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Cloudy skies, isolated rainshowers expected today

(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said  partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms will be experienced over Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands in particular. PAGASA said this was due to the southwesterly windflow affecting extreme Northern Luzon. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms are expected over the provinces of Isabela, […]

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Israel tests 100,000 to prevent pandemic ‘second wave’

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israel has launched a campaign to test 100,000 people for novel coronavirus antibodies as the country prepares for a possible “second wave” of cases, a top official said Thursday. The initiative is one of the world’s largest such schemes and aims to test Israel’s “collective immunity” against the COVID-19 disease. “We have started… It should not be too long before we see some interesting trends,” said Yair Schindel, a senior official […]

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Cancer patients twice as likely to die from COVID-19: study

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — People with cancer are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those without it, a large study published Thursday found. The data on more than 900 patients in the US, Canada and Spain which appeared in a paper in The Lancet, found that mortality increased the further the cancer had progressed. Cancer patients with decreased ability to carry out daily life tasks were more at risk than […]

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Pharma chiefs see coronavirus vaccine by year-end, but challenges ‘daunting’

by Nina LARSON GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Pharmaceutical company executives said Thursday that one or several COVID-19 vaccines could begin rolling out before 2021, but warned the challenges would be “daunting” as it was estimated that 15 billion doses would be needed to halt the pandemic. Well over 100 labs around the world are scrambling to come up with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, including 10 that have made it to the clinical trial […]

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10% of diabetics die within days of coronavirus hospitalization: study

PARIS, France (AFP) — One in 10 diabetics with coronavirus dies within seven days of hospital admission, according to a study of more than 1,300 patients published Friday in the journal Diabetologia. Two-thirds of the patients were men, and the average age across both sexes was 70, the study found. “The presence of diabetic complications and increased age increase the risk of death,” the researchers said in a statement. “Increased BMI” — body mass index, […]

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Qatar denies Gulf bloc exit rumors

DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar denied on Thursday that it plans to quit the Gulf Cooperation Council as it prepares to mark three years of isolation led by the regional bloc’s heavyweight Saudi Arabia. However, the gas-rich state cautioned that the effort by three of the GCC’s six members to isolate Doha economically and politically meant people in the region were “doubting and questioning” the organization. Rumors of Qatar’s imminent departure from the GCC, founded […]

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New US jobless claims at 2.12 million as layoffs pass 40 mn

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Another 2.12 million people filed for unemployment in the United States last week, pushing total layoffs since the start of the coronavirus crisis to more than 40 million, a level not seen since the Great Depression, the Labor Department said. The new filings, however, showed that the pace of the layoffs was subsiding as the US economy slowly begins to reopen. © Agence France-Presse

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Pres. Duterte places NCR, more Luzon areas under GCQ, as other areas shift to Modified GCQ starting June 1

Davao City to remain under GCQ   (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Thursday night, May 28, that Metro Manila will be placed under General Community Quarantine starting June 1, and that three other regions in Luzon — Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, CALABARZON — will also be placed under GCQ. In his televised address to the Filipino nation on Thursday night, May 28, President Duterte also said that the provinces of Pangasinan and […]

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Roche, Gilead to test drug cocktail against severe COVID-19

ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP) — Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Thursday that it is planning to test whether a mix of its arthritis drug tocilizumab and Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir could treat severe cases of COVID-19 effectively. Roche said in a statement that it had joined forces with Gilead for a global phase III clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of using tocilizumab — sold under the brand names Actemra and RoAcemtra — combined with […]

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Iran dismisses ‘desperate’ US move to end nuclear waivers

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Tehran on Thursday dismissed the impact of what it called Washington’s “desperate attempt” to end sanction waivers for nations that remain in the Iran nuclear accord. The United States had made the move in a bid “to distract public opinion from its continued defeats at the hands of Iran,” said Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran. “Ending waivers for nuclear cooperation with Iran… has effectively no […]

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China approves plan to impose Hong Kong security law

by Laurie CHEN BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s parliament approved plans Thursday to impose a security law on Hong Kong that has ratcheted up tensions with the US and sparked new protests over fears the city is losing its special freedoms. The vote by the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress (NPC) came hours after the United States revoked the special status conferred on Hong Kong, paving the way for the territory to be stripped of trading […]

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Metro Manila, other areas under thunderstorm advisory

(Eagle News)–A thunderstorm advisory has been hoisted over Metro Manila and other areas. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds are also expected over Tarlac, Rizal, Pampanga, Bulacan, Bataan and Zambales within the next two hours. PAGASA said these conditions are being experienced in Carranglan, Pantabangan, SanJose, Lupao in Nueva Ecija; Tagaytay, Mendez, Silang in Cavite; Binan, Santa Rosa, Cabuyao, Calamba, Alaminos in Laguna; […]

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