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(Eagle News) — Malacanang sees Cebu as the most concerning COVID-19 hotspot in the country as cases have spiked there enough to affect its critical care utilization rate. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that Central Visayas, including Cebu, is the region with the highest number of infections and that COVID-19 deaths have been increasing there. He said that the government is sending more doctors, nurses and even more medical equipment, including much needed ventilators […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. It possesses “all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans,” say the authors, scientists at Chinese universities, and China’s Centers for […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s military has approved a coronavirus vaccine for use within its ranks that has been developed by its research unit and a biotech firm, the company said Monday. Organisations around the world are racing to find ways to treat and prevent the deadly pathogen, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has since killed over half a million people worldwide. More than half of 17 candidate vaccines […]
(Eagle News) – Total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 36,438 on Monday afternoon, June 29, after 985 additional confirmed cases were added by the Department of Health (DOH). Of the additional cases, 643 were fresh cases while 342 were late cases. Metro Manila still had the most cases — both fresh and late cases — 223 fresh cases and 96 late cases. Total recoveries were 9.956 with the addition of 270 new recoveries, […]
(Eagle News) – A moratorium is now imposed on the travel of locally-stranded individuals (LSIs) in Central Visayas, Cebu island, Mactan, Eastern Visayas, and CARAGA region, Malacanang announced today, Monday, June 29. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) came out with the decision today after noting the COVID-19 situation in these areas. The IATF is currently meeting on the country’s COVID-19 situation, and so […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Brooklyn Nets forward Wilson Chandler ruled himself out of the NBA’s restarted season on Sunday, citing safety fears because of the coronavirus. Chandler told ESPN he had opted to skip the restart in Orlando in order to spend more time with his family. “As difficult as it will be to not be with my teammates, the health and well-being of my family has to come first,” Chandler told ESPN. […]
(Eagle News) –Over 59,000 overseas Filipinos have been repatriated to the country since February when the first flight from WUhan, China had brought home Filipinos from abroad, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Last week alone, the DFA said it had repatriated almost 8,000 overseas Filipinos (OFs) or 7,928 OFs to be exact. This brought to 59,041 the total number of repatriated overseas Filipinos since the COVID-19 outbreak. Of the total, 53.67 percent (31,688) […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital to contain a fresh coronavirus cluster on Sunday, as authorities warned the outbreak was still “severe and complicated.” After China largely brought the virus under control, hundreds have been infected in Beijing and cases have emerged in neighbouring Hebei province in recent weeks. Health officials said Sunday that Anxin county — about 150 […]
(Eagle News) – The total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 10 million while deaths were now more than half a million as virus cases continued to increase in almost all countries affected by the pandemic. Based on the data of the Johns Hopkins University as of Monday, June 29, 7:33 a.m., (Philippine time) global COVID-19 cases reached 10,104,045 while COVID deaths reached 500,882. The United States still leads countries with the most […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that COVID-19 cases in the country have reached 34,803 with the addition of 738 cases which is fewer than Friday’s 1,006 additional cases. The data as of 4 p.m., Saturday, June 27, showed that there were 506 fresh cases added today, which were also less than Friday’s 788 fresh cases. “Late cases” added today were 178 which were also fewer than Friday’s 218 late cases. There […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — Panamanian Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran, six-time boxing world champion, was hospitalized in non-life-threatening condition Thursday with the novel coronavirus, his children said on the same day that Panama hit a new record of daily cases. “Test results have just arrived for my dad, and they confirm he is positive for COVID-19,” the legendary fighter’s son Robin Duran said on Instagram. “Thank God for now he doesn’t have symptoms […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Health workers fanned out across suburbs of Melbourne Friday in a testing blitz aimed at choking off a surge in coronavirus cases in Australia’s second-biggest city. Officials reported another 30 new COVID-19 infections in the city overnight in a continuing outbreak that has raised fears of a second wave in Australia, which looked like it had successfully contained the epidemic. It was the 10th straight day of double-digit rises in new […]
