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). The...
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. A user displays the TraceTogether token, used for contact tracing system to...
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. A cyclist wearing a protective face covering to combat the spread of the coronavirus, rides over...
Chinese medics in Shanghai were given Covid-19 inoculations this week, as vaccine makers insisted their jab was effective against current virus mutations. This photo taken on January 3, 2021 shows a medical worker administering a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine to a man at a temporary...
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). This was revealed by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson who said that medical frontliners will be given priority in...
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. In this file photo taken on November 17, 2020 An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19...
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. This file illustration picture taken in Paris on...
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. According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, any decision of President Duterte to restrict...
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. In this file photo taken on November 17, 2020 An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19...
A representative-elect from Louisiana died of Covid-19 Tuesday, the first member of the US Congress to succumb to the disease. Republican Luke Letlow, 41, had been elected to Louisiana's 5th district and was due to be sworn in on Sunday. Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards announced the news on...
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. The Huexstrasse is pictured in the northern German city of Lübeck December 10, 2020. - The charming German city of...
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. A man walks past a closed liquor store in Newtown, Johannesburg, on December 29,...
