Health

[ad_1] TOKYO – A mobile app could be among the measures used to track the health of foreign fans if they are allowed to attend next year’s Tokyo Olympics. An interim report on contingencies for the Tokyo Games was released on Wednesday. It was compiled by the Japanese government, the …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Quezon City shortened the curfew from midnight to 3 a.m. from December 16 to allow people to attend Simbang Gabi, although basic health protocols will continue to be strictly enforced for holiday celebrations. In a statement, Mayor Joy Belmonte said churches should only absorb 30 percent …

[ad_1] In the US, COVID-19 vaccines are right around the corner, leaving the entire country staring out the window in anticipation of their arrival. Health officials and systems, already taxed by the skyrocketing cases, make sure everything is ready when they show up. Here are some things that are still …

[ad_1] Los Angeles County set records Friday for the most new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations for the third time in a single week. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday’s numbers would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago and called the increase “the greatest threat to life” the …

[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 5) – Senator Christopher “Bong” Go urges the vaccine czar, Carlito Gálvez, Jr., and the secretary of health, Francisco Duque III, to take the first injections once the coronavirus vaccines are available in the country . In an online press conference on Saturday, Go …

[ad_1] MOSCOW – Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine through 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The task force said the Russian-made vaccine would first be made available to doctors and other medical workers, teachers and …

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Colored scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with particles of the SARS-COV-2 virus (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …

[ad_1] A police officer displays safety reminder signage along a busy Ylaya Street in Divisoria, Manila, on December 3, 2020. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News MANILA – The health department registered 1,733 additional cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the country’s accumulated to 438,069. This is the sixth day in a …

[ad_1] “There is no detailed plan that we’ve seen anyway for how to get the vaccine out of a container, into an injection syringe, onto someone’s arm,” Biden said at an event in Wilmington, Delaware. “It’s going to be very difficult to do that and it is a very expensive …

[ad_1] PARIS, Dec.5 (Xinhua) – With 11,221 people testing positive for coronavirus in a 24-hour span and the number of cases nationwide approaching 2.27 million, France on Friday continued a downward trend in numbers. infections, data from health authorities showed. The daily figure was lower than Thursday’s 12,696 and well …