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But new COVID cases in Metro Manila decreasing (Eagle News) – Rising COVID-19 cases outside Metro Manila is driving the renewed increase in virus cases in the country, according to OCTA Research. This came about as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 32,744 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, January 21, with new COVID-19 deaths also rising to 156. This is the second straight day that new virus cases have increased. Those who recovered were […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines’ new COVID-19 cases reached 31,173 on Thursday, January 20, again increasing after four straight days of declining new cases and after two days that new COVID-19 cases were below 30,000. New recoveries reached 26,298 while new COVID deaths reached 110. Before this, recoveries were already increasing and even exceeded new cases in the last two days. On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, new recoveries reached a high of 36,611 while […]
New COVID-19 cases reach 22,958, much lower than previous day’s 28,471 (Eagle News) — For the second straight day, new COVID-19 recoveries exceeded the number of new virus cases on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. New recoveries reached 36,611 while new cases were only 22,958. The new recoveries on Wednesday, January 19, were even higher compared to Tuesday’s (Jan. 18) number of 34,892. The new cases today were also lower than the previous day’s record […]
Number of new cases is also below 30k for the first time in almost a week (Eagle News) – The number of COVID-19 recoveries on Tuesday, January 18, reached 34,892, the first time that the new recoveries were higher than new COVID-19 cases this year. The new COVID-19 cases were 28,471, the first time in almost a week that new COVID-19 cases were not above 30,000. The last time that new COVID-19 cases were […]
(Eagle News) – Because of “very high transmission rate and high infection rate” of COVID-19 in the National Capital Region, the Department of Health said that contact tracing is a challenge and is not prioritized anymore. Health Undersecretary and Spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said that “contact tracing is not a priority intervention anymore” because of rising infection rates in Metro Manila. The DOH official said that the shift in strategy from less tracing to more […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The number of Covid-19 cases soared by nearly two thirds across the world this week, but pandemic-linked deaths continued to drop. Here is the global state of play from an AFP database: – Nearly two million daily cases – The average number of new daily coronavirus cases increased to 1.94 million, a 64 percent increase compared to the previous week, according to an AFP count to Thursday. The confirmed […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — South Africa’s Covid-19 infections surged to a record three million on Friday as a new wave driven by the Omicron variant rips through parts of the country, official figures showed. The government on Friday reported 16,055 new cases over a 24-hour period, taking the cumulative laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,004,203. “This increase represents a 24.3 percent positivity rate,” the government run National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said in a […]
Total active cases at 17,853 or 0.6 percent of total COVID cases (Eagle News) – The Philippines reported 863 new COVID-19 cases, the second lowest number of new cases in a day for this month. The single-day lowest number of new cases was 849 recorded last Nov. 16. Total active cases reached 17,853 as of Friday, November 26, or just 0.6 percent of total COVID cases for the third straight day. This is so […]
Total active cases only 0.7 percent of total COVID-19 cases reported since the pandemic began (Eagle News) — The Philippines posted only 984 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Nov. 22, as the country continued to show gains in its fight against the virus pandemic. The COVID-19 positivity rate is at 2.8 percent for the second straight day, the lowest so far since the pandemic began March last year. The country’s aggressive vaccination rollout and […]
by Sophie MAKRIS and Femke COLBORNE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany needs further coronavirus restrictions to combat a record surge in infections and “get through this winter”, would-be chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, calling a meeting with state premiers to decide new curbs. The country recorded 50,196 new cases in the past 24 hours on Thursday, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) health agency — the first time the […]
Percentage of active cases at only 1.2 percent, the lowest so far since the pandemic (Eagle News) — The Philippines continued to post more than 2,000 new cases for the second straight day on Saturday, Nov. 6, as the country breached more than 2.8 million total cases, majority of which are recoveries. On Saturday, there were 2,656 new COVID-19 cases reported by the Department of Health. On Friday, Nov. 5, new cases posted were […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Covid-19 pandemic continued to pick up speed this week in Europe, bucking an improvement observed in the rest of the world. Here is the global state of play based on an AFP database. – Slight global spike – The number of new daily cases increased globally for a third week in a row, by a slight one percent to 438,000 infections, according to an AFP tally to Thursday. However, […]
