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(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, July 17: MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights first before proceeding to the airport as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. The travel ban on passengers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Oman and the United Arab Emirates has been extended until July 31. Also included in […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine health officials warned Friday of a possible surge in coronavirus infections as the first locally transmitted cases of the highly contagious Delta variant were recorded and more than three million people went into lockdown. Eleven local cases of the more virulent strain have been detected, including two in the national capital region, the health department said, citing results of genome sequencing conducted this week. The cases dated back to […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, UN rights experts warned Friday. The UN child rights committee said it had received “credible information” that 75 children had been killed and around 1,000 arrested in Myanmar since February 1. “Children in Myanmar are under siege and facing catastrophic loss of life because of the military coup,” committee chair […]
Iloilo province, Iloilo City, Cagayan de Oro province and Gingoog City placed under ECQ until July 31 (Eagle News) — Malacanang announced on Friday, July 16, the escalation of the community quarantine classification for Iloilo Province, Iloilo City, Cagayan de Oro province, and Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental to Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) until July 31. Previously, these areas were under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ). The revision of the new quarantine classifications came […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Friday, July 16, reported hundreds of additional Alpha and Beta variant cases in the country. The Alpha variant was first detected in the United Kingdom, and the Beta variant in South Africa. In its report, the DOH said, in particular, the department, the Philippine Genome Center, and the Philippine General Hospital detected 264 more Alpha variant cases and 299 more Beta variant cases. The results were based […]
by Marianne BARRIAUX with Agence France Presse bureaus The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday that “more dangerous” variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world as global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain. An AFP tally of official sources found that after an initial dip, cases have been rising again worldwide since the end of June, topping 540,000 on Tuesday and again on Wednesday. “The […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 1496328 on Friday, July 16, after the Department of Health reported 5,676 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 91.8 percent were mild, 2.1 percent asymptomatic, 1.6 percent critical, 2.6 percent severe, and 1.85 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1421372, including the additional 2670 recoveries. The death toll is now at 26476 including the additional 162 deaths. On Friday, the DOH […]
by Christof STACHE Agence France Presse The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 93 Friday, most of them in western Germany, where emergency responders were searching for hundreds of missing people. “I fear that we will only see the full extent of the disaster in the coming days,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said from Washington late Thursday, where she met with President Joe Biden. Catching residents of several regions unaware […]
Watch the news and other features in Bukidnon as reported in the Cebuano dialect in this online edition of Agila Pilipinas (Philippine news in the provinces) Some of the news in this episode: – National ID registration in San Fernando, Bukidnon; – Monitoring of checkpoints in Bukidnon; – and price monitoring of vegetable prices in the public markets (Eagle News Service)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Virus-wracked Indonesia posted record daily infections topping 54,000 on Wednesday as the highly infectious Delta variant rips across the archipelago, catapulting it ahead of India as Asia’s Covid-19 epicentre. The Southeast Asian nation has been battered by a virus explosion that overwhelmed hospitals, leaving scores to die at home, while desperate relatives hunt for oxygen tanks to treat the sick. On Wednesday, Indonesia’s health ministry posted its highest-ever 54,517 new […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — People who received BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine had ten times the amount of antibodies than those given China’s Sinovac, a Hong Kong study has shown, adding to growing data on different jabs’ effectiveness. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) research, based on a study of 1,442 healthcare workers, was published in Lancet Microbe on Thursday. Researchers said antibodies are not the only measure of a vaccine’s success at fighting a […]
(Eagle News) — Seventy-three more COVID-19 cases were reported among police personnel. According to recent Philippine National Police data, the additional cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 29203. Of these, 1366 were active. Recoveries also rose to 27760 including the additional 93 ones. The PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 77, with no additional deaths reported. COVID-19 vaccination of police personnel under the A4 category is ongoing. President Rodrigo Duterte has said the police […]
