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by Chris Lefkow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Virginia on Wednesday became the first southern US state to abolish the death penalty and the 23rd state in the country to end capital punishment. Democratic Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation repealing the death penalty in Virginia, saying it was “the moral thing to do.” Virginia is the first of the southern states that made up the Confederacy during the 1861-65 US Civil […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 693,048 on Thursday, March 25, after the Department of Health reported an all-time high of 8,773 additional cases. According to DOH data, the additional cases pushed the total active COVID-19 cases to 99,891, only 109 cases shy of the 100,000 mark. This is the second time the Philippines reported over 8,000 additional COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began. Of these active cases, 95 percent were mild, 3 percent […]
Makes appeal to follow priority list so as not to imperil COVAX Facility vaccine deliveries (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte expressed dismay about some persons who are not health workers who got vaccines against COVID-19, which was against the protocol of the Philippine vaccine rollout. Duterte said that this incidents could put in peril the arrival of more vaccines from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX Facility since the condition to vaccinate health […]
RICHMOND, Australia (AFP) — Flood-stricken residents along Australia’s east coast began a massive clean up effort on Thursday as waters receded, revealing damaged homes, piles of debris and mud-caked roads. The region has been devastated by widespread flooding brought on by a torrential downpour that inundated towns, destroyed farmland and left two people dead. With the rain clouds finally clearing to reveal blue skies, thousands of people in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine General Hospital has warned the public to be wary of suspicious-looking RT-PCR reports. The PGH issued the statement after it received reports of its RT-PCR forms being used to reflect fake negative COVID-19 test results. According to PGH, the authenticity of reports can be verified by sending an email to [email protected]. Earlier, the Philippine National Police vowed to intensify its crackdown on individuals who falsify COVID-19 test results and medical […]
by Kang Jin-kyu SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea Thursday, in its first substantive provocation to the new US administration of Joe Biden. The nuclear-armed North has a long history of using weapons tests to ramp up tensions, in a carefully calibrated process to try to forward its objectives. Donald Trump’s first year in office was marked by a series of escalating launches, accompanied by a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were outdated. The company now says its vaccine is 76 rather than 79 percent effective at preventing any kind of symptomatic Covid. It remains 100 percent effective against severe Covid, it added. The move came after an independent panel of experts […]
by Andrew McKirdy with Sara Hussein in Tokyo FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AFP) — The Tokyo Olympics torch relay got off to a low-key start after a year’s coronavirus delay on Thursday, with fans kept away as it embarked on a four-month journey across Japan that will end at the opening ceremony on July 23. Spectators were barred from the departure ceremony and first leg over ongoing fears about the coronavirus, which forced the 2020 Games’ historic […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police’s molecular laboratory in Cebu is now operational. The PNP said this was after the Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau of the Department of Health granted the PNP Regional Health Service-7 the license to operate. The DOH license that is effective until December 2021 gives the PNP-RHS7 official authority to conduct Reverse Transcriptase – Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing to detect COVID-19 cases. According to PNP officer-in-charge Lt. […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has extended its lockdown until April 12. Senate President Tito Sotto made the announcement during the plenary session on Wednesday, March 24. Sotto said only virtual hearings will be allowed for the duration of the lockdown. An advisory issued to Senate employees showed only a 30 percent capacity will be allowed inside the Senate starting April 12. The Philippines is currently dealing with a surge in COVID-19 cases, with the […]
(Eagle News) – EBC Films’ “Guerrero Dos: Tuloy” ang Laban has been nominated in eight categories in the 36th Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards for Movies. The movie itself has been nominated as “Indie Movie of the Year, while its director Carlo Ortega Cuevas was nominated in the category Indie Movie Director of the Year, Indie Movie Screenwriter of the Year, and Indie Movie Musical Scorer Of The Year along with Abet […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Africa experienced a 30-percent rise in infections in its second wave of coronavirus last year but implemented fewer public health measures than in the first, research showed Thursday. Writing in The Lancet medical journal, researchers said a loosening of public health measures such as distancing and intermittent lockdowns probably contributed to higher death tolls during the second wave. The study looked at Covid-19 case, death, recovery and test data carried out […]
