Police officers stand guard outside their station in Puno, in southern Peru, as a precaution measure after hundreds of supporters of ousted president Pedro Castillo were spotted heading to this city by Lake Titicaca on January 9, 2023. (Juan Carlos CISNEROS / AFP) PUNO, Peru -- Peru on Tuesday...
The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, Nov. 28, a total of 8,032 new Covid-19 cases during the past week. DOH/MB In its weekly case bulletin, DOH said that daily average cases are currently at 1,147 which is 0.3 percent higher than cases from Nov. 14 to 20. The agency also recorded five...
The seven-day average of daily Covid-19 deaths in the Philippines has decreased from 38 to 12, an OCTA Research fellow said on Friday, Nov. 25. “The seven-day average as of Nov. 21 is 12, down from 38 on Oct. 21, 2022,” said OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David in a tweet. Hospital nurse (File...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. wants the Philippines to continue commemorating the deadly typhoon Yolanda years after it hit the country to keep the memory of those who perished. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (RTVM Screenshot) Marcos, during the 9th year commemoration of...
Hospital nurse (FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said it observed an increase in deaths due to Covid-19 in July and mid-August, noting that the majority of these recorded deaths were unvaccinated individuals. “There is this observed increase in the number of deaths over these past...
Gabriela Party-list on Tuesday, July 19, pushed for heftier penalties--including jail time of 12 years--on employers found violating the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Law. (Photo by Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN) House Bill (HB) 2126, which seeks to criminalize OSH violations, has been...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killing a health worker and two policemen -- the latest deaths in a dangerous campaign to eradicate the disease. Pakistan is one of two countries, alongside neighbouring Afghanistan, where polio remains...
PYONGYANG, North Korea-- The number of fevered persons in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reached more than 1.2 million by Sunday evening, and 50 of them have died of fever, the Korean Central News Agency reported Monday. About 392,920 more persons with fever were reported on...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea announced 21 new "fever" deaths Saturday and said more than half a million people had been sickened nationwide, two days after confirming its first cases of Covid-19. Despite activating its "maximum emergency quarantine system" to slow the spread of disease through...
NEW YORK, United States -- The United States has crossed the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, the White House said on Thursday, as the nation seeks to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge. "Today, we mark a tragic milestone," President Joe Biden said in a...
WASHINGTON, United States – The bells at Washington National Cathedral rang out 1,000 times Monday, with each toll representing 1,000 deaths from Covid-19, as the United States closed in on the grim milestone of almost one million Covid dead. The National Cathedral The United States has...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The Covid-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday -- nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease. The World Health Organization's long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused...
