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by Nina LARSON with Alice Hackman in Beirut and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as European nations battled rising numbers of new cases. Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in Germany, France, Spain and Italy — sparking fears of a full-fledged second […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Bong Revilla, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, is “getting better,” his wife has said. In a Facebook post, Lani Mercado-Revilla, also the Bacoor mayor, said her husband, however, “occasionally coughs when he talks” and “still needs to rest.” She said he also “still has to continue to take his meds and antibiotics.” She shared a picture of the senator, who was smiling as he was lying on a bed. Earlier, the Bacoor […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte called on Filipinos to “emulate” the courage of the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., during this time of pandemic as the country commemorated “Ninoy Aquino Day” on Friday, Aug. 21. “Today, we honor the late Senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino Jr., whose life, work and impact on governance have uplifted the lives of many, especially the oppressed and marginalized,” President Duterte said in his message. “As this important […]
https://youtu.be/IGbx9YzlCVo (Eagle News) – Health professionals with existing contracts abroad as of March 8 this year will now be allowed to leave the country to return to their work, Malacanang said. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has allowed health workers with existing contracts as of March can leave the country to fulfill their contract. He said that these health professional professionals with overseas employment certificates […]
(Eagle News) – Total coronavirus cases worldwide have reached more than 22.6 million while deaths due to the virus have reached more than 793,000, according to the virus dashboard of the Johns Hopkins University. The United States still lead countries with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths. As of past 1 p.m. (PST) Friday, Aug. 21, the confirmed virus infections in the US reached 5.57 million, while US deaths reached 174,255. This is followed by […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s year-on-year GDP fell by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2020 as it was badly affected by coronavirus containment measures, the government said on Thursday. Meanwhile, Argentina’s state statistics institute said its economy contracted by almost 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year. In Peru, mandatory confinement was in place throughout the whole of the second quarter and was only […]
MONTEVIDO, Uruguay (AFP) — Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed 250,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, according to an AFP tally based on official national statistics. The region recorded 6,463,245 infections and 250,969 deaths by 2200 GMT. Brazil is the region’s worst-affected country with 3.5 million cases and more than 112,000 deaths. The South American giant is second only to the United States as the world’s worst-hit country. Peru, where figures released Thursday showed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious diseases official, said Wednesday the government wouldn’t make any future COVID-19 vaccine obligatory for the general public — though local jurisdictions could make it mandatory for some groups, like children. “You don’t want to mandate and try and force anyone to take a vaccine. We’ve never done that,” said Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, during a video […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany has recorded 1,707 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily toll since April, official figures showed Thursday. Germany has fared better than many European neighbours in suppressing the virus so far but like elsewhere, the number of cases has jumped significantly over the summer holidays. Much of the rise has been blamed on returning holidaymakers as well as parties and family gatherings. The […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Coronavirus cases in Asia-Pacific countries are now being driven by people under the age of 50 who may not know they are infected, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning of a “new phase” in the pandemic. Many have mild or no COVID-19 symptoms and risk infecting the elderly and other vulnerable populations, the WHO’s Western Pacific regional director Takeshi Kasai told a virtual briefing. “The epidemic is changing. People […]
G614 virus strain only found in QC samples, may not be present yet in whole country (Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the G614 mutation of the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 which was found in a sample of positive cases in Quezon City “may not represent the mutational landscape for the whole country.” But the DOH noted that this G614 variant which has also been reported in many other countries with […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte thanked Russia and China for offering to the Philippines the vaccines they are developing against COVID-19. Duterte said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have both offered to help the country address its COVID-19 problems by offering the vaccines which their scientists are developing to fight the virus. “As I have stated time and again repeatedly that the only salvation available to humankind at this […]
