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LA Filipinos step up efforts to stop Covid-19 spread

Steve Angeles | TFC News Los Angeles
Posted at Jan 25 08:15 PM

Some Filipino community groups in Los Angeles are ramping up efforts to help stop the spread of Covid-19 as infections in the city surge. Read more »

Celebrity photographer Raymund Isaac passes on at 58

Mario Dumaual, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 05 02:42 PM

Veteran photographer Raymund Isaac, who pioneered innovative renditions of celebrity and fashion shoots of a wide array of stars and other personalities, died at age 58, on Sept. 3 in California. Read more »

SF mourns death of unvaccinated Fil-Am community leader with vaccination drive

Rommel Conclara | TFC News San Francisco, California
Updated as of Aug 27 02:01 PM

A vaccination drive was held at a memorial for an unvaccinated Fil-Am community leader who died of Covid-19 in San Francisco. Read more »

Hospital honors Fil-Am nurse who beat COVID-19 with room named after her

Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 08 07:18 PM

LONG BEACH, California - A hospital in Southern California honored a Filipino-American nurse who beat COVID-19 after eight months of being hospitalized with a room named after her.  Read more »

Theme parks, vaccinations and basketball: California gets back to normal

Andrew Marszal, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 16 10:25 AM

With infections plummeting, Governor Newsom relaxed California's tier-based criteria for reopening and has announced that all restrictions will be gone by mid-June. Read more »

California relaxes COVID-19 reopening rules for Disneyland, stadiums from April

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 06 09:41 AM

California on Friday paved the way for Disneyland, other theme parks and outdoor stadiums to welcome guests sooner than expected as it relaxed reopening criteria following a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases and pressure from operators.   Read more »

Thousands queue at COVID-19 vaccine 'super site'

Frederic J. Brown, AFP
Posted at Feb 03 10:02 AM

People arrive for their Covid-19 vaccines at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California on Tuesday. Thousands of residents registered to avail of the coronavirus vaccine at the first Covid-19 vaccine 'super site' in San Bernardino County, California's largest county, when it opened on Tuesday.  Read more »

Disneyland to become mass vaccination site in Orange County, California

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 04:32 PM

Walt Disney Co's Disneyland, which has remained closed since March, will become the first large site to provide COVID-19 vaccinations in Orange County, California, government officials announced late on Monday. Read more »

ICUs clogged on the way in, morgues on the way out in California's COVID crisis

Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
Posted at Jan 09 11:49 AM

Southern California is so overwhelmed with coronavirus cases that patients are backed up trying to get into hospitals, and corpses get stuck in another logjam once they leave.   Read more »

California dispatches dozens of trailers to store COVID victims

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 07:44 AM

California has distributed at least 166 refrigerated trailers to be used as temporary morgues by overwhelmed hospitals facing record COVID-related deaths, officials said Thursday. Read more »

Southern California goes into pandemic lockdown

Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 01:22 AM

From Los Angeles, to Orange County, down to San Diego and everything in between, Southern California is now shut down after having less than 15 percent of its hospital beds available. Read more »

Disneyland, California theme parks push for reopening

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 16 08:08 AM

Disneyland, Universal Studios and other theme parks have called on California officials to set out the health criteria required for them to reopen, warning that tens of thousands of jobs are at stake.   Read more »

'Stop partying', LA police warn Hollywood Hills neighborhood

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 27 11:05 AM

Authorities in Los Angeles have warned residents of the city's Hollywood Hills neighborhood to tone down their house parties which have become a major problem during the global coronavirus pandemic.   Read more »

New York, other states plan for reopening as coronavirus crisis eases

Maria Caspani and Jessica Resnick-Ault, Reuters
Posted at Apr 14 12:51 PM

Seven Northeastern US states and the three West Coast states banded together on Monday in regional pacts to forge coordinated, gradual economic reopenings as the coronavirus crisis finally appeared to be ebbing, while stressing the need for precautions to avoid a resurgence of infections. Read more »

Over 400 Filipinos from virus-struck US ship back in Philippines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 06:34 PM

(UPDATE) A total of 444 Filipinos from a virus-struck cruise ship that was stranded off California arrived in the Philippines before dawn on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Read more »

Thousands held on cruise ship off California over coronavirus fears

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 12:53 PM

Thousands were stranded on a cruise ship off the California coast Wednesday over fears of the new coronavirus after passengers and crew members on board developed symptoms. Read more »

California monitoring 8,400 people for possible coronavirus

Andrew Hay and Hilary Russ, Reuters
Posted at Feb 28 10:52 AM

California is monitoring more than 8,400 people who arrived on commercial flights for coronavirus symptoms from "points of concern," but the state lacks test kits and has been held back by federal testing rules, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday. Read more »