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Published July 10, 2021, 1:23 PM Children listen to their online class. The Philippines has been implementing blended learning program as schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (MANNY LLANES/MANILA BULLETIN/ FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) reminded parents that they still need to supervise their children to observe health protocols when going outdoors. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire made the statement as the government allowed children aged five years and up ...

Close Gov. Jim Justice speaks at the annual West Virginia Day Celebration on June 20 at the state capitol building in Charleston. PHOTO BY GOVERNORS OFFICE COVID-19 By Charles Boothe | Bluefield Daily Telegraph Jun 30, 2021 18 hrs ago Gov. Jim Justice speaks at the annual West Virginia Day Celebration on June 20 at the state capitol building in Charleston. PHOTO BY GOVERNORS OFFICE CHARLESTON — The number of the COVID Delta va...

The U.S. should evacuate thousands of interpreters and others who aided the U.S. military and government to the Pacific territory of Guam while they await decisions on their immigration visas, advocates and lawmakers said.   

/ Jim Justice with his French bulldog, Baby Dog. Registration has opened to enter the state’s COVID-19 vaccine lottery. Anyone who has received at least one shot is eligible for millions of dollars worth of prizes. To be entered in the first drawing, scheduled for June 20, residents can register at doitforbabydog.wv.gov. Those who sign up are then entered into weekly drawings that will continue through August 4. The lottery is taking the namesake of Gov. Jim Justice’s English bulldog. “...

PFAS contamination presents numerous legal challenges. At the top of the list - who is going to pay the exorbitant clean-up costs?

Bipartisan lawmakers call on Biden to ‘immediately’ evacuate Afghans who helped the US A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to immediately evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted the United States, saying in a letter Friday that those “Afghan friends and allies are at greater risk than ever before” as the US military withdrawal from the country is underway. “After examining this situation through multiple hearings, briefings, and our own offic...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to immediately evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted the United States, saying in a letter Friday that those "Afghan friends and allies are at greater risk than ever before" as the US military withdrawal from the country is underway.

Senate President Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III “Calling on IATF/DOH (Interagency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases/Department of Health) to remove the 14-day quarantine on fully-vaccinated persons entering the Philippines as long as health standards are followed,” Sotto said in message to reporters. “Why do fully vaccinated people have to still do the two-week quarantine when traveling to the Philippines? it doesn’t make sense!” he added. According to the Sen...

So far, about 13,600 of those 12 to 15 in West Virginia have gotten at least one shot, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Roughly 50 communities — including Dudley, Millbury and Princeton — have elevated levels of the contaminant in town public water systems.