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Philippines vaccination push extended until Dec 3

Benise Balaoing, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 02 08:56 AM

The government's national vaccination day is extended until Friday, December 3, the spokesperson of the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said. Read more »

Facebook hits anti-vaccine campaign harassing doctors

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 02 06:05 AM

Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday said it derailed an anti-Covid vaccine campaign that harassed medical workers, journalists and elected officials. Read more »

Omicron drives ‘worrying’ surge in S Africa COVID cases

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 02 04:31 AM

The ‘rapidly increasing number of new daily cases’ was ‘fueled by the variant’ dubbed Omicron, South Africa's health agency says. Read more »

Time to ‘think about mandatory vaccination’: EU chief

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 02 04:26 AM

Austria has announced compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations from February 1 next year and Germany is mulling following suit. Read more »

US reports first case of Omicron COVID variant

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 02 06:01 AM

The US Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday the traveler, who returned to the US from South Africa, 'had mild symptoms that are improving.' Read more »

No ML:BB team spared from training pain amid pandemic

Angela Coloma, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 02 12:38 AM

Pandemic uncertainty and constantly changing COVID protocols posed a challenge to ML:BB teams as they prepared for tournaments, club managers said. Read more »

Gov’t: At least 5M Pinoys jabbed in nat’l vaccine drive

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 11:07 PM

The government's pandemic task force said it would recommend the program be extended until Friday. Read more »

Gov’t officials slam latest COVID resilience ranking

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 11:00 PM

The Philippines found itself bottom of an international COVID-19 resilience list. Read more »

Molnupiravir inirekomendang gamitin sa mga may Omicron variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 07:06 PM

Maaari umanong ireseta ang gamot na molnupiravir sa mga pasyenteng mahahawahan ng Omicron variant ng COVID-19. Read more »

COVID-19 resilience ranking 'di patas: Duque

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 01 08:12 PM

Tinawag ngayong Miyerkoles na hindi patas ni Health Secretary Francisco Duque III ang panibagong COVID-19 resilience ranking ng Bloomberg. Read more »

5.1 milyon nabakunahan sa 2 araw ng COVID-19 vaxx days

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 01 08:14 PM

Hindi bababa sa 5.1 milyong Pilipino ang nabakunahan kontra COVID-19 sa unang 2 araw ng national vaccination days. Read more »

'Clustered' vaccination among colleges, universities pushed

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 05:07 PM

The Commission on Higher Education said Wednesday it was pushing for a clustering of COVID-19 vaccination among colleges and universities. Read more »

PH logs 500 new COVID-19 cases, 167 add'l deaths

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 01 05:34 PM

The Philippines announced 500 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the eighth consecutive day the daily tally fell below 1,000, data from the DOH showed. Read more »

1K casual staff ng Or. Mindoro, makakasahod na matapos ang 2 buwan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 03:54 PM

MAYNILA - Matatanggap na rin ng mga casual employees ng lokal na pamahalaan ng Oriental Mindoro ang kanilang naantalang sahod ng dalawang buwan. Read more »

National Vaccination drive sa Tuguegarao, dinagsa

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 03:12 PM

MAYNILA - Maganda ang naging tugon ng Tuguegarao sa Cagayan sa bayanihan bakunahan National COVID-19 vaccination drive ng pamahalaan. Read more »

Senators to gov't: Give booster shots to private sector workers

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 02:56 PM

At least three senators on Wednesday urged the government to consider allowing workers in the private sector to get booster shots against COVID-19. Read more »

COVID vaccination should be mandatory: official

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 02:40 PM

Vaccination should be made mandatory, the chairman of the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said Wednesday as the country wrapped up its 3-day inoculation drive. Read more »

Omicron could outcompete Delta, says disease expert

Alexander Winning, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 02:33 PM

The Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa could be the most likely candidate to displace the highly contagious Delta variant, the director of South Africa's communicable disease institute said on Tuesday. Read more »

UNICEF: 1 child infected with HIV every 2 min. in 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 01 03:05 PM

One child was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) every 2 minutes in 2020, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report Wednesday. Read more »

Mas mababa sa 500 average COVID cases asahan— OCTA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 01:55 PM

Kung wala umanong banta ng Omicron, maaari nang ibaba sa Alert Level 1 ang ilang lugar. Read more »