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PARIS, France — Climate change will drive animals towards cooler areas where their first encounters with other species will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting humans, raising the threat of another pandemic, researchers warned Thursday.

The Department of Health (DOH) reminded the public that the threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) still remains even if the country continues to see a decreasing number of new infections.

COVID-19 protection for minors six to 17 years old is within reach as the Sinovac COVID vaccine was given the green light for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in Brazil and Thailand which could be the basis for the same EUA in the Philippines. This development can advance the campaign for pediatric vaccination in the country, allaying parental concerns about their children’s welfare while reducing vaccine hesitancy.

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Could the Omicron coronavirus variant act as a “natural vaccine” and be the “beginning of an end” of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Department of Health (DOH) and some local medical experts disapproved of this notion.

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JERUSALEM – Israel inched closer to lifting COVID restrictions Tuesday as its caseload remains tiny following a sweeping nationwide vaccination campaign.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The Covax vaccine programme secured another $2.4 billion from donors on Wednesday, but underlined it was still struggling to get enough doses to help poorer countries fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

MADRID, Spain – Spain will allow nightclubs to stay open until up to 3:00 am in regions with low coronavirus infection rates, Health Minister Carolina Darias said Wednesday.

MELBOURNE, Australia – A coronavirus lockdown of Australia’s second-biggest city will be extended by another seven days, authorities announced Wednesday, as they attempt to stamp out a cluster of cases in Melbourne.

ADDIS ABABA, May 26 (Xinhua) — African countries have conducted over 46.9 million COVID-19 tests so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the COVID-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident.

About 0.01 percent of people became infected with COVID-19 between January and April despite being fully vaccinated, a US government study confirming the shots’ high efficacy showed Tuesday.

Long dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory favored by the far right, the idea that COVID emerged from a lab leak in Wuhan has been gaining increasing momentum in the United States.