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India reports 3,998 COVID-19 deaths after state corrects its data

Reuters
Posted at Jul 21 03:20 PM

India reported its highest death toll in a month on Wednesday - at nearly 4,000 - after its richest state reconciled its death count with 3,509 previously unreported fatalities, the health ministry said. Read more »

India's COVID-19 deaths 10 times higher than reported: study

Glenda Kwek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 20 08:45 PM

India's coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country's worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday. Read more »

Indonesia reports record number of doctor deaths from COVID-19 in July

Reuters
Updated as of Jul 18 11:04 PM

Deaths of doctors from COVID-19 in Indonesia rose sharply in the first half of July, according to the profession's association, as the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus fuelled a surge in infections across the country. Read more »

Death toll in German floods rises to at least 81

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 16 03:15 PM

Authorities in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate said Friday that 50 people have died in devastating floods in the western state, bringing the national death toll to at least 81, with dozens more missing. Read more »

Davao Oriental COVID-19 patient who died tested positive for South African variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 09 01:23 AM

One of the latest cases of COVID-19-related deaths in Davao Oriental province has been confirmed to be positive for the South African coronavirus variant. Read more »

Thai authorities propose tighter curbs as COVID-19 deaths climb

Reuters
Posted at Jul 08 03:08 PM

Thailand's health ministry said Thursday it had proposed new travel curbs and tighter restrictions in high-risk areas to contain COVID-19 cases, as the country reported a daily record of 75 deaths from the coronavirus. Read more »

World passes 4 million COVID deaths as Asia battles fresh outbreaks

Robin Millard with AFP bureaus
Posted at Jul 08 08:25 AM

GENEVA, Switzerland - More than four million people have now died from Covid-19, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as many rich nations prepare to loosen restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections. Read more »

PSA: Heart diseases, cancer among leading cause of death in Philippines in 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 08:40 PM

Based on the state statistics agency’s report on Monday, 105,110 Filipinos died because of ischaemic heart diseases or illnesses causing oxygen deprivation in the heart, accounting for 17.1 percent of the total fatalities in the country.  Read more »

Philippines logs over 20,000 probable COVID-19 deaths in 2020 - PSA report

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 06 08:26 PM

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has recorded 20,840 probable COVID-19 deaths last year, aside from 9,300 confirmed ones, it said in its latest report. Read more »

Vaccinate or repent: Russian church admonishes amid growing COVID-19 deaths

Reuters
Posted at Jul 06 03:00 AM

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 270,000 deaths related to COVID-19 from April 2020 to April 2021. Read more »

Russia's COVID-19 death toll hits record high for fifth day

Reuters
Posted at Jul 04 12:02 AM

Russia on Saturday reported 697 coronavirus-related deaths, the most confirmed in a single day since the pandemic began. Read more »

Philippines 'low risk' for COVID-19, officials say

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 02:37 AM

The Philippines have now been tagged by health officials as low risk for COVID-19. Read more »

Visayas, Mindanao areas still at higher risk for COVID infections

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 11:42 PM

The Philippines' daily COVID are cases on a downtrend after a surge in April. But four areas in Visayas and Mindanao regions are still at higher risk for infections. Read more »

Brazil reaches 500,000 COVID-19 deaths

Lucas Landau, Reuters
Posted at Jun 21 07:34 PM

Brazil has passed 500,000 COVID-19 related deaths, the second-highest in the world, even as experts say the outbreak could even worsen amid slow vaccination.  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 »

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 »

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 »

Duterte’s drug war: Lies and death certificates

Dada Grifon, PCIJ/PCP
Updated as of Jun 14 08:43 AM

Even in death, the State treats victims of extrajudicial killings as mere “collateral damage” in the Duterte administration’s bloody anti-drug war. The families of the victims choose to remember their lost loved ones with dignity, something that was denied of them when their deaths were covered up by falsified death certificates. 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 »