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[ad_1] Manila, Philippines – The Joint Task Force COVID Shield will deploy officers with sticks on “social distancing patrols” to make sure people stay a good distance from each other, in accordance with regulations to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to the commander of the task force, Lieutenant. General …

[ad_1] (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland – Launching vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic will not by itself eliminate the deadly coronavirus, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The WHO cautioned against complacency and what it said was a mistaken belief that because vaccines are on …

[ad_1] A nurse cares for a Covid-19 positive patient at UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 4, 2020. – UMass Memorial Hospital had to convert one of its cardiac reduction units to a Covid-19 ICU due to the increase in patients. The United States recorded more than 210,000 …

[ad_1] ON Major General Juvymax Uy, commander of the 6th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army (right), inspects the new police car set on fire by Moorish gunmen linked to the Islamic State who attacked a predominantly Muslim community in Datu Piang city , Maguindanao province, on Thursday night. —FERDINAND …

[ad_1] The Baths Mayor Caesar Perez LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Two shots from a distance downed Los Baños Mayor César Pérez, the last local executive director tagged in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war and removed from the list by a bullet from an assassin. But even that accusation, for which …

[ad_1] Manila, Philippines – The government panel that handles the country’s COVID-19 response has enabled workshops, trainings, seminars, conventions, conferences, consumer trade fairs, board meetings, symposia and the like to be held in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ). But the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious …

[ad_1] Manila, Philippines – Maria Ressa, executive director of the news portal Rappler, has asked the Makati Regional Court of First Instance to dismiss the second cyber complaint against her by businessman Wilfredo Keng in a screenshot that Ressa posted on Twitter. Prosecutors found probable cause to indict Ressa for …

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden talks about the economy and his economic plan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic during a campaign stop at Local 951 in UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, October 2, 2020. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid WASHINGTON – …

[ad_1] Prague, Czech Republic – A 15-year-old Czech boy survived a fall from the 19th floor of an apartment block in Prague on Friday, police, rescuers and the media said. Czech media said the boy was lucky that his fall was interrupted by the roof over the building’s entrance. “They …

[ad_1] GENEVA – Recent progress on COVID-19 vaccines is positive, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern that this has led to a growing perception that the pandemic has come to an end, said Friday the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Britain approved Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine …