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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia will reopen the resort island of Bali to select international travellers next week, a senior minister said, after the pandemic starved the holiday hotspot of one of its primary sources of income. The island’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will be open to international travelers from South Korea, China, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, and New Zealand as of October 14, maritime and investment minister Luhut Panjaitan told a […]
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Australian medical tech manufacturer Ellume said it had recalled almost 200,000 at-home Covid-19 tests in the United States over an increased chance of false positives. Ellume’s rapid at-home coronavirus test last year became the first to receive emergency use authorisation in the US. The US Food and Drug Administration issued an alert Tuesday over the “potential for false positive results with certain lots of the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test, due […]
Percentage of active cases at 3.9 percent, one of lowest this year (Eagle News) – New COVID-19 cases in the country as of Tuesday, Oct. 5, reached 9,055, the fourth straight day that new cases have been declining, according to Department of Health data. This is also the first time in about two months that new COVID cases reported were less than 10,000. The last time that new cases were below 10,000 happened on […]
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 […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The weekly number of coronavirus deaths worldwide has fallen to levels unseen for almost a year, according to an AFP count on Monday based on official national figures. The 53,245 deaths recorded worldwide between September 27 and October 3, an average of 7,606 each day, showed that the global pandemic continues the downward trend that began at the end of August, after a peak of around 10,000 deaths per day. […]
(Eagle News)–Over 100 more COVID-19 cases have been reported among police personnel. The Philippine National Police said the additional 111 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 40070. Of these, 1959 are active. Recoveries rose to 37992 with the additional 175 recoveries. The PNP COVID-19 death toll is now at 119 with the additional death. The PNP has said eight out of ten policemen are fully vaccinated. PNP Chief Guillermo Eleazar received his first vaccine […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US fatalities from Covid-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation’s capital Washington. The grim threshold comes with an average of well over 1,000 dying each day, in a country where 55.7 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After a heavily criticized early response […]
Says Senator Gordon’s remarks that hearings will be conducted ’til Kingdom come’ already tantamount to “grave abuse of discretion” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed his cabinet members not to attend hearings being conducted by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee anymore saying its chair Senator Richard Gordon is already “overstepping” his jurisdiction and already committing “grave abuse of discretion. President Duterte during his “Talk to the People” on Sept. 30, said he has […]
ICU bed utilization in Metro Manila, nationwide remain at high-risk (Eagle News) – The Department of Health added 14,286 new COVID-19 cases and 130 new COVID deaths on Thursday, Sept. 30. Total COVID-19 cases already reached 2,549,966, but only 5.4 percent of these remain active cases at 138,294. Most of these have already recovered, or 93.1 percent or 2,373,378. Total COVID deaths reached 38,294 or just 1.5 percent of total cases, with the addition […]
Galvez says those with comordibities, and children of health workers to be prioritized for vaccination by October (Eagle News) – At least 29 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been allotted by the Philippine government for the inoculation of adolescents, or those aged 12 to 17, that will start by October. This was according to National Task Force Against COVID-19 Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., who said that those who will be prioritized are adolescents with comorbidities […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — YouTube announced Wednesday it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around Covid-19 and other diseases. Video-sharing giant YouTube has already banned posts that spread false myths around coronavirus treatments, including ones that share inaccurate claims about Covid-19 vaccines shown to be safe. But the Google-owned site said its concerns about the […]
President Duterte approves vaccination of children and general population by October, says Roque (Eagle News) – Malacanang is encouraging parents to enlist their children aged 12 to 17 years old for COVID-19 vaccines after President Rodrigo Duterte approved the administration of vaccines for children and for the general population by October. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the President’s approval of vaccination for children and for the rest of the population […]
