BRISBANE, Australia – Brisbane on Tuesday became the fourth major Australian city ordered into lockdown, as officials told residents to stay at home for three days over concerns about the rapid spread of COVID-19. About 10 million Australians will be in lockdown once the latest order comes...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (Ms. de Vera, 26, is the Manila Bulletin reporter covering the health beat.) I thought I was invincible but the virus got me. Since January 2020, I covered the developments related to the current pandemic — from the time it first appeared and was being called a “mysterious...
JERUSALEM - Israel inched closer to lifting COVID restrictions Tuesday as its caseload remains tiny following a sweeping nationwide vaccination campaign. People buy supplies at a market in Jerusalem on June 1, 2021, as Israel eases coronavirus restrictions following a sweeping nationwide...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Covax vaccine programme secured another $2.4 billion from donors on Wednesday, but underlined it was still struggling to get enough doses to help poorer countries fight the COVID-19 pandemic. A nurse prepares a syringe of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at a...
MADRID, Spain - Spain will allow nightclubs to stay open until up to 3:00 am in regions with low coronavirus infection rates, Health Minister Carolina Darias said Wednesday. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN The Spanish government in August 2020 ordered nightclubs to shut across the country as COVID-19...
MELBOURNE, Australia - A coronavirus lockdown of Australia's second-biggest city will be extended by another seven days, authorities announced Wednesday, as they attempt to stamp out a cluster of cases in Melbourne. People queue for a COVID-19 test in Melbourne on May 27, 2021 after five million...
ADDIS ABABA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- African countries have conducted over 46.9 million COVID-19 tests so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Wednesday. SAVF Evanna Tehuis old age home manager Theresa Swart (C) explains to elderly guests of the retirement home...
President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the COVID-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. (FILES) In this file photo US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19...
About 0.01 percent of people became infected with COVID-19 between January and April despite being fully vaccinated, a US government study confirming the shots' high efficacy showed Tuesday. (FILES) In this file photo a man is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at La Colaborativa...
Long dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory favored by the far right, the idea that COVID emerged from a lab leak in Wuhan has been gaining increasing momentum in the United States. AFP FILE/ MANILA BULLETIN The government's position has shifted to agnosticism in recent weeks, with top pandemic...
Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 450,000 on Tuesday, as delays plague the hard-hit country's vaccine rollout and epidemiologists warned a brutal new surge of the virus could be coming. (FILES) In this file photo taken on February 25, 2021 a worker wearing a protective suit and carrying an...
Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warned Tuesday. (FILES) This file photo taken on February 27, 2021 shows Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 coronavirus...
