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by Beiyi Seow and Jing Xuan Teng BEIJING, China (AFP) — An expert mission to China to probe the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was in disarray Wednesday after Beijing denied entry to the World Health Organization team at the last minute despite months of painstaking negotiations. Ten experts were due to arrive in China this week for the delicate, highly politicized task of establishing how and where the virus jumped from animals to humans. […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The EU’s drug regulator met for the second time this week on Wednesday to discuss whether to authorize Moderna’s coronavirus jab as criticism mounts of the bloc’s slow vaccine rollout. The approval of a second vaccine after Pfizer-BioNTech’s got the green light in December would be a shot in the arm for Europe, which is lagging behind the United States, Britain and Israel. The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency brought forward […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Two Indonesian militants linked to a 2019 church blast in the Philippines have been shot dead by police, authorities said Wednesday, as officers arrested scores of pro-Islamic State radicals. The shootings came as Indonesia’s counter-terrorism squad, Densus 88, raided a hideout of extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Sulawesi island’s Makassar city, they said. Two suspects were gunned down when they “resisted arrest” and attacked officers, police said, adding that […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — An 89-year-old woman died and another 18 pensioners were hospitalized, some with severe burns, after a fire ripped through an elderly care residence in Spain, rescuers said Wednesday. The blaze began late on Tuesday at the care home in the southern city of Seville, with some 170 police, medics and rescuers involved in the operation in which another 78 residents had to be rehoused, the emergency services said in a statement. […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 480,000 mark on Wednesday, January 6, after the Department of Health reported 1047 additional cases. The DOH said of the 480,737 total cases, 22,690 were active. Of these, 81.8 percent were mild, 8.5 percent asymptomatic, 6 percent critical, 3.2 percent severe, and 0.52 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 79, Quezon City with 58, Laguna with […]
40 passengers in PR300 flight manifesto being contacted by PHL authorities (Eagle News) — Philippine authorities have started contact tracing of all passengers in the Philippine Airlines flight PR300 that arrived in Hong Kong on December 22 which Hong Kong health officials had identified as the plane which carried a traveler who was said to have been tested positive for the new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire disclosed this in a […]
(Eagle News) — The traveler from the Philippines Hong Kong authorities said tested positive for the UK COVID-19 variant presented a COVID-19 test that yielded negative results, Philippine Airlines said on Wednesday, January 6. In an advisory, PAL said the negative COVID-19 test showed by the passenger–whom it did not identify–was a requirement of the Hong Kong government for arriving travelers. PAL said it has turned over to the Philippine Bureau of Quarantine “the necessary […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Travel has been restricted to a northern Chinese city of 11 million people and schools closed as authorities Wednesday moved to snuff out a cluster of Covid-19 after dozens were infected. Ten major highways leading into the city of Shijiazhuang, around 300 kilometers (200 miles) south of Beijing, have been closed and a bus terminus was closed in an attempt to prevent the virus from spreading beyond the city in Hebei […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health and the Philippine Genome Center on Wednesday, January 6, said the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus has not yet been detected in the country. The DOH and the PGC issued the statement after Hong Kong said a traveler from the Philippines had been found to have B.1.1.7, which is said to be up to 70 percent more infectious. According to their joint statement, based on the lineage […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, January 6, said his credit card was hacked and used to purchase P1 million worth of food. “May nag order ng P1M worth of food sa Food Panda in less than an hour. Ano yan lauriat para sa buong barangay???” Gatchalian said in a Tweet. A screenshot attached by the senator in his Tweet showed the transactions were worth between P96,265 and P356,517. The transactions were done […]
(Eagle News) — Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Danilo Lim has passed away. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Lim died before 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Lim’s death came eight days after he announced he tested positive for COVID-19. He was 65 years old. “MMDA Chair Lim served the Duterte administration with professionalism, competence and integrity,” Roque said. “He would be dearly missed,” he added. Lim, a retired military officer, was appointed as MMDA chair in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican former US president George W. Bush will attend the inauguration of Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Washington on January 20, his chief of staff said Tuesday. “President and Mrs. Bush look forward to returning to the Capitol for the swearing in of President Biden and Vice President Harris,” Freddy Ford tweeted. “Witnessing the peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of our democracy that never gets old,” […]
