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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kyrie Irving scored 40 points as the red-hot Brooklyn Nets picked up where they left off before the All-Star break by beating the Boston Celtics 121-109 on Thursday in New York. With Kevin Durant sitting out his 10th straight game with an injury and James Harden struggling early with turnovers, Irving seized control of the game in the second quarter in front of a pandemic-limited crowd of 1,300 at […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, and CALABARZON will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the low pressure area 80 kilometers southeast of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Batanes and Babuyan […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police deputy chief for administration Police Lt. Guillermo Eleazar is now the national police force’s officer-in-charge. PNP Chief Debold Sinas designated Eleazar to the post after he tested positive for COVID-19. The PNP has said Sinas was asymptomatic and was in good condition. “As OIC PNP, I will be taking over the affairs of the PNP temporarily and until such time that our Chief PNP fully recovers,” Eleazar said in […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, March 12: MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights as only those with the same will be allowed entry into the airport. So far, the government said COVID-19 cases were increasing, and urged the public to continue to practice minimum health protocols. The OCTA research group earlier warned that COVID-19 cases could reach 6,000 daily […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan said Friday Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will meet President Joe Biden in the United States next month, becoming the first foreign leader to hold face-to-face talks with him. “If various circumstances allow, Prime Minister Suga will visit the US as early as the first half of April,” top government spokesman Katsunobu Kato told reporters at a daily briefing. “With this visit, Prime Minister Suga is expected to be the first […]
(Eagle News) — The 17 mayors of Metro Manila have agreed to impose a common curfew following the surge in COVID-19 cases. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Benhur Abalos said the curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. will start on Monday, March 15, and will last for two weeks. The development came after the Department of the Interior and Local Government urged local government units in the National Capital Region to adopt a common […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Debold Sinas has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the PNP said Sinas took three swab tests on different occasions, and his third test, the one he took on March 11, was the one that tested positive. The PNP said Sinas would submit himself to the Kiangan treatment facilities. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The OCTA research group has noted an […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden will order authorities across the entire United States to lift priority restrictions on people wanting to get Covid-19 vaccinations by the start of May, an official said Thursday. “He will direct states that no later than May 1, all Americans need to be eligible to receive the vaccine,” said a senior administration official, who asked not to be identified. Biden will discuss his plans in a primetime […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said Thursday. The US space agency said it will allow astronomers to get a rare close look at an asteroid. The asteroid, 2001 FO32, is estimated to be about 3,000 feet in diameter and was discovered 20 years ago, NASA said. “We know the […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden signed a massive $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill Thursday ahead of giving a national address where he was set to urge “hope” on the first anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden called the American Rescue Plan “historic” as he signed the package into law in the Oval Office. The bill, passed by Congress earlier this week, dishes out $1,400 payments to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A person who has had Covid and receives a single dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines is equally or better protected than someone who never had Covid and got two doses, according to a study. “We hope this data… will help shape more nuanced vaccine policy,” co-author Viviana Simon, a professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York told AFP Thursday. For […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US biotech firm Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine was shown to be 100 percent protective against severe cases of the disease, including hospitalization and death, the company said Thursday following trials. But its efficacy against the South African variant fell markedly when including mild and moderate cases, results showed. The results announced Thursday were from final analyses, following interim results that were announced in late January. In a Phase 3 trial in […]
