North Korea is seizing on the return of a defector from the South to point the finger at Seoul for the arrival of coronavirus in the country after months of denying it had any cases, analysts said Monday. School children wear face masks at a Pyongyang school in June. North Korea has just reported...
COTABATO CITY – The recovery rate for those afflicted with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) continues to improve, a health official said Monday. Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Health Minister Dr. Saffrullah...
Coronavirus cases in Latin America and the Caribbean surged on Sunday, briefly overtaking the total in North America, an AFP tally showed. As the worldwide case count passed 16 million, Latin America and the Caribbean recorded the highest number of infections, taking its total caseload to more than...
CEBU CITY —Six areas in the city have been placed under strict lockdown as a measure to prevent the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from spreading further. City Mayor Edgardo Labella announced the granular lockdown on Saturday through the issuance of Executive Oder No. 85. The six areas...
Australia has suffered its deadliest day from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, with authorities reporting ten fatalities Sunday and a rise in new infections despite an intensive lockdown effort. People wait for a tram at Melbourne's Flinders Street Station on July 23, 2020 on the first day...
CAGAYAN – Even the isolated Calayan Island, considered the safest town in the province of Cagayan, has now recorded a case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Calayan is the only island municipality among the Babuyan Group of Islands, which is situated several miles north of Aparri. It is...
The United States on Saturday recorded 68,212 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours, Johns Hopkins University reported in its real-time tally. That brought the total number of cases in the world's hardest-hit country to 4,174,437, the Baltimore-based university said at 8:30 pm (0030...
North Korean authorities have imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong after discovering what they called the country's first suspected case of the novel coronavirus, state media reported Sunday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting on Saturday to...
A surge in coronavirus cases across the United States and Europe has forced governments to strengthen containment measures as a survey released Saturday showed support for the handling of their pandemics has slipped. Masks are increasingly becoming obligatory as nations struggle to curb new...
Nine personnel of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will receive a memo from the agency after a photo went viral on social media showing them violating physical distancing while aboard a vehicle, MMDA spokesperson Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago said. Nine personnel of...
The country has recorded a total of 78,000 COVID-19 cases nationwide as another 2,000 more were confirmed to have been stricken by the dreaded illness Saturday. MANILA BULLETIN FILE The Department of Health (DoH) said that 2,019 people were added to the country’s case load, pushing the cumulative...
The Philippine mining industry has so far raised ₱402-million worth of relief fund to help 1.4 million households and frontliners during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Motorists queue up to avail the free COVI19 Drive-Thru Testing Center set by the City of Manila with the initiative of...
