The World Bank said Tuesday that it approved $12 billion for developing countries to finance the purchase and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, tests, and treatment. A health worker administers a dose of Sinovac Biotech potential vaccine against the COVID-19 during the 3rd phase trials at the...
PARIS, France — As Europe imposed new restrictions to try to stall a surging second wave of the novel coronavirus, hopes for vaccines to rapidly provide relief suffered a blow Tuesday with the suspension of two clinical trials in the United States. This photo was taken on October 13, 2020,...
Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole returned to Germany on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades. Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole returned to Germany on Monday, bringing...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The local legislative building here was placed under lockdown after one city councillor tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The local legislative building here was placed under lockdown after one city councillor tested positive for the coronavirus disease...
DAVAO CITY – The city government of Mati reported on Tuesday, October 13, its first suspected death from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). City Information Office Dead Ben Tesiorna said the fatality was a 67-year-old female patient, who had been recuperating from a stroke for years. She died...
LAOAG CITY (PNA) – Residents in Ilocos Norte will now have more time to engage in economic activities after curfew hours were shortened in the province. Ilocos Norte Governor Matthew Marcos Manotoc (Facebook / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) In his latest public advisory, Governor...
ILOILO CITY —The number of people who have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Western Visayas region has risen to 325. This was after the Department of Health (DOH) recorded nine new COVID-19 related deaths over the weekend. Seven new COVID-19 deaths were recorded last October 10,...
India's coronavirus cases surged past seven million on Sunday, taking it ever closer to overtaking the United States as the world's most infected country. Residents hold a man as a health worker (R) collects a swab sample from him to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a community gym centre on...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected next week to outline a new three-tier lockdown system as rates of coronavirus infection surge particularly in northern England. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky inside number...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country have passed 336,000, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, Oct. 10. There are 2,249 new cases that were confirmed, driving the total number of infections to 336,926. This is the sixth straight day that the number of new...
Gen. Gilbert Gapay, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), cited Vice President Leni Robredo for coming up with ways to attend to the needs of medical frontliners amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay (PHILIPPINE ARMY / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, Oct. 9. reported three new confirmed COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) cases, four new recoveries, and no new fatalities among Filipinos abroad. In its latest daily report on coronavirus cases involving overseas Filipinos, the DFA said the new...
