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NEWARK, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Joe Biden received a Covid-19 vaccine live on television Monday in a campaign to boost Americans’ confidence in the jabs. The 78-year-old incoming president got the Pfizer vaccine at the Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. His wife Jill received the shot earlier, the presidential transition team said. Biden told Americans “there’s nothing to worry about” when they get vaccinated and that in the meantime they should keep wearing […]
(Eagle News) — A magnitude 4.9 quake hit 20 kilometers northwest of General Nakar, Quezon province at 2:14 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The tectonic quake was 15 kilometers deep and was also felt in Metro Manila. In its bulletin, Phivolcs said it is expecting aftershocks but no damages. The quake was also recorded by the US Geological Survey at magnitude 4.9. The USGS said its epicenter was […]
HONOLULU, United States (AFP) — The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted, authorities said, warning of a possible “significant emission” of volcanic ash into the atmosphere. “An eruption has commenced within Kilauea’s summit caldera,” shortly after 9:30 pm local time (0730 GMT), said the United States Geological Survey (USGS). “The situation is rapidly evolving and HVO (Hawaiian Volcano Observatory) will issue another statement when more information is available.” Images posted by the Hawaii Volcanoes […]
(Eagle News) — On or before December 30, the country’s vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., will start negotiating with the US-based biotech firm, Moderna, so the Philippines can get vaccine doses for its mass vaccination campaign next year. This was according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr, in an interview with CNN Philippines’ ‘The Source.’ Galvez is going to start negotiations with Moderna “on or before Wednesday next week,” Locsin said in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Tarlac has indicted a police officer who was caught shooting two of his neighbors, a mother and her son, on video for murder. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the information for two counts was filed against Jonel Nuezca before the Tarlac court today. Nuezca, a police master sergeant assigned at the Paranaque City Police Crime Laboratory, shot Sonya Gregorio, 52, and Frank Anthony Gregorio, 25, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea banned gatherings of more than four people in the capital and surrounding areas Monday as the country recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the epidemic began. While South Korea has suffered relatively lightly compared to other nations, officials said a surge in infections had left hospitals in the capital region with a chronic shortage of intensive care beds. The country reported 926 new coronavirus cases Monday, […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 461,000 mark on Monday, December 21, after the Department of Health reported 1721 additional cases. The DOH said of the 461,505 total cases, 23341 were active. Of these, 82.2 percent were mild, 8.5 percent asymptomatic, 5.9 percent were critical, 3 percent severe, and 0.34 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 151, Quezon City with 142, […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong on Monday said it would ban all flights from Britain following the discovery of a new and highly infectious strain of the coronavirus there. “From midnight there will be no more passenger flights arriving in Hong Kong from the United Kingdom,” health secretary Sophia Chan told reporters. Anyone arriving in Hong Kong who has been the UK in the last 14 days will also have to undergo a […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Oriental early Monday, December 21. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 3:07 a.m. It had its epicenter 141 kilometers southeast of Tarragona. According to PHIVOLCS, the earthquake had a depth of nine kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive the Covid-19 shot in public once those in his age group are in line to be vaccinated, he said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Canada began vaccinating people in high-risk categories — including frontline health care workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities — on December 14, with a relatively limited supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “Absolutely,” Trudeau told the CBC public […]
(Eagle News) –Rains are still expected in parts of the country today, Dec. 21, even as Tropical Depression “Krovanh” (formerly “Vicky”) continues to move away from Kalayaan islands outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to heavy rains are expected over Kalayaan Islands, Babuyan and Calayan Islands, the eastern portion of mainland Cagayan Valley, Aurora, and the northern portion of Quezon. Light to moderate with at […]
SUVA, Fiji (AFP) — Disease threatens to worsen an already desperate situation in Fiji, an official warned Sunday, where thousands of lives have been devastated in the wake of the deadly super cyclone Yasa. Agencies rushed food and clean water to areas where the storm smashed into the northern islands of the South Pacific nation on Thursday night, forcing more than 23,000 people to flee their homes. Four people died and entire villages were wiped […]
