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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India will supply more locally made coronavirus vaccines to other countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday, as he hailed the South Asian giant’s fight against the pandemic. India — home to the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute — has embarked on a form of vaccine diplomacy, gifting millions of doses to neighboring countries. It has also exported commercial shots to Brazil and Morocco and expects to supply […]
(Eagle News) — A rainfall advisory has been raised over parts of Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said light to moderate rains are expected over Camiguin Island, Fuga Island, and Cagayan (Gonzaga and Lallo). PAGASA said these may persist within 30 minutes to an hour. Moderate to occasionally heavy rains, on the other hand, are being experienced over Luna in Apayao. Light to moderate rains are expected over Babuyan Island, […]
DFA chief Locsin tests negative, to go on quarantine (Eagle News) –The main building of the Department of Foreign Affairs will go on lockdown until Tuesday, Feb. 2, after some officers tested positive for COVID-19. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said in a Tweet he would go on quarantine after interacting with the officers he met the day before, but noted that he has tested negative. The foreign affairs chief said the main building […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that was identified in South Africa has been detected for the first time on US soil, officials said Thursday. The cases were found in the state of South Carolina in two adults with no travel history and no connection to each other, according to a statement. “The arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 variant in our state is an important reminder to all South Carolinians […]
(Eagle News) — Fifty-six more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said the additional COVID-19 recoveries pushed the PNP COVID-19 recovery total to 9,439. Forty-one additional cases, however, also pushed the PNP COVID-19 tally to 10,042. Of these, 575 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP death toll due to COVID-19 remains at 28. Uniformed personnel, including policemen, are among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today, Jan. 29, as the northeast monsoon affects Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Bicol Region, Aurora and Quezon will experience those conditions, with flashfloods or landslides during moderate with at times heavy rains possible. Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with […]
(Eagle News) — The military general whose office was behind the posting of what the Department of National Defense said was an “erroneous list” of New People’s Army members on Facebook has gone on leave. Major General Benedict Arevalo, the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ deputy chief of staff for civil military operations, said his decision was in light of a probe into the mistake “committed by J7 staff” but for which he said he […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Jan. 29: Flight schedules may change at any given time. The Philippine government has imposed travel restrictions on over 30 countries following reports of the United Kingdom and South African COVID-19 strains there. These countries are the UK, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Australia, Israel, the Netherlands, China and Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US biotech firm Novavax said its Covid-19 vaccine candidate showed 89.3 efficacy in a major phase 3 clinical trial involving more than 15,000 people. “NVX-CoV2373 has the potential to play an important role in solving this global public health crisis,” said the company’s president and CEO Stanley Erck. But the positive news was offset by results that showed it was much less effective against a highly transmissible variant of the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — At least six people died and another nine were injured Thursday in a liquid nitrogen leak at a food-processing plant near the US city of Atlanta, police said. There were “5 fatalities confirmed on the scene” of the leak, police from Gainesville, Georgia told reporters, adding that 10 people were transported to hospital. One of those died in hospital, with three others in critical care. The leak did not cause […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore has moved a step closer to a driverless public transport network with the launch of a new trial of self-driving buses. Orderly and high-tech, the Asian city-state has become a testbed for self-driving vehicles and has developed home-grown technology while inviting foreign companies to trial their own. In a three-month trial launched this week, passengers can book a bus ride through an app that takes them around Singapore’s Science Park, a […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam recorded its first coronavirus outbreak in almost two months on Thursday, with more than 80 new cases reported as authorities began testing tens of thousands of people to contain the spread. The infections were detected in northern Vietnam, where one cluster has been linked to a case of the more contagious coronavirus variant first spotted in Britain. The figure was a new daily record for the communist nation of […]
