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[ad_1] Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, Deputy Director of EOC Implementation, is warning of a shutdown in the city if the trend of increasing COVID-19 cases continues. | CDN digital file photo CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center is warning the public that if the rising …

[ad_1] Former Alaska ace Ronald Pascual. FILE INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines – Once one of the NCAA’s brightest prospects, Ronald Pascual has hit rock bottom, according to his brother. Ronel Pascual, in a Facebook post on the MR.CabalenHoops page, described that his brother Ronald is in the “deepest and saddest stage …

[ad_1] Brazil’s national health regulator allowed clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine developed in China to resume on Wednesday, two days after suspending them in what critics called a decision tainted by politics. A nurse shows a Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech at the Sao Lucas …

[ad_1] ERADICATED? Traditional ink stamps known as “hanko” are used to sign everything from delivery receipts to marriage certificates in Japan. An urge to phase them out faces an uphill struggle. —AFP TOKYO – Japan’s new prime minister is declaring war, but there is no danger of international conflict: the …

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump attends a “National Day of Observance” wreath laying ceremony on November 11, 2020 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. – US President Donald Trump made his first official post-election appearance on Wednesday in what should be a moment of national unity to mark Veterans …

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, predicted that positive data from a second Covid-19 vaccine could come quickly after the robust results of this week’s trial from Pfizer and BioNTech. Dr. Fauci told the FT Live Global Pharmaceutical Summit on Wednesday that he was optimistic about an upcoming …

[ad_1] Photo by @emra_visuals / via via Instagram by Emmanuel Pacquiao Usually a parent would always want their child to follow in their footsteps – doctors, engineers, and lawyers. However, for Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, he hopes none of his sons, especially his sons, will follow his journey when …

[ad_1] By Belinda Goldsmith For Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan, the vision of nurses around the world risking their lives to fight COVID-19 with limited resources brought back memories of how she breastfed her invalid father as a teenager in Cuba. At the family home in Havana, Estefan spent five years …

[ad_1] The EU has reached an agreement to initially pay less for Pfizer’s candidate vaccine, an official source told Reuters News Agency. The European Union has reached an agreement to initially pay less for Pfizer’s COVID-19 candidate vaccine than the United States, an EU official told Reuters News Agency when …

[ad_1] The government is now looking to finalize the number of vaccines against the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that it will be able to buy this month, as the president discovered an additional $ 300 million funding source for the acquisition of vaccines. Philippine officials are currently in bilateral talks …