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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 425,000 mark on Friday, Nov. 27, after the Department of Health reported 1631 additional cases. The DOH said of the total 425918 cases, 30047 were active. Of these, 84.3 percent were mild, 8.3 percent asymptomatic, 4.7 percent critical, 2.5 percent severe, and 0.26 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Quezon City with 116, Rizal with 101, Davao City with […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The British government said on Friday it has asked its independent medicines regulator to assess AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine as part of the formal approval process for the drug to be rolled out by the end of the year. More than 1.4 million people have died since the novel coronavirus emerged in China late last year, and three drug developers — Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca/Oxford University — are currently applying […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — One of the developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine announced Friday that India-based drugmaker Hetero will produce over 100 million doses of the jab. “Hetero, one of India’s leading generic pharmaceutical companies, have agreed to produce in India over 100 million doses per year of the world’s first registered vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection -– Sputnik V,” the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement, adding […]
(Eagle News) — The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has ordered the consolidation of all data from digital contact tracing applications into a single tracing data repository. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Friday, Nov. 27, StaySafe.ph is the government’s digital contact tracing application of choice and will be made mandatory for adoption and use in all national government agencies and instrumentalities as well as local government units. “Private establishments, […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign spouses of Filipinos and their children will be allowed entry into the country starting Dec. 7. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has also allowed the entry of former Filipino citizens, including their spouses and children traveling with them, regardless of age. Roque said they are required to have a pre-booked quarantine facility and undergo COVID-19 testing at a laboratory operating […]
(Eagle News) — A Quezon City court has convicted Benito and Wilma Tiamzon–believed to be top officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines–of serious illegal detention and kidnapping. Branch 216 Judge Alfonso Ruiz II sentenced the couple to reclusion perpetua or up to 40 years of imprisonment, and ordered them to pay Lt. Abraham Claro Casis P75,000 for moral damages, P75000 as civil indemnity, and P75000 for exemplary damages. The judge said the monetary […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Thursday urged African countries to improve their capacity to vaccinate populations against Covid-19, warning the continent was still “far from ready” for mass immunization. With three coronavirus vaccines now showing efficacy rates of 70 percent or more, the UN body called on Africa to “ramp up” preparations for “the continent’s largest ever immunization drive”. The African region is so far only 33 percent ready to […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany on Friday saw its total number of coronavirus infections pass one million, the Robert Koch Institute for disease control said. The institute recorded more than 22,000 new daily cases, pushing the country’s total beyond the one million mark. Germany had largely contained the spread of the virus in the spring but has been hit hard by a second wave of infections. The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care nationwide […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would leave the White House if Joe Biden is officially confirmed the winner of the US election, but he repeated that he may never concede defeat. Trump has made an unprecedented attempt to defy the results of the November 3 vote, spreading wild theories about stolen ballots and launching baseless legal challenges that have been thrown out by courts across the country. Answering […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Northern Samar on Friday, Nov. 27. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 4:24 a.m., had its epicenter 18 kilometers northeast of Catarman. It had a depth of 17 kilometers, and was tectonic in origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among police personnel have breached the 8,000 mark. The Philippine National Police said the additional 31 COVID-19 cases pushed the total to 8,008 as of Thursday night. Of these, 381 were active. Forty-nine additional recoveries pushed the recovery total to 7601. No additional death was reported, which means the death toll remains at 26. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The PNP has said all […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Presidential Adviser on Clark Programs and Projects. The former President will receive an annual salary of P1. In a statement, Arroyo vowed to transform Clark into “Asia’s economic powerhouse in the 2020s.” She noted that “in this time of pandemic and the worst global recession in nearly a century, the rapid harnessing of the Clark-Subic service logistics corridor for jobs, investment and […]
