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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China tested almost 10 million people for coronavirus in just over two weeks in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began, officials said Tuesday, reporting only a few hundred positive cases. Chinese authorities claim to have largely brought the virus under control but Wuhan officials — wary of a second wave — launched the program after new infections emerged for the first time since the city re-opened in April following more […]
(Eagle News) – The number of COVID-cases in the country reached close to 19,000 as the number of recoveries surpassed 4,000 as of Tuesday, June 2, the Department of Health said. In its regular virtual presser, the DOH said that the total number of cases reached 18,997 as of 4 p.m. These 18,997 cases are all validated: 176 of which are fresh or new cases, while 183 are “late cases” from test results which were […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh to die from the coronavirus, an official said Tuesday. “He died on May 31. But last night we got the confirmation that he died of COVID-19,” said Toha Bhuiyan, a senior health official in the Cox’s Bazar district. The man, who lived in the Kutupalong camp, was among at least 29 Rohingya to have tested positive […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday recorded 743 new coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, bringing its total to 105,099 since the global pandemic began. The country has officially logged 1,809,109 cases of COVID-19, the tracker set up by the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30pm (0030 GMT Tuesday). The death toll and number of cases in the United States are by far the worst in […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Wuhan doctor who worked with coronavirus whistleblower Li Wenliang died of the virus last week, state media reported Tuesday, becoming China’s first COVID-19 fatality in weeks. Hu Weifeng, a urologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, died on Friday after being treated for COVID-19 and allied issues for more than four months, state broadcaster CCTV said. He is the sixth doctor from Wuhan Central Hospital to have died from the virus, which […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Pupils wearing face masks returned to school in Singapore on Tuesday and some workplaces re-opened as coronavirus restrictions were eased in the hard-hit city-state. Singapore initially kept infections low through a strict regime of testing and contact-tracing, only for major outbreaks to emerge from crowded dormitories housing low-paid foreign workers. The country has recorded over 35,000 cases — the highest official tally in Southeast Asia — with the vast majority among […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Top scientists, health officials and the WHO on Monday rushed to counter claims made by a leading Italian doctor who said the new coronavirus “no longer exists” in the country. The row came as Italy prepared the next stage of its gradual easing of a national lockdown imposed three months ago to fight the spread of the deadly virus. “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday declared a city curfew from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am, as anti-racism protests grip the United States with regular outbreaks of violence and looting. Saying that “we support peaceful protest,” De Blasio said he made the decision in consultation with the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo, following the lead of many large US cities. In a joint statement the mayor and governor […]
By Jonathan KLEIN and Pitcha DANGPRASITH in Bangkok PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) — People returned to some of Thailand’s famed sandy beaches Monday, keeping well apart but enjoying the outdoors, as authorities eased some coronavirus restrictions for the first time in more than two months. In Pattaya, visitors marveled at the clarity of the turquoise-blue waters of the Gulf of Thailand, and pensioners eager for exercise promenaded along the beach. Social distancing rules still applied, with […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 deaths passed 10,000 on Monday, the health secretary said. News of the updated toll — now 10,167 — came as Mexico announced it was gradually reopening its economy by reactivating its automotive, mining and construction sectors. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health announced declining deaths in the past few weeks as it reported 552 COVID-19 cases on Monday, June 1, bringing the total coronavirus cases in the country to 18,638. In a virtual presser, the DOH said that the fresh cases, or those confirmed in the past three days, were only 119, while the rest, 433, were called “late cases” meaning confirmed cases based on test results released […]
PHL history professor analyzes the similarities between the two pandemics set a century apart, and what lessons could be learned from the 1918-1919 flu pandemic (Eagle News) – A hundred years ago, from 1918 to 1919, a virus pandemic infected 500 million worldwide – a third of the world’s population at that time – killing as many as 50 million people, according to conservative estimates. In the Philippines, the so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic killed […]
