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OSLO, Norway (AFP) — An expert committee set up by Norway’s government to evaluate AstraZeneca’s and Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccines said on Monday that both should be abandoned over risks of rare but serious side effects. In order to avoid a slowdown of the vaccine rollout the committee recommended that the two jabs should be made available for people on a voluntary basis. The committee’s head Lars Vorland said they did “not recommend […]
New cases added on Monday were 6,846, new recoveries at 8,193 (Eagle News) — The Philippines added 6,846 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, May 10, bringing to 1,108,826 the total COVID-19 cases in the country. Most of these cases however are recoveries at 92.9 percent. Total recoveries have in fact reached 1,030,367, with the addition of 8,193 new recoveries. Active cases with a total of 59,897 accounted for only 5.4 percent of total cases. Most […]
(Eagle News) — Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año directed all local government chief executives to strictly enforce the prohibition or limitation of mass gatherings under the different community quarantine classifications amid the continuing rise in COVID-19 infections in the country. Año said that local officials who have failed on this would “face sanctions for dereliction of duty.” The Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) directive came after President Rodrigo Duterte expressed […]
(Eagle News) – Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said that some 1.3 million doses of Pfizer are expected to arrive within the month, with the initial 193,000 initial rollout expected to arrive this week, possibly today, May 10, or tomorrow, May 11. Galvez reported this to President Rodrigo Duterte last week. He said that the Pfizer doses were part of the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility. He said that the country is also […]
(Eagle News) — Thirteen more overseas Filipinos have tested positive for COVID-19. According to recent Department of Foreign Affairs data, the additional cases pushed the total COVID-19 cases to 18537. Sixteen additional recoveries also pushed the recovery total to 11349. No additional fatality was reported, which means the death toll remains at 1159. “Compared to last week’s percentages, the total number of COVID-19 recoveries saw a slight decrease to 61.22%. Meanwhile fatalities and those under […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 1094849 on Saturday, May 8, after the Department of Health reported 6979 additional cases. Of the total cases, 63376 were active, according to DOH data. Of these, 94.1 percent were mild cases, 2 percent asymptomatic, 1.6 percent severe, 1.2 percent critical, and 1.04 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1013204, including the additional 10179 ones. The death toll is now at 18269, including the additional 170 deaths. The NCR Plus, […]
by Aishwarya KUMAR Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time and more states imposed lockdowns Saturday in a desperate bid to halt the devastating new surge. The 4,187 new deaths took India’s overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its caseload to nearly 21.9 million — second only […]
(Eagle News) – Some 2 million more doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from COVAX Facility arrived in the country on Saturday, May 8, bringing to over 7.5 million doses the vaccines that have been delivered in the country. The two million AstraZeneca doses that arrived on Saturday came via a Singapore Airlines commercial flight at around 12:50 p.m., and is the biggest batch of vaccine deliveries so far. This will add to the previous 525,600 doses […]
NCR, CALABARZON, C. Luzon are regions with most active cases and most new cases (Eagle News) – COVID-19 recoveries reached 1,003,160 amid a notable increase in virus cases in the past three days, as well as declining number of recoveries. Only 4,227 recoveries were added on Friday, much lower than Thursday’s 6,091 and the previous days’ average of 9,000 per day this May. On May 1, the recoveries reported were at its highest this month […]
Total vaccine doses now in PHL at over 5.5 million, including the 525,600 doses from AstraZeneca and 15k Sputnik V doses (Eagle News) — Some 1.5 million Sinovac doses from China arrived on Friday, May 7, bringing to 5 million the total number of Sinovac doses delivered to the country. This is the biggest batch of vaccine delivery so far to the Philippines. As of Friday, total vaccine doses that the country has — […]
(Eagle News) — The number of COVID-19 deaths among police personnel rose to 58 after the Philippine National Police reported another death, this time from Mindanao. According to PNP data, the latest COVID-19 fatality among its ranks was a 47-year-old police officer assigned in Maguindanao. The PNP said the police officer, who was immuno-compromised due to diabetes, was rushed to the hospital for fever and cough on May 3. He underwent an RT-PCR test which […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has “intercepted” some 20,000 capsules of Ivermectin which were “not declared” in a shipment brought into the country at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. (NAIA). The undeclared Ivermectin capsules as well as other “undeclared regulated drugs” were in a shipment imported by Finstad Inc., from New Delhi, India. They were declared as “Food Supplements, Multivitamins and Multi-Mineral Capsules”, the BOC said on Thursday, May 6. According to […]
