Members of a WHO-led team have been looking for clues about the origins of COVID-19 for nearly a month of meetings and site visits in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease was first identified. The briefing was originally scheduled for 3.30 pm local time (0730 GMT) on Tuesday afternoon but was then delayed until 5.00 pm (0900 GMT).
The first batch of coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech will be distributed to several hospitals across Metro Manila as well as certain healthcare facilities in Cebu and Davao, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Tuesday.
The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold chain transmission of the virus is a possibility and warrants further investigation.
The head of a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of COVID-19 said bats remain a likely source and that transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility that warrants further investigation, but he ruled out a lab leak.
MANILA, Feb 9 (Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Tuesday 1,235 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 540,227.