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Philippines' COVID-19 deaths cross 23,000-mark; over 5,000 new cases confirmed

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 16 07:26 PM

The Philippines' death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to over 23,000 on Wednesday with 158 fresh fatalities reported, as the country also logged more than 5,000 additional infections.  Read more »

Taiwanese President apologizes for surge in COVID-19 deaths

Eduardo Baptista, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jun 13 02:00 PM

The island’s leader offers her ‘deepest sorrow and apologies’ to all those affected by the recent outbreak in a video posted on social media. The number of cases has surged in Taiwan in recent weeks and the death toll has now passed 400. Read more »

India records world's highest daily COVID-19 deaths after state revises numbers

Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 01:45 PM

India reported on Thursday the highest single-day death toll from COVID-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at home or in private hospitals. Read more »

DOH: High number of COVID-19 deaths due to rising fatalities outside NCR

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 07:00 PM

More than a half or most of the daily deaths registered in the past 2 weeks were cases "previously tagged as recoveries [but] were reclassified as deaths." Read more »

DOH: Mindanao accounted for 25 pct of COVID-19 cases in past week

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 05 06:13 PM

Mindanao has contributed about 25 percent of the fresh COVID-19 cases recorded in the past week, as the health department raised the alarm on the continued spike of infections outside the NCR Plus bubble on Saturday.  Read more »

PHOTO ESSAY: Witnessing the COVID chaos in India

Danish Siddiqui, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 08 02:25 PM

Covering the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as it tore through Indian cities, towns and villages was overwhelming at times. Patients died at home, in their cars on the way to hospital and outside emergency wards because there were no beds for them. Read more »

Brazilians bang pots in protest as another 2,500 die of COVID-19

Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 10:59 AM

Pot-banging protests erupted across several cities in Brazil on Wednesday evening as President Jair Bolsonaro addressed the nation, just days after protestors took to the streets across the country over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed almost half a million people here. Read more »

How to hope while grieving: Counselor gives tips on handling sadness, loss amid pandemic

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 29 03:52 PM

"We trust in ourselves that we are getting better and we are not getting worse. Hope is something that you do not see, but hope is something of great confidence in the future because we cannot have a great hope unless we have a great hope with God and hope with ourselves," the counselor said.  Read more »

Philippines posts 4,973 new COVID-19 cases

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 24 05:31 PM

The Philippines' total COVID-19 cases increased by 4,973 to 1,184,706 on Monday, data from the health department showed. Read more »

COVID-19 deaths lampas 100 kada araw sa nagdaang 5 araw

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 23 06:13 PM

Kung marami ang mga gumagaling, dapat ding bantayan ang COVID-19 deaths, na base sa datos mula sa DOH ay lampas 100 kada araw sa nakalipas na 5 araw. Read more »

India reports record 4,529 daily COVID-19 deaths

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 19 02:00 PM

India on Wednesday reported a record 4,529 coronavirus deaths in a single day even as the number of new cases in its devastating new wave fell. Read more »

India's COVID-19 tally passes 25 million

Reuters
Posted at May 18 04:24 PM

India's total COVID-19 caseload surged past 25 million on Tuesday as a powerful cyclone complicated the health crisis in one of the states where the disease is spreading most quickly. Read more »

More than 4,000 Indians die of COVID-19 for second straight day

Reuters
Posted at May 13 02:07 PM

India recorded more than 4,000 COVID-19 deaths for a second straight day on Thursday, while infections stayed below 400,000 for a fourth day, though the virus has become rampant in rural areas where cases can go unreported due to a lack of testing. Read more »

India COVID deaths soar past 250,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 01:07 PM

India's coronavirus death toll surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, official data showed, as the pandemic raged across the vast country of 1.3 billion people.   Read more »

India Covid-19 deaths surge past 4,000

Sanjay Kanojia, AFP
Posted at May 09 05:15 PM

Family members perform the last rites during the cremation of their loved one who died due to COVID-19 in Allahabad, India on Saturday. Read more »

India posts record daily rise in coronavirus deaths

Reuters
Updated as of May 05 03:47 PM

India's coronavirus deaths rose by a record 3,780 during the last 24 hours, a day after it became the second country to cross the grim milestone of 20 million infections after the United states.   Read more »

India COVID-19 cases soar past 20 million: official data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 01:38 PM

India's total COVID-19 caseload soared past 20 million on Tuesday, official data showed, as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the country's hospitals. Read more »

More international aid lands in India, as death toll hits record

Atish Patel and Glenda Kwek, with AFP Bureaus
Posted at May 03 06:49 AM

International aid to alleviate India's dire oxygen shortage arrived in the South Asian nation on Sunday, as its coronavirus death toll climbed to a grim new record.   Read more »

India's COVID-19 death toll passes 200,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 28 02:30 PM

India's coronavirus death toll passed 200,000 on Wednesday with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in 24 hours for the first time, official data showed.   Read more »

Registered voters who died from COVID-19 to be removed from Comelec list, says agency

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 27 04:25 PM

In an interview on ABS-CBN's TeleRadyo, Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said relatives of those who succumbed to COVID-19 must provide the information to their offices to help the agency remove the names from its list of registered voters. Read more »