The United States' top infectious disease official on Monday hailed early results from Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine as "stunningly impressive," calling the result a validation for experimental mRNA technology that some had doubted. This creative image taken in a studio in Paris on November 16, 2020,...
Global hopes of vanquishing the coronavirus pandemic were boosted Monday after a vaccine was found to be nearly 95 percent effective in a trial, bringing much-needed optimism amid surging infections and grueling new restrictions. In this file photo taken on August 13, 2020, a lab technician sorts...
While Austria was held up as a model to follow during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, its return to lockdown Tuesday has sparked a backlash against the government. A photo taken on November 9, 2020 shows the near-empty Linzergasse in Salzburg, Austria, during a second mass shutdown...
US states and cities were imposing a raft of new restrictions to try to curb soaring Covid-19 infection rates. People walk through Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan as New York City tries to contain a spike in COVID-19 cases on November 16, 2020 in New York City. While much of the nation...
Algeria imposed new coronavirus restrictions Sunday, closing sport and cultural centres as well as beaches after a spike in infections. Algerian worshippers perform the Friday prayers at a mosque in the capital Algiers on November 6, 2020, after authorities allowed the reopening of mosques with a...
A sudden coronavirus cluster emerged in the Australian city of Adelaide on Monday after seven months without a significant outbreak there, with the virus again escaping from the country's hotel quarantine system. People wearing face masks exercise around the Albert Park Lake in Melbourne on...
BAGUIO CITY – The city recorded 47 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, and 52 recoveries on Sunday, November 15. According to the City Health Service Office (CHSO), a 77-year-old female was also logged as the city’s seventh fatality for the month. Of the new cases, 38 were tracked through...
BACOLOD CITY - The province of Negros Occidental has the highest number of active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Western Visayas with 1,245, as of November 15. Based on the data of Department of Health in Region 6 (DOH-6), the province also has also recorded a total of 5,179 COVID-19...
The US surpassed 11 million coronavirus cases Sunday, adding one million new cases in less than a week, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. A health worker collect a swab sample for a COVID-19 test from a child at the Jose Marti International Airport as commercial flights resume in...
Mexico surpassed one million Covid-19 cases on Saturday, registering 5,860 new infections over the previous day in a country with one of the world's highest death tolls from the virus, the government said. Aerial file photo taken on April 21, 2020 of a burial caravan heading to the Municipal...
BAGUIO CITY – The city is continuing to increase its capacity for quarantine and isolation of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients, and has added to the central isolation facilities of a hospital and private accommodation facilities. Mayor Benjamin Magalong (JJ Landingin / MANILA BULLETIN FILE...
Mongolia Wednesday reported its first domestic transmissions of the coronavirus, from a truck driver who infected his wife and two other relatives after three weeks of quarantine. The landlocked country bordering Russia and China has so far reported just 376 virus cases -- all imported -- and...
