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Tokyo Olympics: Athletes parade through empty stadium in no-frills opening ceremony

Antoni Slodkowski, Elaine Lies and Kiyoshi Takenaka, Reuters
Posted at Jul 23 08:47 PM

TOKYO - In an opening ceremony marked by simplicity, one tradition held on Friday as athletes paraded into the Olympic stadium by national groups, waving but with smiles hidden behind masks, and most having both male and female flagbearers for the first time. Read more »

Duque urges LGUs with limited COVID-19 testing capacity to ramp up 'symptoms screening'

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 22 05:59 PM

Health Secretary Francisco Duque said Thursday local government units (LGUs) with finite testing capacity for COVID-19 should employ "very aggressive" detection, isolation and contact-tracing measures to "cut the chain of transmission" amid the threat of the Delta variant. Read more »

The pandemic’s odd effect on birth rates and pregnancies

South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jul 22 12:03 PM

Early in the pandemic, there were predictions that stay-at-home orders would spawn a baby boom. This month, Fatherly ran a sequel titled, "The Covid-19 Baby Boom is a Lie." Read more »

Grupo ng Pinoy sa Malaysia, tumutulong sa kapwa OFW na hirap ngayong pandemya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 20 04:14 PM

MAYNILA - Isang grupo ng mga Pilipino sa Kuala Lumpur sa Malaysia ang nagbibigay-tulong sa mga kababayang nangangailangan sa gitna ng COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

WHO: China must cooperate better with COVID-19 origin probe

Christophe Vogt, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 02:05 AM

The WHO chief said his agency was laying the groundwork for moving forward with fresh investigations into where COVID-19 came from.  Read more »

Surviving the pandemic

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 14 05:18 PM

A vendor offers bottled water while passengers wait at a bus terminal along Zapote Road in Las Pinas City on Wednesday. Read more »

Pagbabakuna ng first dose ng COVID-19 vaccine tuloy sa Caloocan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 13 07:04 AM

Sa South Caloocan may 1,500 slots sa 3 vaccination sites, habang sa North Caloocan may 1,200 slots for first dose. Read more »

Consumer groups call for more spending on water infrastructure amid COVID-19 pandemic

Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 12 07:17 PM

Water for the People, Kadamay, Bayan Muna, and other civil society and consumer groups advocating for universal access to clean water and other water services say the government’s failures in developing a reliable water system for all contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines.  Read more »

Indonesia in oxygen emergency as Delta variant wreaks global havoc

Peter Brieger with Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Jul 07 06:49 AM

Indonesia said Tuesday it was importing emergency oxygen from neighboring Singapore as hospitals crumbled under the weight of COVID-19, while the Delta variant wrought havoc around the globe. Read more »

Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work

Aftab Ahmed and Saurabh Sharma, Reuters
Posted at Jul 06 01:40 PM

The coronavirus and a lockdown aimed at stopping it last year saw millions of people thrown out of jobs in cities and towns and forced back to villages in India, and ever higher levels of debt.   Read more »

India's death toll from coronavirus crosses 400,000

Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 03:38 PM

India reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the health care system and crematoriums. Read more »

Repatriated Filipinos amid COVID-19 pandemic reach 1.2 million

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 28 11:17 PM

MANILA - More than 1.2 million Filipinos have been repatriated or have gone home to the Philippines since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of last year. Read more »

Why this Pinay in Bosnia and Herzegovina has 'no fear' during pandemic

Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 27 02:41 AM

The Sibincic family farm life bliss in Bosnia and Herzegovina traces its beginnings to a cruise ship where Ivy and husband Slaven, an agriculturist, worked together.  Read more »

Halos 500 manggagawa sa showbiz nabakunahan kontra COVID-19 sa loob ng 3 oras

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 25 02:22 PM

Sa loob lamang ng tatlong oras, umabot sa 477 na manggagawa sa entertainment industry ang nabakunahan kontra COVID-19 sa tulong ng lokal na pamahalaan ng Quezon City, ayon kay Film Development Council of the Philippines chairperson Liza Diño.  Read more »

Duterte hinimok ang mga eksperto na pagplanuhan ang COVID-19 Delta variant response

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 07:38 PM

Ipinag-utos ni Pangulong Duterte sa mga eksperto na magplano laban sa mas nakakahawang COVID-19 Delta variant.  Read more »

36 lugar, karamihan sa VisMin, tinututukan dahil sa COVID-19 cases

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 08:07 PM

Dahil dito, ilang lugar sa Visayas at Mindanao ang pinatawan ng mas mahigpit na quarantine restrictions.  Read more »

Graduation in Wuhan

AFP
Posted at Jun 15 10:39 AM

More than 2000 students who could not attend the graduation ceremony last year due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, attend a graduation ceremony at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China. Read more »

G7: COVID-19 recovery as top agenda

Patrick Semansky, Reuters/Pool
Posted at Jun 12 10:51 AM

The G7 summit got going in Britain with the COVID-19 pandemic recovery on top of the agenda, including a commitment to share 1 billion vaccine doses with poorer countries.  Read more »

Global plastics production falls for first time since 2008

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 10 05:40 PM

PARIS - Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen, an industry body said Thursday. Read more »

COVID-19 wards ng Bicol Medical Center nasa full capacity na

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 08:51 PM

Nasa full capacity na ang mga COVID ward sa Bicol Medical Center maging sa ilang probinsiya.  Read more »