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Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 12 with 149 missing

Gabriella Borter, Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 11:23 AM

Search-and-rescue efforts stretched through a sixth day on Tuesday at the site of a collapsed Florida condominium complex where at least a dozen people died and 149 more remained missing amid fading hopes of finding anyone else alive.   Read more »

Death toll climbs to 11 in Florida condo collapse, 150 missing

Gabriella Borter, Reuters
Posted at Jun 29 11:40 AM

Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster. Read more »

Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 9: mayor

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 28 07:39 AM

The death toll after the collapse of a Florida apartment tower has risen to nine, the local mayor said Sunday, more than three days after the building pancaked as residents slept.   Read more »

PH confirms 6,096 new COVID-19 cases; 128 deaths

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 27 06:54 PM

The Department of Health also reported 6,912 new recoveries, pushing the total number of Filipinos who recovered from the disease to 1,321,050.  Read more »

Death toll from Florida building collapse climbs to 5

Cyril Julien, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 09:12 AM

The death toll from the partial collapse of a Florida high-rise apartment building rose to five on Saturday as officials continued to hold out hope for survivors, following the release of an engineering report from three years ago that warned of "major structural damage."   Read more »

More than 3.9 million dead, almost 180 million infected with COVID-19 worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 25 08:20 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,903,064 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT on Friday.   Read more »

China gives 1-billionth COVID shot, eyes ambitious vaccination target

Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Jun 23 03:57 AM

Authorities have set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 40 percent of China's nearly 1.4 billion people by the end of this month.    Read more »

Colombia death toll from COVID-19 tops 100,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 22 10:06 AM

Colombia's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 100,000-mark on Monday with a new 24-hour record of almost 650 deaths, the health ministry said.  Read more »

Philippines confirms 5,803 new cases of COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 20 04:15 PM

The Philippines confirmed 5,803 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday bringing the country’s total to 1,359,015. Read more »

Third pandemic wave hits as Brazil surpasses half million COVID deaths

Louis Genot, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 20 09:54 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Saturday crossed the grim threshold of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, trailing only the United States in lives lost to COVID-19. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 15, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 03:16 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Taking a breather

Timur Matahari, AFP
Posted at Jun 15 09:34 PM

Exhausted grave diggers rest in between funerals at a cemetery designated for COVID-19 victims in Bandung, Indonesia on Tuesday as infection numbers soar in the country. Read more »

More than 3.8 million dead, 176 million infected with COVID-19 worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 08:08 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,813,994 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT (6 p.m. Philippine time) on Tuesday.  Read more »

US COVID-19 deaths cross 600,000 milestone, as country reopens

Sharon Bernstein, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 15 11:52 AM

The toll is a painful reminder that death, sickness and grief continue even as the country begins to return to something resembling pre-pandemic normal. Read more »

Over 7,000 new COVID-19 cases confirmed; 137 new deaths recorded

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 13 04:11 PM

The Philippines confirmed 7,302 new cases of the COVID-19 on Sunday bringing the country’s total to 1,315,639. Read more »

More than 3.7 million dead, 173 million infected with COVID-19 worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 07:16 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,731,297 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT (6 p.m. Philippine time) on Monday. Read more »

PH confirms 7,058 new COVID-19 cases; over 100 deaths for 5th straight day

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 30 05:31 PM

The Philippines confirmed 7,058 new cases of the COVID-19 on Sunday bringing the country’s total to 1,223,627.  Read more »

More than 3.5 million dead, 168 million infected with COVID-19 worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 27 11:05 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,500,321 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT (6 p.m. Philippine time) on Thursday. Read more »

Brazil COVID death toll surpasses 450,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 26 07:34 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Covid-19 death toll surpassed 450,000 on Tuesday, as delays plague the hard-hit country's vaccine rollout and epidemiologists warned a brutal new surge of the virus could be coming. 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 »