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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has set a third straight daily record for new Covid-19 infections, notching more than 127,000 cases, John Hopkins University reported Friday. And the death toll as of 8:30 pm (0130 GMT) over the past 24 hours was 1,149, the Baltimore-based university said. The outbreak has been surging for weeks across the country, with the Midwest worst-hit even as the number of new diagnoses were approaching springtime […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer the worst economic and health impact from the coronavirus, the World Bank said Friday, forecasting a nearly 8.0 percent drop in regional GDP. “Our region is suffering the worst economic and health impacts of Covid-19 of anywhere in the world,” according to Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, the Bank’s regional vice president. He said the findings in the report “calls for clarity on how […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The UK on Wednesday reported 6,178 new coronavirus cases, a marked jump in the daily infection rate that comes a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled new nationwide restrictions. It follows a rise of 4,926 the day before and brings the total confirmed cases in Britain since the pandemic hit to 409,729. With a further 37 deaths reported in the past 24 hours, 41,862 people in Britain who tested […]
(Eagle News) – The total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 10 million while deaths were now more than half a million as virus cases continued to increase in almost all countries affected by the pandemic. Based on the data of the Johns Hopkins University as of Monday, June 29, 7:33 a.m., (Philippine time) global COVID-19 cases reached 10,104,045 while COVID deaths reached 500,882. The United States still leads countries with the most […]
More than 97 percent of active cases are mild (Eagle News) — The total coronavirus cases reached 26,420 as of 4 p.m., Monday, June 15, as recoveries also increased to more than 6,000. The Department of Health (DOH) said that 490 confirmed cases were added today: 348 were fresh cases, while 142 were late cases. Of the fresh cases, 131 came from Metro Manila, 79 came from Central Visayas, while 138 came from other […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country has reached 14035 after the Department of Health reported 258 additional cases. Of the new cases, the DOH said 75 percent or 195 cases came from Metro Manila; 20 percent or 51 cases from other areas; and 5 percent or 12 cases from repatriates. Recoveries rose to 3249, with the addition of 72. The death toll stands at 868, including the five new ones. […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the country neared the 7000 mark on Thursday, April 23, after 271 new cases were reported. According to the Department of Health, of the 6981 overall COVID-19 cases, 722 were recoveries and 462 were deaths. The 722 includes the 29 new recoveries and 16 new deaths. The DOH has said it was still early to say the Philippines was flattening the COVID-19 curve, but that there […]
(Eagle News) — More patients are recovering from the coronavirus disease with the addition of 56 new recoveries as of Sunday, April 19, bringing the total to 572 as total confirmed cases rose to 6,259 because of widened mass testing, according to the Department of Health (DOH). The DOH reports 172 new confirmed cases as of 4 p.m., while only 12 new deaths were recorded bringing the total number of COVID-19 related fatalities to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The true number of COVID-19 cases in California’s Silicon Valley is at least 50 times higher than the official figure, according to a preliminary study that took blood samples from a group of residents and tested them for viral antibodies. Stanford researchers used Facebook to recruit 3,300 volunteers from Santa Clara County and estimated that between 2.5 to 4.1 percent of the population had been infected, which is 50 […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The coronavirus has killed another 186 people in France, the health minister said on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 860. Health Minister Olivier Veran said that 19,856 people had been registered as testing positive for the virus in France, with a total of 8,675 hospitalized of whom 2,082 people are in intensive care. Officials believe that the published number of those infected largely underestimates the real figure, […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 15 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the country’s total to 217. The new cases are identified on as Patients No. 203 to 217 (PH203 to PH217) by the DOH which gave no additional details about the patients. In a bulletin issued at 12 noon today, Thursday, March 19, the DOH also announced the recovery of Patient 20 (PH20), a 48 year old Filipino male from Cavite. PH20, […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Two cases of COVID-19 have been registered at the World Health Organization headquarters, a spokesman said Tuesday. The WHO, based in the Swiss city of Geneva, is coordinating the international response to the new coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 180,000 people and killed more than 7,000 across 145 countries. “We do have two staff confirmed with symptoms of COVID-19,” spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters at a virtual press […]
