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MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP) — Four people have been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly stealing Covid-19 vaccines marked for prisoners and selling them to the public, authorities said Tuesday. The suspects took more than 1,000 doses made by China’s Sinovac from the prisoners’ quota, offering them to buyers in the capital Jakarta and in North Sumatra’s Medan city for around 250,000 rupiah ($17) each. The four arrested included a doctor at a prison in Medan and […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A new US travel warning for Japan over virus risks will not affect this summer’s pandemic-postponed Olympic Games, the Japanese government and Tokyo 2020 organizers said Tuesday. The US State Department advisory released Monday urges citizens to avoid travel to Japan, where the borders are already closed to almost all foreigners. It cites government health advice, as well as “secondary factors such as commercial flight availability, restrictions on US citizen entry, […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it was rerouting flights to avoid Belarus after Minsk forced a jet to land to arrest a dissident. “We are currently rerouting our flights that are bound for Europe to avoid the Belarusian airspace, and we will continue to closely monitor the situation,” a spokesperson told AFP. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Over 100 more police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said the additional 170 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 23,013. Of these, the PNP said 1550 were active. Ninety-nine recoveries also pushed the PNP recovery total to 21399. The PNP COVID-19 death toll is also now at 64, including the additional one. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, President Rodrigo […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand suspended quarantine-free travel with Australia’s Victoria state over a new coronavirus cluster Tuesday, the fourth time the trans-Tasman travel bubble has been disrupted since it opened last month. Officials in Wellington said they were taking a cautious approach after Melbourne recorded nine locally acquired cases in the past two days, believed to be related to a leak from a quarantine hotel. New Zealand’s Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins […]
Some 2 million Pfizer doses still to be used by Jerome TAYLOR Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warned Tuesday. Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world fortunate enough to have secured more than enough doses […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Milwaukee Bucks produced an exhibition of three-point shooting in a crushing victory over the Miami Heat to take a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference first round playoff series on Monday. Bryn Forbes erupted for five threes in the first half, and Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with 31 points to give the Bucks a resounding 132-98 win over last year’s NBA Finals runners-up. Overall, the Bucks made 22 of […]
Padilla urges more Filipinos to enlist for vaccine shots, avoid superspreader events https://youtu.be/GjpEwcbGTXc (Eagle News) – Over four million people have already been vaccinated in the country, according to National Task Force against COVID-19 spokesperson Ret. Gen. Restituto Padilla. This is just around 3 percent of the total population which is still very far from the 70 percent that are needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19, he said in an interview with the […]
GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) — Five people were found choked to death on toxic fumes from the eruption of eastern DR Congo’s Nyiragongo volcano on Monday, as strong aftershocks rocked the city of Goma. The deaths bring to 20 the number killed since Africa’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday, spewing red-hot molten lava that engulfed homes in its wake. “We have just discovered five dead people,” civil society leader Mambo Kawaya told AFP, saying […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered a probe into the shooting of a teenager with special needs during an arrest in Valenzuela City on Sunday, May 25. According to the PNP, the policeman implicated in the death of Edwin Cabantugan Arnigo—-a senior master sergeant— has been placed under restrictive custody. Eleazar said the policeman has also been disarmed “as a matter of investigative procedure.” “I have directed the Internal Affairs […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-eight more overseas Filipinos have tested positive for COVID-19. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad to 18697. “To date, the total number of countries and territories with confirmed cases among Filipinos abroad remains at 94,” the department said. Thirty-one additional recoveries, meanwhile, also pushed the recovery total to 11430. The death toll due to COVID-19 among Filipinos abroad has reached 1168, with […]
(Eagle News)– The Philippine National Police has identified the person reportedly behind the viral messages that guaranteed vaccine slots in the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program for a fee. In a statement, the PNP, without giving names, said the person offered his high school friend two brands of vaccines for prices ranging from P12,000 to P15,500 through a social media messaging app. The PNP said the person has been claiming that he has contacts in San Juan […]
