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Snap lockdown ordered in Australia's Brisbane after virus outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 07:58 AM

BRISBANE, Australia - More than two million people in Brisbane were ordered into a three-day lockdown Monday after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia's third-biggest city. Read more »

DOH: Majority of P.3 variant cases came from Region 7

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 18 10:23 AM

Majority of coronavirus cases of the P.3 variant first detected in the Philippines were discovered in Central Visayas, a health official said Thursday. Read more »

'COVID-19 cases posibleng lumobo kung di mapipigilan ang UK variant'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 10 06:55 PM

Nagbabala ang isang eksperto na posibleng umabot ng hanggang 9 na beses ang dami ng nagkaka-COVID-19 dahil sa paglaganap ng mas nakahahawang variant at pagbalewala sa health protocols.  Read more »

DOT kampante sa pagbubukas ng turismo sa kabila ng COVID-19 variants

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 10 04:44 PM

Sa kabila ng mga naitatalang kaso ng sinasabing mas nakahahawang coronavirus variant, puwede pa ring ipagpatuloy ang turismo sa bansa basta’t nasusunod ng mga turista ang minimum health protocols, sabi ngayong Miyerkoles ni Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. Read more »

Pagdami ng COVID-19 cases bumilis dahil sa variants: OCTA Research

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 07 08:48 PM

Naniniwala ang OCTA Research Group na mas bumilis ang pagdami ng mga kaso ng COVID-19 dahil sa United Kingdom at South African variants ng virus na natuklasan sa bansa.   Read more »

Pagdami ng COVID-19 cases posibleng dahil sa mga bagong variant: OCTA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 09:41 PM

Inihayag ng OCTA Research Group na posibleng ang mga bagong variant ng COVID-19 ang sanhi ng pagtaas ng mga kaso ng naturang sakit sa ilang lugar sa bansa.   Read more »

Australia moves closer to pre-pandemic life, COVID-19 reined in for now

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 27 08:19 PM

Life across Australia inched toward pre-pandemic normal on Saturday, with New South Wales and South Australia states allowing some dancing and Victoria permitting larger crowds at sporting events. Read more »

2 taga-Riverside sa QC positibo sa COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 09:30 PM

Dalawa ang positibo sa COVID-19 sa higit 200 residente na na-swab test sa Riverside Area sa Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City. Read more »

England's quarantine hotels open in bid to keep COVID variants out

Reuters
Posted at Feb 15 10:09 AM

LONDON - Passengers arriving in England from Monday from any of 33 "red list" countries will have to spend 14 days quarantined in a hotel room under new border restrictions designed to stop new variants of the coronavirus. Read more »

UK's virus jabs pass 15 million, as New Zealand orders city lockdown

Joe Jackson in London and AFP bureaus, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 15 07:37 AM

LONDON - Britain's coronavirus vaccination program passed the 15 million mark on Sunday, hours after New Zealand, so far largely spared by the pandemic, ordered its largest city into lockdown.   Read more »

Mga bakuna kontra COVID-19, epektibo pa rin sa new variants: health expert

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 12 04:19 PM

Epektibo pa sa ngayon laban sa anumang variant ng COVID-19 ang mga bakunang inaasahang darating at gagamitin sa bansa, ito ang pagtitiyak ng isang infectious disease expert. Read more »

Melbourne enters new lockdown, barring Australian Open crowds

Swati Pandey and Renju Jose, Reuters
Updated as of Feb 12 12:46 PM

Australia's second-most populous city will enter a 5-day snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators for much of the Australian Open tennis tournament.   Read more »

QC may malawakang contact tracing matapos ang bagong kaso ng UK variant ng COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 11 08:16 PM

MAYNILA - Nagsasagawa na ngayong malawakang testing at contact tracing ang lokal na pamahalaan ng Quezon City sa komunidad kung saan tumira ang pasyenteng nag-positibo sa UK variant ng COVID-19.   Read more »

Government allocates P362 million for COVID-19 genome sequencing

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 04 01:04 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's Cabinet has allocated an additional P362 million to fund the country's genome sequencing efforts for the whole year, which would help identify new COVID-19 variants, an official said on Thursday.  Read more »

DOH needs additional P362 million for genome sequencing

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 01 04:01 PM

MANILA - The Department of Health is requesting some P362 million to fund the country's genome sequencing efforts for the whole year, which would help identify new COVID-19 variants. Read more »

DOH nakatutok sa lahat ng lugar para sa UK variant ng COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 29 01:15 PM

MAYNILA - Patuloy na minomonitor ng Department of Health ang kaso ng mas nakahahawang variant ng COVID-19 sa bansa.   Read more »

Contact tracing sa Bontoc dahil sa UK variant, puspusan na

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 07:26 PM

Puspusan ang contact tracing sa mga nakasalamuha ng umuwing OFW noong Disyembre na nagpunta sa Mountain Province. Read more »

Pfizer-BioNTech say COVID-19 vaccine works against UK, S. Africa variants

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 28 04:33 PM

Pfizer and BioNTech, makers of a COVID-19 vaccine, said on Thursday that their product is effective against coronavirus variants that have emerged in Britain and South Africa. Read more »

PH expands ban to foreign travelers from Czech Republic over new COVID-19 variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 10:14 PM

MANILA - Foreign travelers from the Czech Republic are banned from entering the Philippines from Jan. 28 until Jan. 31, Malacañang said Friday, after the UK COVID-19 variant was detected in the European country. Read more »

Wala pang nakikitang community transmission ng UK variant sa Bontoc: DOH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 07:33 PM

Ito ay kahit na may koneksiyon ang isang biyahero mula UK sa COVID-19 infection cluster sa bayan.  Read more »