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DAVAO CITY – Churchgoers, who attended Holy Masses at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Barangay Ma-a, Davao City from December 22 until January 1, have been encouraged to get themselves tested for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after three priests and a seminarian were infected.

LONDON – England went back into full lockdown as Europe battled Wednesday to stem a rising tide of coronavirus cases, and the United States logged its worst daily death toll of the pandemic.

Denmark said it is barring entry to residents of South Africa due to fears over the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus there.

Delays to a long-planned mission by WHO experts to China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic are "not just a visa issue", Beijing said Wednesday.

DAVAO CITY— The City Council of Davao is set to schedule a series of committee hearings on January 11 and 14 after the passage on first reading of a draft ordinance for the implementation of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) immunization program on Tuesday, January 5.

TACLOBAN CITY - Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez said the city government will be purchasing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines good for 30 to 40 percent of the city’s population of 240,000.

PANGASINAN – Six senior citizens died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday, January 5, and together with a 35-year-old patient, comprised the highest number of reported fatalities on a single day in the province, according to the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office (PPHO).

Singapore has admitted data collected for contact-tracing can be accessed by police despite earlier assurances it would only be used to fight the coronavirus, sparking privacy concerns Tuesday about the scheme.

Schools and colleges across Britain closed on Tuesday ahead of a national lockdown as the country battled to control surging coronavirus cases that are threatening to overwhelm its healthcare system.

Chinese medics in Shanghai were given Covid-19 inoculations this week, as vaccine makers insisted their jab was effective against current virus mutations.

BACOLOD CITY - The provincial government of Negros Occidental has allocated P30 million from this year’s budget for the purchase of vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Mexico on Monday authorized the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for emergency use in the country, which has one of the world's highest Covid-19 death tolls.

Britain was on Monday set to begin a mass rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the cheap and easy to distribute shot that experts hope will help crush the pandemic, as China raced to inoculate millions with a homegrown prophylactic.

The government is closely monitoring the detection of the first case of the new coronavirus strain in the United States, Malacañang said Wednesday amid efforts to prevent its entry to the country.

A coronavirus vaccine developed by drug firm AstraZeneca and Oxford University has been approved for use in Britain, the government said Wednesday, adding the mass rollout will start on January 4.

A representative-elect from Louisiana died of Covid-19 Tuesday, the first member of the US Congress to succumb to the disease.

The charming German city of Luebeck was lovingly done up for the holidays with fairy lights and garlands but the usual festive bustle was eerily absent this pandemic-scarred winter.

South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases, as the World Health Organization warned that pandemics far more deadly than Covid-19 may lie ahead.