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https://youtu.be/VZR52whAyeE (Eagle News) – Some 116,000 health care workers in Metro Manila have so far registered for the country’s Phase 1 masterlisting of those who will be among the first to receive vaccines against COVID-19. This is just the initial list. More will be added as the registration is still ongoing, said Dr. Nikka Hao of the COVID-19 surveillance and quick action unit. “We are in the process of master listing for group a1 or […]
by Ben PERRY Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday became the latest oil major to reveal huge annual losses as the coronavirus pandemic slashed energy demand and prices in 2020. Shell dived into a net loss of $21.7 billion (18.1 billion euros) last year as factories shut and planes were grounded. The Anglo-Dutch group’s loss compared with a net profit of $15.8 billion in 2019, the company said in […]
Editor’s Note: The following is the full text of the “Opening remarks by Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis at the press conference on the transparency and authorization mechanism for exports of COVID-19 vaccines” on Jan. 29, 2021. (Also see: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_21_312) “Today the Commission has adopted an implementing Regulation making the export of certain products subject to an export authorisation. So this Regulation concerns the transparency and export of COVID-19 vaccines. The protection and safety […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The EU’s police agency on Monday warned travellers to watch for organised crime gangs selling fake Covid-negative certificates at airports, sometimes for as much as 300 euros each. The warning from Europol comes after police busted several suspects selling forged certificates declaring people Covid-19 negative at airports in Britain and France, online and through mobile messaging chat groups in Spain and the Netherlands. Many EU countries and others now […]
https://youtu.be/bNfvZMmdJIM In Texas, they like to do things in a big way and immunizing people against Covid-19 is no exception. Eagle News correspondent Jane Kathleen Gregorio tells us about a huge vaccination effort being launched in the Coastal Bend region of the state. Watch details in this report from Eagle News International prepared by Eagle News Service’s North America bureaus (Eagle News Service)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Hundreds of people took part Sunday in fresh protests across Brazil against President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with many demanding his resignation or impeachment. Covid-19 has claimed more than 223,000 lives in Brazil, second only to the United States, where more than 440,000 have died. Some 200 people gathered in central Brasilia, holding signs and banners saying “Bolsonaro Out” and “Impeachment Now,” while scores of autos drove slowly […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s economy contracted sharply by 11 percent in 2020 due to the upheaval triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Statistics Institute said in a first estimate published Friday. The figure is largely in line with the fall of 11.2 percent predicted by Spain’s government although the International Monetary Fund had seen a sharper contraction of 12.8 percent. France also saw its economy shrink by 8.3 percent in 2020, Germany […]
(Eagle News) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that three clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines which it had earlier approved are about to begin in the country. These are the Phase 3 clinical trials for the vaccines developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals of Johnson and Johnson, Clover Biopharmaceuticals, and Sinovac. “So wala na po tayong pending ngayon na mga applications for clinical trials with FDA, and all these three clinical trials have been […]
by Agence France Presse Bureaus WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States demanded a “robust and clear” international probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, as a team of World Health Organization experts in China waited Thursday for the green light to begin its long-awaited Covid-19 probe. The call came as coronavirus infections shot past 100 million and governments scrambled to get their hands on scarce vaccine doses, with a bitter row […]
https://youtu.be/bTA7MsLG0s4 (Eagle News) — The inter-agency Task Force on COVID-19 will consider the attack rate of the new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7, in its study of the quarantine protocol classification to be imposed in various parts of the country starting February. This was noted by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in a recent press briefing. While there are still a few cases of COVID-19 detected with the variant B.1.1.7, Malacanang said that because the variant is […]
DOH expanding contact tracing efforts in CAR as 615 contacts identified (Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that it has traced “three major clusters of infections” in Bontoc province which all have the so-called UK variant, B.1.1.7. This was discovered by the DOH as it was trying to trace the source of the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus in Bontoc where at least 12 UK variant cases have been already detected by […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday lashed “vaccine nationalism,” accusing rich countries of bulk-buying coronavirus vaccines and hoarding them to the detriment of others. Addressing the all-virtual 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF), Ramaphosa said low- and middle-income countries were being shouldered aside by wealthier nations able to acquire “up to four times what their population needs”. “We are concerned about vaccine nationalism,” he warned. “Rich countries in the world are […]
