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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis faces a lengthy injury layoff despite a scan revealing he had not suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, ESPN reported Monday. ESPN said Davis was unlikely to return to action before the NBA’s All-Star break, due to take place from March 5-10. Concern mounted for the 27-year-old’s fitness after he limped out of Sunday’s defeat to the Denver Nuggets with a recurrence of his […]
by Carol VALADE, with Philippe SIUBERSKI in Dakar CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) — Five people have died of Ebola virus in Guinea, the health agency said on Monday, as the government and aid groups began to roll out their response to the outbreak. Guinea announced the outbreak on Saturday — the first in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that left more than 11,300 dead in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to an epidemiological report […]
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi will appear in court via video conference this week over charges brought against her by the new military junta, her lawyer said Monday. Army chief General Min Aung Hlaing has justified the February 1 coup by alleging widespread voter fraud in November’s elections, which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept. Two days after the putsch, the 75-year-old Nobel laureate was hit […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A factfile on the Ebola virus that has plunged Guinea into an “epidemic situation” according to a senior health official, and which has killed more than 15,000 people since 1976. – Origins – Ebola was first identified in central Africa in 1976. The tropical virus was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo — then known as Zaire. Five of the virus species are known to cause […]
CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) — The head of Guinea’s health agency said Sunday that the country was in the midst of an Ebola “epidemic situation” with seven cases confirmed in the West African nation, including three deaths. “Very early this morning, the Conakry laboratory confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus,” Sakoba Keita said after an emergency meeting in the capital. Health Minister Remy Lamah had earlier spoken of four deaths. It was not immediately […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 550,860 on Monday, Feb. 15, after the Department of Health reported 1685 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 27588 were active. Of these, 86.6 percent were mild, 6.9 percent asymptomatic, 2.8 percent critical, 2.8 percent severe, and 0.86 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 511,755 including the 14 additional ones. Two additional deaths pushed the COVID-19 death toll to 11,517. The government is […]
(Eagle News) – Metro Manila mayors have expressed concern about the opening of cinemas this February in the Philippine capital especially with the emergence of new and more infectious COVID-19 variants in the country. Metro Manila Council chair Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said they have appealed this decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on the further opening of the economy, especially of enclosed air-conditioned cinemas. In an interview with NET25’s newest news […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s foreign minister resigned Sunday, the second top official to step down amid a growing scandal over politicians receiving Covid-19 vaccinations well before the general public. The South American nation has been badly hit by the pandemic, with its hospitals overwhelmed and a targeted vaccination program for health workers rolling out only from February 8. Public resentment over officials receiving vaccinations — despite there being no date for a wider […]
(Eagle News) — The reopening of cinemas in general community quarantine areas has been moved to March. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement on Monday, Feb. 15, days after the Metro Manila Council expressed concerns such a move would lead to a spread of COVID-19. MMC chair and Paranaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez had said the mayors had reservations because cinemas were “enclosed spaces.” “So ngayon po ang status nito, ang pagpapatupad po ng pagbubukas […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Tourism has filed a complaint against six tourists from Manila who present forged COVID-19 test results to get to Boracay. In a statement, the DOT said the six, who were caught in January, were charged for falsification of public documents. Of the six, three were found to be COVID-19-positive. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat also welcomed the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s directive for forgers of COVID-19 test […]
by Callum PATON Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 40,000 people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria can make pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell in English courts. The ruling overturned a 2017 decision against the Ogale and Bille communities, who brought legal claims for clean-up and compensation following decades of repeated spills in the oil-rich region. The claimants have argued for five […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant will miss at least two games with a strained left hamstring, the NBA team said Sunday. Durant scored 20 points in 33 minutes Saturday at Golden State — his first return to the home court of the Warriors team he helped to NBA titles in 2017 and 2018. He suffered a torn Achilles tendon in the 2019 championship series and then departed Golden State […]
