US lawmakers have reached a deal for a new package to boost the world's largest economy, which has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic, congressional leaders announced Sunday. =Dusk falls over the US Capitol building on December 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Republicans and Democrats in the...
US authorities are looking "very carefully" into the virus variant spreading in the United Kingdom, top health officials said Sunday, while indicating that a ban on UK travel was not currently in the cards. Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson...
India surged past 10 million coronavirus cases on Saturday, official data showed, the second highest in the world although new infection rates appear to have fallen sharply in recent weeks. A man wearing a scarf over his face as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus walks past a...
Pompeo to help PH secure Pfizer COVID vaccine – Locsin The Task Group on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection led by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that it has ongoing engagements with 23 vaccine developers with four undergoing various stages of review and evaluation for their...
Several senior US officials including Vice President Mike Pence got early Covid-19 vaccinations Friday, contrasting with Europe, where two leaders were quarantining after testing positive and EU regulators have yet to approve a vaccine. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston administered the...
After being relatively spared by coronavirus, Africa is bracing for the pandemic's second wave, noting how the microbe has once more cut a swathe through rich countries in Europe and North Africa. -Residents of a Hillbrow, Johannesburg, building observe from the balconies on March 28, 2020 as a...
Australian officials declared Sydney's northern beaches a coronavirus hotspot Friday as a cluster of cases grew to 28 and triggered a return of domestic travel restrictions. People line up for a Covid-19 coronavirus testing at Mona Vale Hospital in Sydney on December 18, 2020. (Photo by Steven...
TACLOBAN CITY - The Sangguniang Panlungsod here has passed a resolution, granting Active Hazard Duty Pay (AHDP) and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Special Risk Allowance (SRA) to public health workers directly catering to or in contact with COVID-19 patients during the state of a health...
Germany registered a record number of deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday, the first day of a new partial lockdown to try and cope with a surge in infections. A billboard promoting the German Health Ministry's anti-Corona measures hangs from one of the towers of Berlin's cathedral (Berliner Dom), in...
French-Austrian biotech firm Valneva said Wednesday it will begin clinical trials of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in Britain, where the government has already ordered at least 60 million doses. Britain said in July that it had ordered 60 million doses of Valneva's potential vaccine. (AFP / MANILA...
California officials ordered thousands of extra body bags Tuesday as record coronavirus cases left Los Angeles with fewer than 100 intensive care beds available for a county of 10 million people. Governor Gavin Newsom warned Californians not to become complacent with an end to the pandemic in sight...
DAVAO CITY - The provincial government of Davao de Oro on Monday said 43 employees of a mining company operating in Maco town have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The 43 additional cases were among the 46 new cases recorded in the province last December 12. In a statement,...
