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Manila opens COVID-19 vaccination hub in UST

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 12:50 PM

People brave the rains as they line up to get their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Sto. Tomas Practice Gym in Sampaloc, Manila. Read more »

8 close contact ng Delta carrier sa Bacoor, positibo sa COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 12:25 PM

MAYNILA - Nagpositibo sa RT-PCR test ang walong close contact ng isa sa dalawang kaso ng Delta variant sa Bacoor, Cavite. Read more »

'Pinasalamatan lang kami': Pangakong benepisyo giit pa rin ng health workers matapos ang SONA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 11:24 AM

Pinasalamatan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang mga healthcare workers sa gitna ng COVID-19 pandemic, pero ayon sa Alliance of Health Workers, hindi ito sapat kung hindi naman matutugunan ang pangangailangan at mga pangako sa kanila ng gobyerno. Read more »

Ji Chang Wook tests positive for COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 27 11:05 AM

MAYNILA -- South Korean actor Ji Chang Wook, who starred in the drama series Healer, The K2 and Lovestruck in the City, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).   Read more »

QC to test factory workers after employee traced to Delta variant in another city

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 27 08:50 AM

MANILA - The Quezon City government will test all workers of a factory after one employee tested positive for COVID-19 and was traced as a close contact of a Delta virus patient in another city, an official said Tuesday. Read more »

Belgium offers COVID-19 vaccines to foreign sailors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 07:56 AM

BRUSSELS - Belgium on Monday launched a program to vaccinate foreign sailors at its bustling ports against Covid-19, with officials saying medical teams would board ships to give inoculations.  Read more »

World Bank to finance extra COVID jabs for poorer nations

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 05:54 AM

Under the World Bank financing arrangement, up to 430 million additional doses would be available for delivery between late 2021 and mid-2022 for 92 countries.  Read more »

White House: US will not lift travel restrictions, citing Delta variant

David Shepardson, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 27 03:43 AM

The announcement almost certainly dooms any bid by US airlines and the US tourism industry to salvage summer travel by Europeans and others covered by the restrictions.  Read more »

'Pray for salvation,' Duterte says in final SONA as threat of Delta variant looms over PH

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 01:20 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged Filipinos to "pray for salvation" from the possible spread of the more virulent Delta variant in the Philippines, saying the country could no longer afford another lockdown should there be a new surge in COVID-19 cases. Read more »

PH detects 84 cases of COVID-19 Delta variant in 4 days

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 12:22 AM

The highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant has been detected in more Philippine areas including Metro Manila's most populous city.  Read more »

Duterte delivers last SONA

Lisa Marie David, Reuters
Posted at Jul 27 12:04 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his 6th State of the Nation Address (SONA) as Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco listen, at the House of Representative in Quezon City on Monday.  Read more »

SONA 2021: Duterte tiniyak ang pagdating ng COVID-19 vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 11:30 PM

Tinuldukan ni Pangulong Duterte ang kanyang huling SONA sa pagtalakay sa mga hamon na dala ng COVID-19.  Read more »

Pasig City set to fully vaccinate all target elderly residents by August

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 11:00 PM

Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto on Monday said all elderly residents in the city have received at least 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Read more »

Over 350,000 more doses of Pfizer vaccine arrive in PH

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 27 06:50 AM

MANILA (UPDATE) - More than 350,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines on Monday, as the country scrambles against the threat of the more contagious Delta variant. Read more »

Longer curfew, liquor ban enforced anew in Cebu cities amid rise in COVID-19 cases

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 26 10:14 PM

Effective Monday, July 26, Cebu City will implement a liquor ban in the hopes of trying to curb an increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Read more »

Praying for healing

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 08:56 PM

People receive the holy communion during the celebration of the Holy Mass at the Our Lady of Remedies Parish, more popularly known as the Malate Catholic Church on Monday. Read more »

Indonesia loosens COVID-19 curbs despite warnings of another wave

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 26 06:46 PM

Small shops, streetside restaurants and some shopping malls reopened in coronavirus-battered Indonesia on Monday after the government loosened a shutdown despite warnings it could unleash another Covid-19 wave. Read more »

Tokyo's COVID cases top 1,000 anew amid Olympic Games

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 26 06:38 PM

Tokyo, hosting the Olympics while under a COVID-19 state of emergency, reported 1,429 new daily coronavirus cases on Monday, topping 1,000 for the seventh day in a row. Read more »

How the Delta variant upends assumptions about the coronavirus

Julie Steenhuysen, Alistair Smout and Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters
Posted at Jul 26 06:37 PM

The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, according to virologists and epidemiologists. Read more »

Malaysian doctors stage walkout amid worsening COVID-19 outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 26 06:36 PM

Hundreds of junior doctors at state-run Malaysian hospitals staged walkouts Monday demanding better conditions as the country faces its worst coronavirus outbreak yet. Read more »