Tag: covid

Danish lab to supply 1.5 million monkeypox doses in Europe

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — Danish company Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, said Tuesday an “undisclosed European country” had ordered 1.5 million doses. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for “intense” efforts to fight the disease as cases rise, especially in western Europe. Bavarian Nordic said deliveries to the unisclosed country would start this year under the contract but the majority of the doses will be delivered during 2023. […]

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China Covid outbreak grows with millions under lockdown

  BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Saturday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases since May, with millions in lockdown this weekend as authorities persist with their zero-Covid policy. Using snap lockdowns, long quarantines and mass testing, China is the last major economy still pursuing the goal of eliminating outbreaks, even as the strategy takes a heavy toll on the economy. China reported 450 local infections on Saturday, up from 432 a day earlier. […]

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PHL logs 2,371 new COVID-19 cases

(Eagle News) — The Philippines logged 2371 additional cases on Thursday, July 14. According to Department of Health data, the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 tally to 375382. Of the total, 16244 are active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 8598. Calabarzon followed suit with 4212 new cases, Western Visayas with 1735, Central Luzon with 1711, and Central Visayas with 785. Of […]

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PBBM now free from all Covid symptoms, could be released from isolation on Friday, July 15

  (Eagle News) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is already “free from all symptoms of COVID-19” and could be released from isolation on Friday, July 15, according to Malacanang. Citing the latest health bulletin on President Marcos, Palace Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles on Wednesday, July 13, said that President has been free from all symptoms of Covid-19 for the past two days The President’s lead physician Dr. Samuel Zacate visited Marcos in his residence at […]

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Macau closes casinos, most businesses as Covid outbreak worsens

  Hong Kong, China (AFP) Macau on Saturday announced a weeklong shutdown of its casinos and non-essential businesses as the city confronted its worst coronavirus outbreak yet. Macau will enter “static management” for a week starting July 11 and residents must stay home, with rulebreakers liable to be jailed for up to two years, top city official Andre Cheong said at a press conference. Some public services and businesses such as supermarkets and pharmacies can […]

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China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid case

BEIJING, China (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of people were under lockdown in a small Chinese city Tuesday after just one case of Covid-19 was detected, as Beijing’s strict no-tolerance virus strategy showed no sign of abating. China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy, crushing new outbreaks with snap lockdowns, forced quarantines and onerous travel curbs despite mounting public fatigue and damage to the economy. Authorities in several regions have imposed […]

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EU recommends second Covid booster jab for over-60s

  STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — The EU’s health and medicine agencies said Monday they were recommending a second booster shot of a Covid vaccine for people over 60 years old, as infections rise again. “With cases and hospitalisations rising again as we enter the summer period, I urge everybody to get vaccinated and boosted as quickly as possible,” Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety said. “There is no time to lose,” […]

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Two days after positive Covid test, Pres. Marcos Jr., “doing well,” working in isolation at home — Palace

Palace Press Sec. says PBBM giving directives to cabinet officials from his home   (Eagle News) – Two days after testing positive for Covid-19, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s condition has greatly improved and is now “doing well,” while he “continues to work in isolation” at his home, Malacanang said on Sunday, July 10. President Marcos was “giving out directives to his cabinet officials in the comfort of his home,” a Palace release said. Press Secretary […]

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Justice Secretary Remulla tests positive for COVID-19

(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla has tested positive for COVID-19. According to Remulla, he tested positive for the virus on Thursday. He said he was so far experiencing “very mild” symptoms. Remulla’s revelation came days after President Bongbong Marcos said he tested positive for COVID-19. The Palace said on Sunday said Marcos’ health has “improved.”  

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Fresh Covid outbreaks put millions under lockdown in China

  BEIJING, China (AFP) — Tens of millions of people were under lockdown in China on Wednesday as businesses in a major tourist city were forced to shut their doors and fresh clusters sparked fears of a return to blanket restrictions. Health authorities reported over 300 infections Wednesday, with clusters found in the historic northern city of Xi’an — home to the Terracotta Army — as well as the country’s biggest city Shanghai. The fresh […]

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Hong Kong lawmaker tests Covid positive after photo with Xi

  HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A Hong Kong lawmaker who posed for a group photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leader’s visit to the financial hub this week confirmed Sunday he has since tested positive for coronavirus. Xi visited Hong Kong under strict security measures to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain in his first trip outside mainland China since the outbreak of the pandemic. Steven Ho, a […]

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Covid air war being lost, experts warn, urging mass ventilation

  by Isabelle CORTES Agence France Presse PARIS France (AFP) — The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid — properly ventilating public spaces — more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. At the moment there is a “fragile, armed peace” with Covid-19, said Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva. “In the hopes of stemming the tide of the […]

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