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(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2833038 on Wednesday, Dec. 1, after the Department of Health reported 500 more COVID-19 cases. According to the DOH, of these, 15327 were active. Of the active cases, 756 were asymptomatic, 7183 were mild, 3632 were moderate, 2489 were severe, and 1067 were critical. Recoveries rose to 2768999 with the addition of 951 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 48712, with the additional […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Five million people have died worldwide from Covid-19 since the disease first emerged in China nearly two years ago, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. Monday’s milestone, nearly four months after four million deaths were registered, came even as mortality rates slow thanks to a global vaccine rollout that has seen billions of people injected. While the number of daily deaths worldwide fell below 8,000 for […]
by Paul RICARD Agence France Presse With the world poised to hit more than five million people officially dead from the coronavirus, experts tell AFP the pandemic’s future path will depend greatly on vaccinations. – How many dead? The true number of fatalities is believed to be far higher than the five million based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country. The World Health Organization estimates the overall toll could be […]
Active COVID cases down to 106,160 out of total COVID cases of 2.6 million (Eagle News)— The Department of Health (DOH) only reported 10,748 new COVID-19 cases and 61 new deaths on Monday, Oct. 4. The DOH also reported more recoveries at 16,523. Because of this, the total active cases are now down to 106,160 or 4.1 percent of total COVID cases. But recoveries increased its percentage to 94.4 percent as the total recoveries […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health reported a surge in COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, Aug. 8 at 287, an increase of more than a hundred compared to Saturday’s additional deaths of 162. The 287 new deaths is the highest single-day tally of COVID-19 fatalities reported since the April 2021 surge. The highest single-day report of deaths last April happened on April 9 at 401 deaths. Total COVID-19 deaths as of Sunday, Aug. 8, […]
by Glenda KWEK Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country’s worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday. The Center for Global Development study’s estimate is the highest yet for the carnage in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people, which is emerging from a devastating […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Work-from-home restrictions were reimposed in Moscow on Monday as Russia tried to contain a deadly coronavirus wave fuelled by the Delta variant, while several Asian nations also tightened curbs to contain growing outbreaks. While many wealthy countries have brought down infections through rapid vaccinations, outbreaks are still raging from Bangladesh and Indonesia to South America — many fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant that was first detected in India. […]
by Louis GENOT Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil on Saturday became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic. “500,000 lives lost due to the pandemic that affects our Brazil and the world,” Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tweeted. The Health Ministry reported 500,800 deaths, including 2,301 in the last 24 hours, a […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, official data showed, as the pandemic raged across the vast country of 1.3 billion people. According to the health ministry, 4,205 people died in the past 24 hours — a new record — taking total fatalities to 254,197. The number of cases rose almost 350,000 to 23.3 million, the second-highest after the United States. While the pandemic is easing in […]
26 more recover (Eagle News) — Seventeen more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad to 18270. Twenty-six more recoveries also pushed the recoveries among Filipinos outside the country to 11220. The death toll is now at 1141, with the addition of 15 deaths. According to DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with […]
COVID-19 critical cases still rising as of Sunday, April 11 (Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported at least 55,204 recoveries from COVID-19 bringing down the active coronavirus cases in the country from the Saturday’s record-high of 190,245 to Sunday’s (April 11) number of 146,519. But new deaths added since Friday, April 9, are still in the hundreds per day, with the last two days registering at least 200 deaths daily. The 55,204 recovered […]
by Allison Jackson and Cecil Morella Agence France Presse Angelo Barrera’s father struggled to breathe from Covid-19 as he was driven around the Philippine capital in search of a hospital bed. After five hours he got on a waitlist, but died before he could get inside. More contagious variants of the coronavirus have been blamed for a record surge in infections in Metro Manila that has overstretched hospitals and sent the national capital region into […]
