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Philippines back to old travel status quo – Nograles Christina Mendez © Michael Varcas, file Philippines back to old travel status quo – Nograles MANILA, Philippines — The travel restriction covering 36 countries with recorded cases of new variants of COVID-19 will be lifted effective tomorrow, Malacañang said yesterday. “On Feb. 1, we will go back to our old status quo before we even implemented the travel restrictions,” Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said over dzMM radio. The countries covered by existing travel restrictions are Austria, Denmark, Ire...

COVID cases surge will be evident in first 2 weeks of January –OCTA prof Dona Magsino,GMA News Warnings from the mayor, social distancing signs and measures, and even the presence of law enforcers are useless against the throng of tightly packed shoppers on Ylaya Street in Divisoria on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. DANNY PATA The rise in COVID-19 cases in the Philippines due to increased interactions during the holiday season would be noticeable in the first two weeks of January, OCTA Research fellow Ranjit Rye said Thursday. "Hindi na if 'yan [pagtaas] eh, but a question of whe...

Published December 23, 2020 9:14pm As the Philippines marks the start of the holiday surge in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), experts from the OCTA Research group identified the Metro Manila cities with the highest daily attack rates in the last two weeks. According to Joseph Morong’s “24 Oras” report on Wednesday, Dr. Ranjit Rye said a higher daily attack rate indicates an ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. “They show if an outbreak is happening in a particular place,” he said. “It means that the outbreak is alive and kicking as far as that place is concerned. And t...

Published December 15, 2020, 11:18 PM We are now in the last two weeks of December, 2020. After a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO)   said  three regions of the world continue to have rising  infections and deaths – Europe with a nearly 100 percent increase in deaths per week; the Americas, particularly  the United States, 54 percent; and Africa, 50 percent. But  with the start of mass vaccinations in Britain and soon in the US,  there is hope that  the global situation will soon start  improving. The production of vaccines against a disease that wa...

‘Christmas celebrations could turn to tears’ © Interaksyon/Bernard Testa ‘Christmas celebrations could turn to tears’ MANILA, Philippines — The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday that Christmas celebrations could turn to tears if people fail to keep up their guard against COVID-19 during the festive season. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of deaths in the coronavirus pandemic was surging and urged people to think very carefully about their holiday season plans. “The festive season is a time to relax and celebrate but... celebration can very qui...