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WB: Making local vaxx benefits PHL, but not now

DESPITE having a young population and a current dependence on imported vaccines, the Philippines would gain from having its own vaccine manufacturing industry. However, it will take more time and investments to make this happen, according to the World Bank.

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The Corals of Currimao

Sigrid Salucop & Cristina Manalad
May 14, 2023

Nature risk is rising, but an underwater museum might just be our saving grace

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DOH: Local transmission of XBB.1.16 ‘highly likely’

The Department of Health (DOH) said that local transmission of the Covid-19 Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 is “highly likely” after three more cases were detected in the country with “no linkages to international cases or no known history of exposure.”

Covid-19 Updates

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‘WHO’s Covid lifting boon to economy’

SPEAKER Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Sunday said the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to lift its Covid-19 global health emergency declaration will pave the way for more Philippines economic activities.

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WHO downgrades Covid-19 pandemic, says it’s no longer a global emergency

Maria Cheng & Jamey Keaten / The Associated Press
May 7, 2023

GENEVA—The World Health Organization said Friday that Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide.

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DOH to convene IATF following WHO’s Covid downgrade

The Department of Health (DOH) will convene the members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to discuss and reassess policies after the World Health Organization (WHO) lifted the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on Covid-19.

People wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus walk along a street in downtown Barcelona, Spain, July 3, 2021.

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EXPLAINER: What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic?

Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an “endemic” disease, but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over. A look at what endemic means and the implications for the future.

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WHO members eye pandemic preparation, as new variant emerges

In the wake of diplomatic wrangling, a draft resolution at the special World Health Assembly stops short of calling for work toward specifically establishing a “pandemic treaty" or “legally binding instrument” sought by some, which could beef up the international response when — not if — a new pandemic erupts.

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The Latest: WHO sees virus cases leveling off

In its weekly assessment of the pandemic, the UN health agency said COVID-19 increased by about 20% and 8% in the Western Pacific and in the Americas, while rates of disease either remained the same or dropped in other regions.

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Highlight On ‘WeThe15’

The opening next week of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo is being used as a stage to launch a human-rights movement aimed at the world’s 1.2 billion people with disabilities.

Covax J&J vaccines arrival in the Philippines

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Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots

Under COVAX, countries were supposed to give money so vaccines could be set aside, both as donations to poor countries and as an insurance policy for richer ones to buy doses if theirs fell through. But others, including Britain, tapped into the meager supply of COVAX doses themselves, despite being among the countries that had reserved most of the world's available vaccines. In the meantime, billions of people in poor countries have yet to receive a single dose.

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Summer setback: COVID deaths and cases rising again globally

The reversal has been attributed to low vaccination rates, the relaxation of mask rules and other precautions, and the swift spread of the more-contagious delta variant, which WHO said has now been identified in 111 countries and is expected to become globally dominant in the coming months.

medical staff wearing protective equipment attend to patients affected by COVID-19

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Driven by delta variant, Covid-19 surges across Africa

Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and deaths are increasing.

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WHO decision challenges West to recognize Chinese vaccines

In its aim to restore travel across Europe, the European Union said in May that it would only recognize people as vaccinated if they had received shots licensed by the European Medicines Agency — although it’s up to individual countries if they wish to let in travelers who have received other vaccines, including Russia’s Sputnik V.

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WHO, Unicef declare end of polio outbreak in the Philippines

A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which praised government efforts to fight the disease despite the coronavirus pandemic.

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WHO grants emergency approval to 2nd Chinese COVID vaccine

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has issued an emergency use listing for the COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac for adults 18 and over, the second such authorization it has granted to a Chinese company.

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COVID-19 variants to be labeled as Greek letters

Hoping to strike a fair and more comprehensible balance, WHO said it will now refer to the most worrisome variants — known as “variants of concern” — by letters in the Greek alphabet.

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WHO report says animals likely source of COVID

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.

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