MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Philippines has requested to get between 3 million and 5 million doses of the 80 million surplus doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the United States, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr said on Wednesday (June 2).
Chris Hemsworth announced that
Thor: Love And Thunder has finally wrapped filming while showing off his massive physique as the God of Thunder.
“That’s a wrap on
Thor Love And Thunder, it’s also national don’t flex day so I thought this super relaxed photo was appropriate,” the actor joked on Instagram on June 2.
The post came with a black-and-white photo showing Hemsworth in top shape as the Norse god, a far departure from his “Fat Thor” look in
Avengers: Endgame, the last film he was in.
Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi also joined Hemsworth in the photo, which shows him in costume as Korg. Waititi first played the character in
A man registers for a vaccine against Covid-19 in a cinema turned into a vaccination site in San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines, June 2, 2021. - Reuters
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The country now has 53,132 active Covid-19 cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday (June 2), while 5,257 more people in the country were infected with the new coronavirus.
The current active infections represent 4.2 percent of all the 1,240,716 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country.
Of the confirmed cases, 94.1 per cent or 1,167,426 have recovered, including the latest 6,266 patients who survived the disease.
There were also 146 new deaths, according to DOH’s Wednesday update, raising the tally of fatalities due to Covid-19 complications to 21,158, which is 1.71 per cent of the total cases.
The writer, Richard Heydarian, says Filipinos seem more eager for paternalistic leaders than to become full participants in democratic politics themselves.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has filed around 100 diplomatic protests against China's various incursions in the West Philippine Sea despite the President's vaunted "pivot to China" foreign policy.