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21,411 new COVID cases, 168 deaths added (Eagle News) – The total number of COVID-19 recoveries in the country breached 2 million on Sunday, Sept. 12, with the addition of 25,049 new recoveries, the highest in over four months. This brought the total recoveries to 2,010,271 or 90.3 percent of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases. New COVID cases added were 21,411 pushing the total active cases to 181,951 or 8.2 percent of the total […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 17,964 new cases on Friday, Sept. 10, bringing the total active cases to 175,470. Because of the additional cases, the active cases now comprise eight percent of total confirmed COVID-19 cases which reached 2,179,770. The eight percent active cases is the highest percentage of active cases in over four months or since April 24 when the percentage of active cases stood at nine percent. The new […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers died of Covid-19 in four months, the health ministry said Thursday. The island nation, which recorded its first maternal coronavirus death in May, is battling a spike in Delta variant infections after travel restrictions were eased for local new year celebrations in mid-April. “Usually, we have 90 to 100 maternal deaths a year, but since […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France has granted citizenship to over 12,000 foreign-born health workers, security guards, checkout assistants and other frontline workers to thank them for their services during the Covid crisis, the government said Thursday. Marlene Schiappa, junior interior minister in charge of citizenship, said over 16,000 people had applied for a French passport over the past year under a special scheme allowing workers in essential services to apply for citizenship after just two […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a major escalation in the national Covid immunization campaign with strict new vaccination rules affecting tens of millions of workers, as he hardened his tone towards Americans who refuse the shots. The six-point plan targets businesses with more than 100 employees, in the United States’ most aggressive steps taken so far against the surging Delta variant. “A distinct minority of […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — All children aged 12 and over who attend public schools in Los Angeles will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the year, the city’s board of education ruled Thursday. The vote by the Los Angeles Unified School District is the first by a major school board in the United States, and could set a precedent for other local authorities. © Agence France-Presse
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The European Medicines Agency has listed the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause temporary paralysis, as a “very rare” side effect of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. A causal relationship was “considered at least a reasonable possibility”, the EMA said in an update Wednesday after a total of 833 cases of the syndrome had been reported worldwide by July 31, from about 592 million doses of the AstraZeneca “Vaxzevria” shot […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Locked-down Sydney residents could enjoy a beer at the pub as soon as next month if the double-dose vaccination rate hits 70 percent, under an official “roadmap to freedom” released on Thursday. Officials in the eastern state of New South Wales, which includes Sydney, said stay-at-home orders would be lifted for fully vaccinated people once it hits the interim Covid-19 vaccine target for adults. The roadmap gave no date but current […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The vaccine-sharing facility Covax said Wednesday it should be able to provide Covid jabs to no more than 20 percent of people in poorer countries this year, far fewer than anticipated. Covax acknowledged that it now expects to access just 1.425 billion vaccine doses this year — far short of its goal of delivering two billion doses by year-end. That milestone was now expected to be reached only in the first […]
by Sofia CHRISTENSEN JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — More than 200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Africa since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally compiled from official records as of 1700 GMT. The 54 countries of the region may not have suffered as badly as other parts of the world — at least according to the officially recorded figures. They seem to have avoided the catastrophic scenarios some feared at […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — For families struggling to survive on $150 a month in Bangkok’s biggest slum, coronavirus swab tests are a luxury that few can afford. The Khlong Toei slum, where an estimated 100,000 people live packed into tiny, overcrowded dwellings, has been a major concern as Thailand battles its third wave of the pandemic. Now the Bangkok Community Help Foundation, a charity, has launched a mass testing drive to try to identify cases […]
President Rodrigo Duterte, in his regular “Talk to the People” recorded on Sept. 7, and aired on Sept. 8, assures the public that there is no corruption in the government’s procurement of the PPEs, medicines and other needs for the COVID-19 pandemic. He also hit the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee for the way it conducted hearings on the Department of Health’s utilization of budget regarding the needs to address the COVID-19. President Duterte also […]
