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DFA: 6 more overseas Filipinos test positive for COVID-19; total now at 2,461

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 05:43 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday 6 more Filipinos abroad were sick with COVID-19, raising the total tally of overseas infections among Filipino nationals to 2,461. Read more »

British drugmaker to make billion COVID vaccine doses if tests succeed

Aakash B, Reuters
Posted at May 21 05:25 PM

The British drugmaker said it had signed the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University. Read more »

US orders 300 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters
Updated as of May 21 06:37 PM

The US government has ordered 300 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and hopes first doses can be made available by October, the Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.   Read more »

Duque: Wala pang ebidensiya na nakakahawa ang asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 21 11:50 AM

Sa pinakahuling report ng World Health Organization (WHO), walang ebidensiya na nagpapakita na nakakahawa ang mga asymptomatic, ayon kay Duque. Read more »

IATF adviser: 'Tawagin na lang nating next wave para walang away'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 02:22 AM

Instead of concentrating on semantics, focus should instead shift to preparing for another resurgence of COVID-19, he said. Read more »

Coronavirus strain in PH likely to have originated from India, expert says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 12:46 AM

A health expert said Wednesday the version of the SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in the Philippines could have originated from India. Read more »

US pharma firm says COVID-19 vaccine produces antibodies in mice, guinea pigs

Deena Beasley, Reuters
Posted at May 20 08:38 PM

Inovio, which began human testing of its vaccine in April, said preliminary results from that trial are expected in June.  Read more »

Nurse who struggled with COVID-19 trauma later found dead in his car

Gabriella Borter, Reuters
Posted at May 20 08:04 PM

Frontline health-care workers are trying to cope with the trauma of treating the novel coronavirus, which has inundated US hospitals with desperately ill patients and killed more than 90,000 Americans in less than 3 months. Read more »

Cambodia lifts entry ban from six countries as coronavirus eases

Reuters
Posted at May 20 07:05 PM

Cambodia has lifted a ban on entry of visitors from Iran, Italy, Germany, Spain, France and the United States that had been put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus, the health ministry said on Wednesday. Read more »

Coronavirus behaving differently in China's northeast clusters, expert says

Reuters
Posted at May 20 06:38 PM

Patients in the northeastern clusters were also carrying the virus for longer than earlier cases in Wuhan, and they were taking longer to recover. Read more »

Filipinos abroad sick with COVID-19 now at 2,455

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 20 06:35 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday 24 more Filipinos abroad were sick with COVID-19, raising the total tally of overseas infections among Filipino nationals to 2,455. Read more »

Russia's coronavirus cases surge to 300,000 but WHO says situation is stabilizing

Reuters
Posted at May 20 05:41 PM

Russia's 8,764 new novel coronavirus infections took the nationwide total to 308,705. But the daily increase was the lowest since May 1. Read more »

Duque’s statement on COVID-19 ’second wave’ confuses experts

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 20 06:30 PM

The Philippines is still dealing with the current stream of COVID-19 infections, contrary to its health minister’s announcement that the country was now experiencing a “second wave,” medical experts said Wednesday Read more »

IATF eyes lockdown per barangay as gov't eases quarantine restrictions

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 20 12:32 AM

MANILA - The Philippine government may implement lockdowns per barangay as it relaxes coronavirus restrictions nationwide, National Task Force Against COVID-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Tuesday. Read more »

Some signs children may not transmit COVID-19, two UK epidemiologists say

Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters
Posted at May 19 11:36 PM

The signs are that children may not spread it as much as adults, Dr Rosalind Eggo of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.   Read more »

Afghan doctors protest over unpaid salaries amid coronavirus outbreak

Storay Karimi, Reuters
Posted at May 19 11:27 PM

More than 200 doctors and medical staff took part in protests in the western Afghan city of Herat on Tuesday, saying they had not been paid for 3 months while risking their lives to treat coronavirus patients.   Read more »

US praises Taiwan's coronavirus response, hails 'shared vision'

Reuters
Posted at May 19 11:13 PM

"The recent COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for the international community to see why Taiwan’s pandemic-response model is worthy of emulation." Read more »

UK coronavirus toll over 40,000; 10,000 deaths in care homes

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 19 11:04 PM

Britain is the worst-hit country in Europe, and the government has been criticized heavily for its response to the outbreak. Read more »

Duque: New COVID-19 wave possible if Metro Manila shifts to general quarantine too soon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 19 08:27 PM

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Tuesday warned of the third wave of COVID-19 infections once the government relaxes lockdown restrictions without mass testing. Read more »

DFA reports 21 more COVID-19 recoveries among Filipinos abroad

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 19 05:47 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday confirmed that another 21 Filipinos abroad have survived from COVID-19, bringing the total tally of overseas recoveries among Filipino nationals to 849. Read more »