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[ad_1] The country’s inflation rate rose to a 21-month high of 3.3 percent in November as prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages rose, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday. The figure was up from 2.5 percent in October and 1.3 percent a year ago. It also violated Bangko …

[ad_1] PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte renewed his call for universal access to a vaccine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), saying it would be a “great injustice” if poor or developing countries were left behind on the road to recovery. of the global health crisis. URGENT APPEAL President Rodrigo Duterte renews …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – American leaders urgently called on Americans to wear masks and threatened even more drastic stay-at-home orders after coronavirus deaths set a single day record, with two people dying every minute. More than 213,830 new cases and 2,861 deaths were reported on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally …

[ad_1] Joe Biden has asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, to maintain his central role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic once Biden takes office, he said yesterday during an interview on CNN. “I asked him to stay in exactly the same position that he had during …

[ad_1] As the world tires of financially crippling restrictions, attention has turned to the race for a vaccine. The world passed the grim milestone of 1.5 million coronavirus deaths on Thursday as several nations planned to deliver long-awaited vaccines early next year to break the cycle of lockdowns and restrictions. …

[ad_1] Britain’s drug regulator insisted on Friday that its first global approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine met all safety standards, after officials in Europe and the United States raised questions about the speedy process. In this file illustration photo taken on November 17, 2020, vials with attached Covid-19 vaccine …

[ad_1] Health workers assist evacuees at the Malanday Elementary School Evacuation Center in the city of Marikina on November 23, 2020. Jonathan Cellona, ​​ABS-CBN News MANILA – The World Health Organization multi-country clinical trial for COVID-19 vaccines will likely begin early next year, according to the Philippine panel of vaccine …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The number of patients with active coronavirus (COVID-19) infections skyrocketed to 28,379 as of Friday, after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 934 new cases. According to DOH’s COVID-19 bulletin, 148 more recoveries also brought the total count to 399,457, while 63 new recorded deaths bring …

[ad_1] The government is targeting a modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), the least restrictive level of lockdown, in all local government units (LGU) by the second quarter of 2021. The undersecretary of the Department of Health, María Rosario Vergeire, said that this is the objective the government aims at. “And …

[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 4) – The country, for the first time in a month, recorded fewer than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases, with 934 more infections on Friday, the Health Department said. The last time the country recorded fewer than 1,000 cases was on November 4, but the …