Pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many parts of…

LONDON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a stronger immune response months after people receive a first dose. J&J said in statement that an extra dose — given either two months or six months after the initial shot — revved…

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is…

SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye As I was about to write this piece, I was shocked and saddened to hear from our perpetual Ateneo alumni group president Jojo Buñag that one of our own – Delfin ‘Ding’ Wenceslao, Jr. – just passed on moments earlier. Heart failure, we were told.…

published : 19 Sep 2021 at 18:37 Police search a backpack belonging to Pisal Sukjaitham after he was arrested in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai on Sunday. An official in charge of finance at the Social Development and Human Security Ministry was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing 13…

MADRID (Reuters) - About 25,000 people took part in the biggest illegal drinking party in Madrid since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, police said on Saturday. The "macro-botellon," as these outside drinking parties are called, started at the Complutense University in Madrid on Friday. Madrid's Municipal Police said because…

Peacemakers and dialogue among nations PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. de Venecia Jr. The United Nations general assembly commenced its 76th session last Sept. 14, amid the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected some 226 million people and claimed more than 4.6 million human lives worldwide,…

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch and his father, chairman Rupert Murdoch, each saw their compensation packages fall in 2021 due to pandemic-spurred pay cuts. Rupert still took home a compensation package valued at $31.1 million, with Lachlan Murdoch seeing a package valued at $27.7 million. Those are down from $34…

These are the worst days of the pandemic for some parts of the United States. The ongoing delta variant wave set a series of Covid-19 records this week — a somber reminder that while football stadiums are filled again and many schools are open, the coronavirus continues to take a…

Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan (File photo) MANILA – The Department of Tourism (DOT) has launched the More Fun Awaits campaign to strengthen the Philippines’ positioning as a top-of-mind tourist destination in the global market once international leisure travel to the country resumes. More Fun Awaits showcases the preparations that…