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NEW DELIVERY. National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., faces the media at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 on Sunday afternoon (Nov. 29, 2021). He joined other officials in welcoming the shipment of 547,100 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by Poland. (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The country's fight against the dreaded coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and the threat of the newly discovered Omicron variant received a boost with the arrival of 547,100 more doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by Poland. The life-sav...

(File photo) MANILA - The government has already closed a deal for the procurement of additional 20 million doses of the United States-made Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines. The vaccines will be used for pediatric vaccination and booster shots of priority sectors, according to National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., during a virtual presser on Sunday. "So yung ating 40 million [doses] po na una nating napirmahan ay nadagdagan po ito ng 20 million. Naging 60 million na (Our initial contract for 40 million doses has been increased to 6...

(Photo from Xinhua) OTTAWA-The Canadian government has lifted its advisory against all non-essential international travel by Canadians outside the country which were in place since the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in March 2020. The new advisories for each country have now reverted to the four levels that existed prior to the pandemic: exercise normal security precautions, exercise a high degree of caution, avoid non-essential travel and avoid all travel. The advisories put back in place on Thursday can be seen on the government's Travel Advice and Advisory website...

>> well, the numbers have started climbing and i'm going to continue to do what i can do to help these families get their kids to school. a lot of them doesn't have parents to take them so they use uber and lyft or don't send their kids to school. if it gets to the point where, you know, the limo is not enough, then i will definitely -- we have a charter bus and i would put a charter bus out and go from there. >> bill: he just keeps going. >> dana: in columbus, ohio school bus drivers in 2019 there were 765. today there are only 557. this is being -- happening across the country as well. colum...

Joining us now is correspondent elson barber, live at the state's only children's hospital in jackson, mississippi. what can you tell us about children who have gotten severely ill from covid? >> when we're talking about children here. when you're looking at numbers in general in this state on the surface they might not seem high. there were 557 new confirmed cases of covid-19 in mississippi yesterday. but it is the rate that theorizing that is really concerning when you look further at the numbers, hospitalizations in this state because of covid-19 have steadily increased since the beginning ...