MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday reiterated its earlier reminder for all aspirants in the May 2022 polls to refrain from holding mass gatherings of supporters which may result in superspreader events for coronavirus.
MANILA – Unvaccinated police officers will only be reassigned to perform other tasks to reduce their risk of getting infected with coronavirus, the country’s top cop said on Monday.
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are bound for countries included in the Philippines’ “red list” due to the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Omicron variant will not be able to travel to their host nations for now, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Thursday.
China’s president pledged to offer Africa one billion Covid vaccine doses on Monday, with the continent struggling to acquire enough jabs to immunise against the disease.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday asked the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to decide whether to reimpose the mandatory use of face shields amid the threat of the Omicron coronavirus (Covid-19) variant.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s husband on Tuesday accused unvaccinated Germans of “laziness”, as the country grapples with a dramatic rise in coronavirus infections that has fuelled debate about making jabs mandatory.
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will devise a plan to be able to monitor campaign activities that violate health protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Germany needs further coronavirus restrictions to combat a record surge in infections and “get through this winter”, the country’s likely next leader Olaf Scholz said Thursday, calling a national meeting to decide new curbs.
Some call it “experimental”, some don’t trust the government, some even buy fake certificates — as their country sees a record coronavirus surge, Russians are proving stubbornly resistant to the country’s Sputnik V vaccine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pleaded with his compatriots to “turn on your brain” and get vaccinated as the country struggles to contain a surge in coronavirus infections.
