Pandemic

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. (UPDATE) THE Department of Health (DoH) agreed with the observation of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is "in sight," but added that the country must be prepared to transition to the endemic stage. WHO Director-General…

Former Telstra boss David Thodey will lead a review of MyGov, the federal services online platform that crashed in the early days of the pandemic, sending thousands into Centrelink queues. MyGov, which receives about 1 million sign-ins daily, connects Australians to agency sites that issue everything from online tax returns…

It’s official: businesses’ poorly targeted and overly frequent communications are turning off customers. According to recent Podium research, Australians’ tolerance for uncomfortable communication is declining in the aftermath of the pandemic. The Business-to-Customer Communications Report reveals that convenience trumps cost, with over half of Aussies willing to pay more for convenient communication…

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved an updated Covid vaccine that specifically targets the dominant BA.5 subvariant. A few days later, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviewed and recommended these vaccines as boosters (from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 years and older, and from Moderna for…

Football might have been at a standstill 2 years ago during the global pandemic, but that didn’t get in the way of an unknown 17-year-old taking the Belgian League by storm, who was linked with powerhouses across Europe. The country from which the latest wonderkid hails from this time is…

•Union Bank chair urges establishment of smart rural banks The global economic headwinds occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia could have destabilised the Nigerian financial sector but for the ingenuity of the sector’s regulators, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at…

Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 1 locally transmitted COVID-19 case and 0 local asymptomatic cases this morning, Wednesday, September 14. The case, who lives in Minhang, is a student from another province who had come to Shanghai to study, and tested positive during central quarantine. Typhoon Muifa means…

There are some conspiracy theories that defy traditional ideological classification, and the anti-fluoride theories are among the oldest that still have currency. Though it is well-established that fluoridated water supplies improve dental hygiene, and that communities with fluoridated water are healthier in this regard, fluoride-phobia still runs rampant.  Disgraced right-wing…

Data: Axios/Ipsos poll; Chart:Simran Parwani/Axios Two and a half years into the pandemic, Americans say they’re doing well in most aspects of their lives — except possibly their personal finances, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. Why it matters: Many of us appear ready to roll…

Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 0 locally transmitted COVID-19 case and 3 local asymptomatic cases this morning, Monday, September 12. All three cases tested positive during central quarantine. They were all close contacts of an asymptomatic case reported on Wednesday, September 7, an 11-year-old girl from outside the city who…