Through multiple masks, a face shield and a protective suit he likens to those worn by astronauts, Dr Joseph Varon bends over his Covid-19 patient and waves into the phone she is holding up. Dr. Joseph Varon, center, and other medical staff members talk to a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care...
Latinos living in Los Angeles are twice as likely to contract Covid-19 as the county's white population, with "essential" in-person jobs and densely populated residences leaving the group highly exposed to the virus, the latest official data shows. People arrive at a Covid-19 testing center despite...
KALINGA – Tinglayan Mayor Sacrament Gumilab has placed the entire municipality under lockdown or To-or in the local dialect from Dec. 6 - 21, due to the spike in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Gumilab issued an executive order on the ‘To-or’ since COVID-19 has spread among...
President Duterte is confident that the country's purchase of COVID-19 vaccines will be free from corruption with vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, Jr. in charge. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious...
Indonesia has received 1.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac, officials said, as the world's fourth most populous nation struggles to get soaring case rates under control. This handout photo taken on December 6, 2020 and released by the Indonesian Presidential Palace shows...
Around 24.6 million Filipinos, including frontline health workers, will be given priority in the government's vaccination program to fight the new coronavirus disease, Malacañang announced Monday. First on the government’s list of eligible groups will be the 1.76 million health workers from both...
Donald Trump said Sunday his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for Covid-19, the latest member of the president's inner circle -- where mask wearing is rare -- to contract the disease. In this file photo taken on December 02, 2020 Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer of US President...
BAGUIO CITY – This city recorded three coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related fatalities on Saturday, December 5. This was disclosed by the City Health Service Office (CHSO), which also said that there were 41 new cases posted on the same day. The CHSO reported that a 60-year-old male...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world's first roll-out begins next week, reports late Saturday said. In this file photo taken on December 25, 2017 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and...
President Duterte said countries in the world can use the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to establish a "new normal" as he stressed that it is never too early to think of a bounce-back strategy. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task...
President Duterte assured the public that the country will rise again from the setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent natural calamities that rocked the country this year. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on...
For the second day in a row, the United States on Friday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching 225,201 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. In this file photo bodies wrapped in plastic line the walls inside a refrigerated trailer used as a...
