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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country reached 478,761 on Monday, January 4, after the Department of Health reported 959 additional cases. According to the DOH, the decrease in the number of additional cases reported was due to a decrease in the number of patients seen in COVID-19 laboratories during the New Year. Of the 478,761 total COVID-19 cases, 21,219 were active. Of these, 81.7 percent were mild, 7.9 percent asymptomatic, 6.4 percent critical, […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — An 82-year-old man on Monday became the first person in the world to receive AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s new Covid jab outside a clinical trial, raising hopes the fight against a resurgent virus will accelerate. Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager from Oxford in south central England, received the jab at the city’s Churchill Hospital, the National Health Service said. Sam Foster, chief nursing officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang affirmed travel restrictions in 21 countries, including the United States, which have reported the presence of the more infections COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 that was first detected in the United Kingdom. Aside from the UK and the US, other countries included in the list, which the Philippines had imposed a travel restriction on, are the following: Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Australia, Israel, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, […]
by Anna MALPAS with AFP bureaus LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain on Monday began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the disease worldwide, while China raced to inoculate millions with a homegrown prophylactic. Britain started the new drive with 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as it struggled to control a severe wave of infections that has threatened to overwhelm the public health system and prompted the government to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s population fell for the first time in 2020, with more people dying than were born, the government said Monday, warning that towns in poor regions faced a “crisis of extinction”. The world’s 12th-largest economy has one of its longest life expectancies and one of its lowest birthrates, a combination that presents a looming demographic disaster. As of December 31, South Korea had 51,829,023 people, down 20,838 from a […]
(Eagle News) –Police are in hot pursuit of the suspects in the roadside bomb attack on the convoy of South Upi, Maguindanao Mayor Reynalbert O. Insular on Sunday, January 4. The Philippine National Police made the announcement a day after the suspects detonated an improvised explosive device in Pandan and Pilar that left one dead and four others hurt. The PNP identified the fatality as Thelmo Divinagracia Sase, 28; while the injured were John Tumbaga, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Nancy Pelosi, the only woman to serve as US Speaker of the House, was narrowly re-elected to the position Sunday in a deeply divided new Congress that convened in the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Pelosi, 80, faced a scare when five fellow Democrats defected and voted “present” or for someone else during the floor vote. But the woman who is third in line to the presidency secured […]
PERTH, Australia (AFP) — An out-of-control bushfire threatened lives and homes in Australia’s west coast city of Perth Monday, with locals told to shelter in place from toxic fumes. Residents in several suburbs south of Perth have been warned to be on watch as around 150 firefighters battled a blaze which has razed more than 230 hectares since Saturday. The local emergency department downgraded the fire from earlier “emergency” level, but warned there was still […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore’s economy suffered its worst ever annual contraction in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the city-state’s vital trade and tourism sectors, official data showed Monday. But the 5.8 percent decline was not as bad as feared — official forecasts had predicted a fall of up to 6.5 percent — as economic activity picked up with the easing of curbs. The financial hub plunged into its first recession since the 2008 […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Two-time MVP Stephen Curry got his swagger back on Sunday night, scoring a career-high 62 points as the Golden State Warriors outgunned the Portland Trail Blazers 137-122. It was just like old times for Curry, arguably the greatest shooter in the history of the NBA. Curry, who played just five games in the coronavirus-shortened 2019-20 season due to a broken hand, drained eight of 16 from beyond the arc […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriated over 300,000 Filipinos in 2020. The DFA said of the 327,511 overseas Filipinos repatriated last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 231,537 or 70.7 percent were land-based, coming from at least 90 countries. Almost 100,000, or 95,974, were seafarers, from more than 150 cruise ships, oil tankers, and other bulk vessels. Below is the breakdown of the repatriates traveling or transiting through the following regions based on […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Thousands of people were lining up in Beijing to receive a Covid-19 vaccine as China races to innoculate millions before the Chinese New Year mass travel season in February. More than 73,000 people in the Chinese capital have received the first dose of the vaccine over the last couple of days, state media reported Sunday, including community workers and bus drivers. Health authorities on New Year’s Eve granted “conditional” approval to […]
