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Over 2 million deaths and almost 95 million infected: COVID-19 tally as of Jan. 17

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 17 09:27 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2,022,740 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Sunday. Read more »

Higit 500,000 bagong negosyo nairehistro sa kabila ng pandemya: DTI

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 11:14 PM

Sa kabila ng pandemya, higit 500,000 bagong negosyo ang nairehistro sa bansa, ayon sa Department of Trade and Industry. Read more »

COVID-19 cases sa Pilipinas lampas kalahating milyon na

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 05:48 PM

Sumampa na sa lampas kalahating milyon ang kabuuang nagkasakit ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas.   Read more »

Bishop Pabillo sa mga deboto: Labanan ang pang-aabuso sa mga bata

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 06:53 PM

Hinimok ngayong Linggo ni Bishop Broderick Pabillo ang mga mananampalataya na labanan ang lumalalang problema ng pang-aabuso sa mga bata sa bansa. Read more »

Pandacan Church, tuloy ang pagdiriwang ng kapistahan kahit na sunog ang simbahan

Jekki Pascual, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 08:52 AM

Maraming deboto ng Sto. Niño ang dumalo pa rin sa mga misa sa Pandacan Church sa Maynila kahit na hindi pa tapos ang rehabilitasyon ng simbahan mula sa pagkakasunog noong nakaraang taon at konti lang ang kapasidad.  Read more »

Pagdiriwang sa Pista ng Sto Niño, nagsimula na sa Tondo

Jekki Pascual, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 17 08:29 AM

Maagang pumunta ang ilang deboto sa simbahan ng Sto. Niño de Tondo para sa Kapistahan ng Sto. Niño ngayong araw ng Linggo. Read more »

Serbia receives 1 million doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters
Posted at Jan 17 12:20 AM

President Vucic was accompanied by Beijing's ambassador to the Balkan country at Belgrade's airport, as containers carrying the vaccines were unloaded from a plane. Read more »

47 players quarantined after COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flights

Melanie Burton and Ian Ransom, Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 06:31 PM

Two dozen players who arrived from Los Angeles entered strict hotel quarantine after an aircrew member and Open participant tested positive for the new coronavirus. Read more »

TIPS: Mga dapat tutukan sa pagsa-sanitize, disinfect ng bahay

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 16 05:32 PM

Mahalaga ayon sa ilang eksperto ang pagpapa-disinfect ng bahay lalo na ngayong may coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.  Read more »

China reports 130 new mainland COVID-19 cases vs 144 a day earlier

Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 03:05 PM

This surge comes as a World Health Organization-led (WHO) team of investigators are in quarantine in the city of Wuhan, where the disease emerged in late 2019. The team aims to investigate the origins of the pandemic that has now killed nearly 2 million people worldwide.   Read more »

OCTA Group says yet to see impact of Nazarene feast, new COVID-19 variant on PH caseload

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 16 12:10 PM

MANILA - The OCTA Research Group said on Saturday that they have yet to see the effects of the Traslacion and the new variant of COVID-19 virus.   Read more »

Russia to reopen schools as COVID-19 case tally passes 3.5 million

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 11:35 PM

Russia will fully reopen schools across the country from next week and the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak may have passed its peak, authorities said on Friday, as the national case tally passed the 3.5 million mark. Read more »

International COVID-19 vaccine poll shows higher mistrust of Russia, China shots

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 11:27 PM

People across the world are generally likely to say yes to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, but would be more distrustful of shots made in China or Russia than those developed in Germany or the United States, an international poll showed on Friday. Read more »

Senators query PH government's preference for China vaccine after new efficacy data

Reuters
Updated as of Jan 15 10:39 PM

"There are other vaccines with a much higher efficacy at lower, if not more competitive, cost. Why are we insisting that we buy Sinovac?" Senator Franklin Drilon asked members of the government's coronavirus task force. Read more »

Biden chooses former FDA chief Kessler to help lead US vaccine drive

Trevor Hunnicutt, Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 10:15 PM

US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen David Kessler, the ex-head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to help lead the COVID-19 vaccine push, his transition team said on Friday. Read more »

Philippines includes UAE, Hungary in travel ban

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 09:43 PM

The government has banned until the end of the month the entry of foreign travelers from 32 other countries that reported the variant first detected in the UK. Read more »

Germany surpasses 2 million coronavirus cases, as death rate up

Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 09:32 PM

Germany surpassed 2 million coronavirus infections and the death toll from the pandemic reached almost 45,000, experts said on Friday, a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded "very fast action" to curb the deadly virus Read more »

'Bakunang ipadadala sa malalayong lugar ibabatay sa storage requirement'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 08:53 PM

Ibabatay sa storage requirements at hindi sa efficacy rate kung anong bakuna ang maipapadala sa malalayong lugar. Read more »

China envoy confirms delivery of Sinovac vaccines in PH 'as early as next month'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 06:32 PM

COVID-19 vaccines developed by China-backed pharmaceutical company Sinovac may arrive "as early as next month," Beijing's envoy confirmed Friday, as he cited "new era of partnership" between the two countries amid the pandemic.  Read more »

DTI backs easing pandemic age restriction on going out

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 04:24 PM

The Department of Trade and Industry said on Thursday it supports gradually easing of age restrictions down to 10 years old to boost the economy, which the COVID-19 pandemic dragged into recession.   Read more »