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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte received the second dose of his COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, July 12. Pictures posted on Senator Bong Go’s Facebook account showed Health Secretary Francisco Duque III administering the dose. The President received his first dose of China’s Sinopharm on May 3. According to World Health Organization guidelines, Sinopharm’s two vaccine doses should be administered in intervals of three to four weeks. If the second dose is administered less than […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, July 13: MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. MIAA also said flight schedules may be subject to changes. The travel ban on passengers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Oman and the United Arab Emirates is in effect until July 15. […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The Spanish tourist regions of Catalonia and Valencia on Monday announced new measures to rein in the growing spread of coronavirus. Regional leaders in northeastern Catalonia said all public activities must finish at half past midnight, and no more than 10 people will be allowed to gather in private or public places. “The data are more than worrying, they are frankly very, very bad,” Catalonia’s public health secretary Josep Maria Argimon […]
by Andrew MARSZAL LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Wildfires were burning across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada on Monday, as scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Some 850,000 acres were on fire in the United States — mainly in western states such as Oregon, California and Arizona — while more than 300,000 acres smoldered in Canada’s British Columbia alone, […]
by Bassem al-Rikabi NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) — At least 41 people died when fire engulfed the coronavirus isolation ward of an Iraqi hospital on Monday, the second such deadly blaze in three months, a health official said. The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah late Monday and was brought under control by local civil defence forces. Another health official, Haydar al-Zamili, told AFP that the “fire… ripped […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Irish no-frills airline Ryanair unveiled plans Monday to hire more than 2,000 additional pilots as it navigates a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The pilots will fly Ryanair’s planned new fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which are aimed at cutting costs, fuel consumption, noise and CO2 emissions, the Dublin-based carrier added in a statement. Ryanair had in May posted an annual net loss of 1.0 billion euros ($1.18 billion) […]
Solar activity could spark “minor geomagnetic storms,” “high latitude auroras,” says space weather forecast (Eagle News) – A “high-speed stream of solar wind” is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field Monday, July 12, according to the latest space weather forecast. The solar wind on July 12, 2021 has a speed of 303.9 kilometers per second, according to spaceweather.com in its update as of 1101 UT (Editor’s note: 7:01 p.m. Philippine Time). Spaceweather.com provides “news […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Two Chinese vaccine makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have agreed to immediately begin making more than 100 million Covid vaccine doses available to the Covax distribution facility, Gavi said Monday. “The agreements, which come at a time when the Delta variant is posing a rising risk to health systems, will begin to make 110 million doses immediately available to participants of the Covax facility, with options for additional doses,” said the vaccine […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A hotel collapsed in eastern China Monday, leaving at least one person dead and 10 others missing, the local government said. Rescuers had pulled seven survivors from the rubble of the budget Siji Kaiyuan hotel in the popular tourist city of Suzhou, according to a statement on the city government’s official social media account. The Suzhou government said it was “sparing no effort to treat the injured”, adding that authorities were […]
https://youtu.be/opBJQDw6O9w (Eagle News) — Balitalakayan interviews the Secretary-General Filipino Nurses United (FNU), Ms. Jocelyn Andamo, who said that removing professional board or licensure exams for nurses at this time was not a good idea. Andamo also expressed concern on the suggestion of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to do away with board exams, including for the health profession, saying this could even be dangerous since the nursing and medical professions deal with lives. The […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 1,478,061 on Monday, July 12, after the Department of Health reported 5,204 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 49,128 were active. Of these, 89.6 percent were mild, 4.7 percent asymptomatic, 1.5 percent critical, 2.5 percent severe, and 1.72 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1,402,918 including the additional 5811 recoveries. The death toll is now at 26015, including the additional 100 deaths. The […]
(Eagle News) – The country has fully vaccinated more than 3.5 million Filipinos as of Monday, July 12, while those given just first doses reaching 9.6 million. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, who also chairs the National Vaccination Operations Center, said that more than 13.1 million so far have been administered vaccines against COVID-19. She said that by end of July or in August, the country can administer 200,000 to 300,000 jabs per day. In […]
