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How COVID-19 lockdowns changed attitudes to sex and relationships

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 12 01:05 PM

While the COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental effect on many people’s sex lives, in some cases it has strengthened the emotional bond between couples. Read more »

Malaysia tightens lockdown in some states as coronavirus cases surge

Kyodo News
Posted at Jan 11 10:41 PM

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced Monday stricter lockdown rules for the nation's capital Kuala Lumpur and several states following a surge in coronavirus infection cases that he said have stretched the country's health care system to breaking point.   Read more »

London on third COVID-19 lockdown

Tolga Akmen, AFP
Posted at Jan 09 02:00 PM

A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks past a stand with copies of the Evening Standard newspaper in central London on Friday, as England entered a third lockdown due to COVID-19. Read more »

Boxing: In training return, Nesthy Petecio vows to go all out to reach Olympics

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 07 02:39 AM

Petecio settled for online training sessions during the pandemic, but she acknowledged being limited by restrictions enforced due to the pandemic. Read more »

Duterte wants cybercrime experts to probe alleged sale of students' sexy photos, videos

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 06 11:22 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte will summon cybercrime units and experts to look into reports that some students have been selling obscene photos and videos of themselves online to support their studies, an ally said on Wednesday.  Read more »

UK lockdown causes biggest drop in new car sales since World War 2

Costas Pitas, Reuters
Posted at Jan 06 09:45 AM

British new car sales fell nearly 30 percent last year in their biggest annual drop since 1943 as lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus hit the sector, a trade industry body said on Wednesday. Read more »

BBC to provide biggest education offering as England begins new lockdown

Reuters
Posted at Jan 06 04:55 AM

LONDON - The BBC said on Tuesday it would be providing its biggest education offer in its history as England and Scotland entered new lockdowns, which will see most children out of school. Read more »

Britons ordered to stay at home as third national lockdown begins

Estelle Shirbon and Natalie Thomas, Reuters
Posted at Jan 05 08:26 PM

Britain began its third COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday with citizens under orders to stay at home and the government calling for one last major national effort to stem the virus before mass vaccinations turn the tide. Read more »

England goes into new lockdown as COVID-19 variant rampages

William Schomberg and Elizabeth Piper, Reuters
Posted at Jan 05 07:02 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases that threatens to overwhelm parts of the health system before a vaccine program reaches a critical mass. Read more »

Duterte OKs GCQ classification for Metro Manila, 7 areas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 01 04:10 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has approved extending the general community quarantine classification for the capital region and 7 other areas until the end of January, Malacañang said on Friday. Read more »

World begins ushering in locked-down New Year

Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 01 12:58 AM

From Sydney to Rome, firework displays, pyre burnings and live performances will be watched online or on TV -- if they have not been cancelled altogether.  Read more »

Sulu asks for more boats to secure borders during 2-week lockdown

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 31 02:56 PM

Sulu has requested from the national government additional watercraft to secure its borders when it implements a 2-week lockdown in January against a potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant, its governor said Thursday. Read more »

New COVID-19 virus variant a 'downside' to PH economic recovery: economist

Bruce Rodriguez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 30 08:18 PM

The new variant of the COVID-19 virus is posing a downside risk for the Philippines' economic recovery, an economist said Wednesday. Read more »

Sulu on lockdown Jan. 4-17 due to new coronavirus variant

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 30 02:14 PM

Sulu will go on lockdown in early January to prevent the spread of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant, the province's governor said on Wednesday. Read more »

Sulu mulls lockdown over new COVID-19 variant in nearby Sabah

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 04:29 PM

Sulu province is considering a lockdown and is asking President Rodrigo Duterte to ban Filipinos returning from nearby Sabah, which has reportedly recorded a new, more contagious coronavirus variant first observed in the UK.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 28, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 12:36 AM

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

Vatican under lockdown

Filippo Monteforte, AFP
Posted at Dec 28 09:20 AM

A policeman patrols on an empty St. Peter's Square as the Pope delivers a private live-streamed weekly Angelus prayer from the palace's library in the Vatican, on Sunday Read more »

Israel speeds vaccines, locks down in hope of March exit from pandemic

Dan Williams, Reuters
Posted at Dec 28 06:52 AM

Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March. Read more »

‘We are indebted’: Duterte lauds doctors in PH fight vs COVID-19, new strain

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 26 11:48 PM

Duterte thanked the medical experts who joined him and the task force at the Malacañang briefing to help clarify issues surrounding the B.1.1.7 variant found in the UK. Read more »

New lockdowns ‘not sustainable,’ if new COVID strain found in PH, say experts

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 28 04:32 AM

The recommendations by medical practitioners present during the televised briefing ran counter to the government task force’s suggestions, which lobbied for harsher measures, including, should the situation warrant, a lockdown.    Read more »