covid-19, following the advice of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. It allowed the government to rule by decree and suspend parliament, prompting […]
by Jeremie RICHARD Agence France-Presse STYKKISHOLMUR, Iceland (AFP) — On a remote island in Breidafjordur Bay off the west coast of Iceland, a thousand-year-old harvest takes place — the hunt for elusive eiderdown, used to make some of the world’s best duvets and quilts. The handpicked down sells for thousands of euros (dollars) a kilo, catering to those looking for exclusive products. Every summer, nearly 400 Icelandic farmers comb through hollow surfaces in the rock, on […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at the Batasang Pambansa before 4 p.m. on Monday, July 26, 2021 for his last State of the Nation Address (SONA). He is seen here meeting with officials and then looking at an exhibit before he enters the halls of Congress.
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Monday reported 76 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily rise since January, including 40 domestic transmissions prompting authorities to test millions in eastern Jiangsu province. Beijing has a zero-risk approach to the virus, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. It locks down cities and mass tests whenever small clusters appear. Tens of thousands of people are under lockdown in Jiangsu’s provincial capital Nanjing […]
CHICO, United States (AFP) — Thousands of US firefighters are battling a blaze in California that has grown so big it is generating its own weather system, with authorities warning conditions could worsen on Monday. The flames have grown so large that they have created clouds that can cause lightning and high winds, which in turn can serve to fuel the fire. Around 5,400 firefighters were struggling to contain the inferno. “It could be a […]
Financial analyst Astro Del Castillo gives his analysis of the so-called “Dutertenomics” in this interview during the Eagle News Service program “Balitalakayan” on July 26, 2021 aired on NET25. He gives a positive review of the economic policies of President Rodrigo Duterte, saying that there were many reform measures beneficial to the health and socio-economic reform of the country that were passed under his government. The massive infrastructure campaign under the “Build, Build, Build” […]
(Eagle News) — Starting Aug. 1, foreign spouses, children and parents of Filipino citizens who are traveling to the Philippines as tourists to visit their kin here no longer have to present an entry exemption document in Philippine ports for entry into the country. According to the Bureau of Immigration, this was after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infection Diseases issued its latest resolution requiring foreigners related by marriage or filiation […]
