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23 more police personnel recover from COVID-19

(Eagle News) — Twenty-three more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP COVID-19 recovery total rose to 8531. Sixteen additional PNP COVID-19 cases pushed the total to 8860. Of these, 302 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the death toll remains at 27. The government has said uniformed personnel–including policemen—were among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program. The police are […]

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PHL COVID-19 cases reach 469,005; 266 more recover

(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 469,000 mark on Saturday, December 26, after the Department of Health reported 1406 additional cases. The DOH said of the total 469,005 cases, 28883 were active. Of these, 82.5 percent were mild, 9.9 percent asymptomatic, 4.8 percent critical, 2.5 percent severe, and 0.32 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported on Saturday were Bulacan with 100, Quezon City with 98, Rizal with […]

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PAGASA monitoring 2 LPAs; rainfall advisory in effect over M. Manila, other areas

(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring two low pressure areas. PAGASA said one LPA was estimated 95 km east of Catarman, Northern Samar, while the other was estimated 55 km west southwest of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. PAGASA said a yellow rainfall warning has been raised over Albay, Catanduanes, Sorsogon and Northern Samar, this time due to one of the LPAs. Light to moderate with at times heavy rains are […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Sunday, December 27

(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Sunday, December 27: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Passengers were advised to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled. Only passengers with confirmed flights will be allowed entry into the airport premises. The government has eased restrictions on travel, with domestic travel allowed but subject to the requirements set by the […]

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From the lab to the jab: how BioNTech-Pfizer won the vaccine race

by Hui Min NEO with Yannick PASQUET in Hamburg and Michelle FITZPATRICK and Yann SCHREIBER in Mainz Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this”. Sahin “had concluded from a publication describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan… that there was a high probability that a pandemic could be […]

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Biden warns of ‘devastating consequences’ of Trump block on pandemic relief

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Joe Biden warned Saturday of “devastating consequences” if President Donald Trump continues to delay signing a Covid-19 economic relief bill passed by Congress. Biden spoke out as millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire after Trump threw a long-awaited pandemic aid package into doubt — demanding lawmakers more than triple the $600 direct payments to US taxpayers. “This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences. Today, about […]

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Pres. Duterte directs creation of Task Force of medical experts to study infectious UK virus variant

Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL   (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]

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Spain receives first Covid vaccine doses

  MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain received its first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, a day before the country is set to begin its immunisation campaign. A refrigerated truck arrived at Pfizer’s warehouse in Guadalajara in central Spain with the shipment, three days after it left the company’s factory in Puurs in northeast Belgium, the health ministry said in a statement. After repackaging, the vaccines will be redistributed to Spain’s 17 autonomous […]

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First confirmed cases in Spain of British virus variant: regional govt

  MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Four cases of a coronavirus variant believed to be particularly infectious that recently emerged in Britain have been confirmed in Madrid, the regional government said Saturday, the first cases detected in Spain. All four cases involved people who recently arrived from the UK, the Madrid regional government’s deputy health chief Antonio Zapatero told a news conference. “The patients are not seriously ill, we know that this strain is more transmissible, […]

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Duterte recalls order for pilot testing of face-to-face classes due to threat of UK COVID strain

Says any face-to-face activity for schoolchildren also suspended   (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte recalled his previous order for a pilot testing of face-to-face classes all over the country because of the emergence of the new COVID-19 virus variant from the United Kingdom that is more infectious than previous strains. “Prudence tells us that we should confront this emerging infectious disease,” Duterte said in a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious […]

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First Covid vaccine doses arrive in France

  PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine were delivered early Saturday to the Paris hospital system’s central pharmacy outside the capital, an AFP journalist saw. After more than 62,000 Covid-19 deaths in France, shots are set to begin with people in two elderly care homes on Sunday, the same day the rest of the EU begins injections. A refrigerated truck brought the roughly 19,500 doses from the Pfizer factory […]

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PHL genome scientists on alert for UK variant as they analyze COVID virus strains in country

But UK variant not yet observed in present COVID virus samples in PHL, says PGC   (Eagle News) – Philippine scientists are monitoring and checking if the reported virus strain in the United Kingdom, variant B.1.1.7, — said to be more infectious than previous COVID-19 mutations — has already reached the country. The scientists at the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) are tracing if the current variants of the COVID-19 virus include that of the UK […]

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