Philippines eyes foreign investors to rev up recovery from pandemic
The Philippines has put "pro-business" measures to lure foreign investors into the Southeast Asian country recovering from the two-year Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Philippines has put "pro-business" measures to lure foreign investors into the Southeast Asian country recovering from the two-year Covid-19 pandemic.
Starting to send the same vaccine but please don't dump it all on the set once. we don't have enough refrigerators and deep freezers. we don't have enough syringes, we don't have enough skilled personnel to immediately overnight. rev up and distribute 16 million doses. please pace how quickly you launch this in our direction, because we need to have our infrastructure in place. i mean, this would be as if the day the first moderna vaccine was available. we dealt 1 million doses on mississippi and said, go for it folks. you don't have that capacity. on top of it all, there are shortages of ever...
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Other countries affected by the amazon fires. according to tnational institut for space research, 87 fires, the highest since 2013. here we are at the start of the workweek with milder, cooler temperatures at this hour. here's meteorologist janessa webb. >> breathable air and totally unexpected. >> exactly, and it's going to be short lived. we'll talk about the forecast coming up. the activity in the atlantic is starting to rev up, near the peak of the hurricane season, and we have a tropical storm. you can see from our enhanced radar here. it's starting to come together. nothing too organiz...
Right now we're seeing sustained winds of about 40 miles an hour. there's the west movement of 14 miles an hour. i want to show you from the track here that has just been updated at the 12:00 hour here. we are going to see the sustained winds pick up to 65 miles an hour and really the bulls eye zone here is puerto rico into espanola here in the next 24 to 36 hours. by thursday a potential hurricane. we're not forecasting here. it really started to shed apart and goes back into the gulf. there's a ton of uncertainty with this storm system. our model data shows you here they are pretty much all ...