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Cheap diabetes drug reduces risk of long Covid: study

Daniel Lawler, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 09 08:53 AM

People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long Covid, a US-based study said Friday. Read more »

WHO chief hopes for 'historic' pandemic accord

Agence France Presse
Posted at May 22 06:43 AM

If agreed, the pandemic accord will mark only the second legally-binding health treaty since WHO was created 75 years ago. Read more »

Baguio bringing back mask mandate

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 16 07:11 PM

Baguio City is reimposing the mandatory use of face masks to curb an increase in COVID-19 infections, its mayor said. Read more »

Luis Manzano contracts COVID-19 for the first time

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 07 07:48 AM

Kapamilya host Luis Manzano is among the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the country. Read more »

COVID: No longer an emergency, but not going anywhere

Isabelle Cortes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 05 11:28 PM

Here is the current state of play for Covid, which WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said has now killed at least 20 million people. Read more »

DOH says no need to panic over COVID uptick

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 05:37 PM

The Department of Health on Thursday sought to allay concern over a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in the country. Read more »

Japan eyes bringing forward end of COVID-19 border controls

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 27 02:04 AM

Japan is making arrangements to bring forward the lifting of its current COVID-19 border control measures to Saturday. Read more »

Booster jabs encouraged amid slight uptick in COVID cases: DOH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 25 09:23 AM

A Department of Health official on Tuesday said more Filipinos must get their COVID-19 booster doses amid an uptick of cases in the country. Read more »

National COVID positivity rate at 8.8 pct: OCTA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 21 09:37 AM

The national COVID-19 positivity rate or the percentage of tests turning out positive for the virus has increased to 8.8 percent as of April 20, Thursday, OCTA Research said Friday. Read more »

67 million children missed out on vaccines because of COVID

Amélie Bottollier-Depois, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 20 02:07 PM

Some 67 million children partially or fully missed routine vaccines globally between 2019 and 2021 because of COVID. Read more »

WHO warns Covid pandemic still volatile

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 19 09:50 AM

In the last 28 days, more than 23,000 deaths and three million new cases have been reported to the WHO, in the context of much-reduced testing. Read more »

Biden ends US Covid emergency status

Agence France Presse
Posted at Apr 11 07:33 AM

US President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the Covid national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease. Read more »

India: What's behind the spike in COVID cases?

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Mar 29 07:03 AM

A new virus variant could be driving the rise in COVID-19 cases in India, but there is no need to panic, experts say. Read more »

Raccoon dog data sparks new debate about Covid origins

Daniel Lawler and Julien Dury, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 24 11:44 AM

New evidence that raccoon dogs were at the Chinese market where Covid is suspected to have first infected humans has reignited debate over the origin of the pandemic. Read more »

Did COVID-19 come from raccoon dogs?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 21 05:49 PM

Did COVID-19 come from raccoon dogs in Wuhan, China? An infectious disease expert on Tuesday said reports that a raccoon dog has been linked to the origin of the novel coronavirus warrant further investigation, saying the data could be used to prepare for another pandemic. Read more »

COVID-19: No evidence of mental health 'tsunami'

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Mar 15 07:22 AM

The pandemic had a minimal effect on depression and anxiety symptoms in the general population, says a new study. Read more »

FBI director: COVID 'most likely' caused by Wuhan lab accident

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 01 01:49 PM

FBI Director Christopher Wray said his agency believes the COVID-19 pandemic was 'most likely' caused by an incident in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Read more »

South Korea ends COVID visa restrictions for China travelers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 10 01:34 PM

South Korea said Friday it would begin issuing short-term visas to travelers from China again, ending a COVID-linked restriction. Read more »

Population immunity preventing COVID spike in PH: expert

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 09 09:44 AM

The increased number of Filipinos who have taken COVID-19 vaccines is keeping coronavirus infections down despite the entry of the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, an infectious disease expert said Thursday. Read more »

New Covid treatment cuts hospitalization rate by half: study

Agence France Presse
Posted at Feb 09 07:00 AM

A single-injection antiviral treatment for newly-infected Covid-19 patients reduced the risk of hospitalization by half in a large-scale clinical trial, according to a study published on Wednesday. Read more »