[ad_1] MORE than 30,400 Filipinos in Israel received the free Pfizer vaccine to protect them against the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Rafael Harpaz said Wednesday. In a statement, the envoy said: “Free access to the Covid-19 vaccine is another way of thanking them and ensuring …
Read More »England finds 2 HP-related COVID-19 variant cases
[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 17) – In England, two cases of variant P.3 have been found, detected for the first time in the Philippines. “One of the cases is related to international travel and the other is currently under investigation,” Public Health England or PHE said in a …
Read More »Gálvez says that 30 million doses of the Covid-19 Novavax vaccine will reach the second half of 2021
[ad_1] At least 30 million doses of the Covid-19 Novavax vaccine are expected to arrive in the country in the second half of the year. The main executor of the government’s national policy on Covid-19, Carlito G. Galvez, said he signed the supply agreement with the vaccine’s maker, Serum Institute …
Read More »Two drug giants to develop a cure for HIV – The Manila Times
[ad_1] CLEVELAND: US pharmaceutical companies Gilead and Merck announced on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) that they have partnered to develop a new therapy for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that could replace daily medications with a treatment that can be taken at longer intervals. prolonged. The companies aim to combine …
Read More »The ban on minors outdoors takes effect again today
[ad_1] Minors have again been banned from going outside for two weeks starting today, Wednesday March 17, 2021, in an attempt to halt the rise in Covid-19 cases in the National Capital Region (NCR). The Manila Metropolitan Development Authority (MMDA) announced Tuesday that only people between the ages of 18 …
Read More »Tesla, Nikola and the rarity of EV stocks
[ad_1] Tesla CEO and “Technoking” Elon Musk Britta Pedersen-Pool / Getty Images Text size It’s getting weird in EV-land and this time it’s not just Tesla. Should investors be concerned? Electric vehicle investors are used to a bit of weirdness. After all, there are tweets from Elon Musk with a …
Read More »The continuous blockade and the slow vaccination campaign threaten the recovery of PH
[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 16) – The Philippines’ failure to contain the coronavirus despite a one-year lockdown, compounded by its slow rollout of vaccination, will continue to weigh the country’s path to recovery and normalcy, Moody’s Analytics said. Maintaining its position since its Nov. 19 report, Moody’s Analytics …
Read More »GDP before the pandemic will return a little earlier, but it is still lagging
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ return to pre-pandemic level is likely to come 3 months early next year, but the growth that would make that happen will do little to save the country from being Asia Pacific’s laggard. Since the fourth quarter of 2022, Moody’s Analytics now sees the …
Read More »Jabs in isolation: how a remote Portuguese island dodged COVID-19
[ad_1] The abandoned ship “Perola do Corvo” (the pearl of Corvo) is shown ashore on the island of Corvo in the Azores on March 10, 2021. With occasional shortages of gasoline and fruit, Corvo is no stranger to the dangers of isolation, But its remoteness has had an important advantage: …
Read More »Countries should continue to launch AstraZeneca – WHO
[ad_1] GENEVA – Countries should continue to use AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after many governments halted launches due to fears of blood clots. “We don’t want people to panic and for now we would recommend that countries continue to vaccinate with AstraZeneca,” WHO chief …
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