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(Eagle News)–An additional 968 public utility jeepneys can start plying Metro Manila streets once the modified enhanced community quarantine is lifted, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board said. According to the LTFRB, the following routes will be opened: T115 Malabon – Monumento via Acacia T116 Cielito- Novaliches via Zabarte T117 Novaliches – Deparo via Susano T118 SM Fairview – Lagro Subd. Loop T119 Meycauayan, Bulacan – Bignay T120 Pantranco – Project 8 via Roosevelt […]
by Rouba EL HUSSEINI Agence France-Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — “I don’t want to die.” Those were the first words Hiba’s six-year-old son screamed after the massive explosion at Beirut port sent shards of glass flying around their house. The blast a week ago that injured around 1,000 children and temporarily displaced 100,000 according to the UN had the magnitude of an earthquake. The mental shock it caused among Beirut’s youngest was just as powerful. […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand locked down nursing homes nationwide Wednesday after a 102-day streak without the coronavirus ended, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the outbreak could force her to postpone next month’s general election. Ardern said authorities were scrambling to trace anyone who had been in contact with four Auckland residents who tested positive Tuesday, ending the dream run in which the virus had been contained at New Zealand’s borders. A […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government has ordered the deployment of policemen to remittance centers as the distribution of the second tranche of financial assistance from the Social Amelioration Program wraps up. Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said Interior Secretary Eduardo Año gave the order to Joint Task Force COVID Shield chief Police Lieutenant General Guillermo Eleazar amid reports from field offices there were long lines in some remittance centers. “We advise them […]
(Eagle News)–The Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Visayas and Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, scattered rainshowers are expected in the two island groups. Within 24 hours, a big part of Luzon, including Metro Manila, will have good weather, with partly cloudy to cloudy skies and only isolated rainshowers expected. Bicol Region, Mindoro, Romblon and Marinduque will, on the other hand, have cloudy skies and rains. PAGASA said […]
(Eagle News)–Forty-six Bureau of Immigration personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. Immigration chief Jaime Morente said of the 46, nine have recovered while 37 are still housed in government-accredited quarantine facilities. One, he said, was at present recovering in a hospital. “The good news is that, so far, none of our employees have succumbed to the virus,” Morente said, noting that they were “doing our best in seeing to it that health protocols aimed at […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Aug. 12: MIAA said flight schedules may be subject to changes. Passengers are advised to get confirmation of their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled as only those with the confirmation will be allowed to enter the airport premises. Metro Manila and other parts of Calabarzon are now under a modified enhanced community quarantine until Aug. […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The death toll from Beirut’s massive August 4 explosion has climbed to 171, a health ministry spokesman told AFP on Tuesday. The new figure, up from 160, came exactly one week since the mega-blast ravaged swathes of the Lebanese capital, wounding more than 6,000 and temporarily displacing 300,000 people from their homes. © Agence France-Presse
by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Although none of the coronavirus vaccines under development has proved its efficacy yet in clinical trials, at least 5.7 billion doses have been pre-ordered around the world. First shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine created by Western laboratories have often been snapped up by the United States. Five vaccines — three Western and two Chinese — are in Phase 3 efficacy trials involving thousands of people. In a […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A pair of pandas on loan from China to a Canadian zoo are facing a food shortage as their supply of fresh bamboo dries up, officials warned. And plans to send them back to China, where bamboo is abundant and easy to access, according to a Calgary Zoo statement, have been stalled by pandemic-era changes to import and quarantine regulations. Er Shun, a female, and Da Mao, a male, each require […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $1.5 billion contract with US biotech company Moderna for 100 million doses of an eventual coronavirus vaccine, the sixth such deal reached since May. “I’m pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Moderna to manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of their coronavirus vaccine candidate,” Trump said at a White House news conference. “The federal government will own these vaccine […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico said Tuesday it had signed deals with three pharmaceutical companies from the United States and China to carry out clinical trials of potential coronavirus vaccines in the hard-hit country. The Latin American nation, which has the world’s third-highest COVID-19 death toll, said that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, part of Johnson & Johnson, CanSino Biologics and Walvax Biotechnology, would begin Phase 3 trials from September. They will join French company Sanofi, which […]
