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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US said Friday it was purchasing 100 million more doses of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by Moderna, amid reports the government passed on the opportunity to secure more supply of the Pfizer jab. The agreement brings the total number of Moderna doses bought by the US to 200 million, enough to immunize 100 million people with the two-shot regimen. “Securing another 100 million doses from Moderna by June […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s Russian branch said Friday it would use part of Russia’s homemade Sputnik V vaccine in further clinical trials. “Today we announce a clinical trial programme to assess safety and immunogenicity of a combination of AZD1222, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and Sputnik V, developed by Russian Gamaleya Research institute,” AstraZeneca said in a statement published on its website in English and Russian. The pharmaceutical company said […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-six more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP recovery total breached the 8,000 mark, and is now at 8010. Twenty-eight additional cases pushed the total to 8505. Of these, the PNP said 468 were active. No additional death was reported, which means the death toll remains at 27. The police are still among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police chief Debold Sinas has ordered a manhunt for those behind an ambush of a police team on administrative mission in Samar. In a statement, the PNP said it has mobilized tactical and maneuver forces in Eastern Visayas on a province-wide manhunt for those responsible for the ambush of Police Corporal Earl Hembra, Pat Joseph Ricky Gadores Gacgacao, and Corporal Jerome J Distrajo, all members of the Marabut Municipal Police […]
(Eagle News) – -Two key players of a drug distribution network operating in northern Manila Manila were arrested by police on Thursday night, the Philippine National Police said on Saturday, December 12. The PNP said also seized from Ernesto Magalang Francisco and Genelyn dela Torre Mararac were 1.5 kilograms of shabu worth P10.2 million, based on a report from National Capital Region Police Office Acting Chief, Police Brig Gen Vicente Danao Jr. The PNP said […]
(Eagle News) — Over 400 more Filipinos abroad have recovered from COVID-19. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the 419 new recoveries pushed the COVID-19 recovery total among overseas Filipinos to 7997. Over 500, or 591, new cases, however, also pushed the total COVID-19 cases to 12,290. Thirteen additional deaths led to an increase in the death toll to 860. “The reported increases are due to belated reports in one country in Asia and the […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Sultan Kudarat early Saturday, Dec. 12. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 3:06 a.m., had its epicenter 42 kilometers northwest of Lebak. It had a depth of 10 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
Rest of PHL affected by easterlies, PAGASA says (Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. PAGASA said as a result, Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Saturday, Dec. 12: Flight schedules may change anytime, MIAA said. The government has eased restrictions on travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with domestic flights allowed but subject to the requirements of the local government unit that has jurisdiction over the area of destination. The Department of Tourism has said it was eyeing shouldering half of the cost of […]
PHL clinical trial application of China firms Sinovac, Clover BioPharma also pass vaccine evaluation, ethics board review, says DOST (Eagle News) – The Philippines will start getting the COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac by the first quarter of next year, Malacanang said, even as the Department of Science and Technology announced that another China-based pharmaceutical firm, aside from Sinovac, had also passed evaluation for clinical trials in the country. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that Sinovac Pharmaceuticals […]
by Alexandra Megia Eagle News QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Democracy. From the Greek word dēmokratiā, which was coined from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”)— A governing political system which literally translates to “rule by the people.” Popularized by Greek city-state Athens in 500 BCE, many countries today, practice this form of governing system—including the Philippines. Whatever your political stance may be, democracy hinges on the idea that the people will govern themselves. Educate […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 447,000 mark on Friday, December 11, after the Department of Health reported 1504 additional cases. The DOH said of the 447,039 total cases, 6.5 percent or 29,001 were active. Of these, 85. 8 percent were mild, 6.7 percent asymptomatic, 4.8 percent critical, 2.4 percent severe, and 0.25 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 122, Rizal with […]
