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[ad_1] President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a seven-day ban on all flights from the United Kingdom following the discovery of a new and more powerful variant of the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in that country. Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said Duterte approved the suspension Tuesday. It will last from December …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore has confirmed its first case of the new variant of the coronavirus found in the United Kingdom, the city-state said, while 11 others already in quarantine had yielded preliminary positive results for the new strain. All the cases, which were imported from Europe, had been quarantined …

[ad_1] Large areas of England will join London, the South East and the East of England at Level 4, amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and the alarm over a rapidly spreading new strain of coronavirus. The new areas include Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, the parts of Essex …

[ad_1] Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent (CNN) – Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona, has seen more than 100,000 different strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. But when you saw the new UK variant, you noticed something different. “This is the first variant I’ve seen …

[ad_1] (CNN) The nearly year-long coronavirus pandemic has been filled with grim numbers, but Wednesday brought an encouraging one: More than 1 million people have received their first injection of the COVID-19 vaccine. And that reported number is low, because many of the doses administered in recent days have not …

[ad_1] The highest number of Covid deaths since April and the discovery of a second new variant of the virus have led to stark warnings that ministers are acting too slowly by waiting until Boxing Day to put 6 million more people in the stricter restrictions. A portion of England …

[ad_1] A “very worrying” new variant of the coronavirus has been detected in the UK and is suspected of causing an increase in cases in South Africa, said Matt Hancock. Public Health England surveillance on Tuesday identified two people who contracted the virus after being in contact with different travelers …

[ad_1] Fans are seen during the fourth quarter of a game between the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs at the Toyota Center on December 17, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Carmen Mandato / Getty Images / AFP Covid-19 precautions forced the first postponement of the NBA season into just …

[ad_1] HOUSTON – James Harden’s Houston soap opera now comes with a canceled season opener. Houston’s first game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night (Thursday Manila time) was ruled out after coronavirus cases and Harden’s violation of the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols left the Rockets without the eight mandatory …

[ad_1] SEN. Pia Cayetano, warning against the high risk of accidents, called for the exemption of runners and cyclists from the Inter-institutional Working Group (IATF) on the management of emerging infectious diseases, the imposition of mandatory face shields to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19 . . “I join …