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[ad_1] Manila, Philippines (Updated 3:29 pm) – More than six months after the country’s pandemic-induced community quarantine, the Philippines still reports thousands of cases a day. Despite this, the Duterte administration insists on a further reopening of the economy, with major tourist spots such as Baguio city and the island …

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2020, following campaign events in New Jersey. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said early Friday that he and …

[ad_1] (CNN) – Australia will establish a travel corridor with New Zealand to allow quarantine-free tourism, and flights are likely to start in a few weeks, but there is a catch. The quarantine-free travel will initially be one-way only, from New Zealand to Australia, and a limited number of destinations …

[ad_1] A bubble of travel through Tasmania between Australia and New Zealand will become a reality within two weeks after the two nations agreed that New Zealanders could travel to New South Wales and the Northern Territory starting October 16, for the first time since the coronavirus restrictions were imposed …

[ad_1] “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through it TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted shortly before 1 a.m. Friday. In a memo sent to reporters around 1 a.m. ET, the president’s physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, wrote …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Its president and CEO, Dante Gierran, has asked senior executives at Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to submit their courtesy resignations in a bid to reorganize the corruption-stricken state insurance agency, Malacañang said. on Friday. Atty. Gierran knows he doesn’t have much time. And that’s why …

[ad_1] FILE: This photo taken on June 17, 2020 shows a general shot of the famous white beach on the island of Boracay in the central Philippines. (Photo by Ernesto CRUZ / AFP) MANILA, Philippines – Only 35 tourists made it to the world-famous island of Boracay after it reopened …

[ad_1] The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) approved the public debut of Converge ICT Solutions Inc., which would become the country’s third-largest Internet provider by market value and propel founder Dennis Anthony H. Uy of Pampanga to the status of billionaire in dollars. Amid a global health crisis that has driven …

[ad_1] This case study redefines someone’s brain choice. A woman’s coronavirus test went terribly south after she inexplicably began leaking cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through her nose, according to a case report. “To our knowledge, this is the first report of an iatrogenic CSF leak after a nasal swab for COVID-19,” …

[ad_1] As countries scramble to secure potential vaccine doses, there are fears that the WHO-led COVAX project is a few steps behind. An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people faces a possible shortage of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines. It is also drawing …