White House says Trump doing ‘well’ but source says next 48 hours ‘critical’
BETHESDA, MD – OCTOBER 03: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump rally outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 3, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump arrived at the hospital yesterday after testing positive for COVID-19. Alex Edelman/Getty Images/AFP WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump is doing “very well” in his hospital treatment for Covid-19, […]
Malaysia will not re-impose coronavirus curbs for now despite spike
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks are reflected in a glass as they walk outside a shop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia will not re-impose widespread coronavirus restrictions on travel despite a recent spike in infections, which a government minister said was […]
Singapore reports single digit COVID-19 cases for first time since March
Pedestrians cross the street at a junction along the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore on September 25, 2020. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) SINGAPORE— Singapore reported on Saturday new coronavirus cases in the single digits for the first time since March. The city-state, which has seen cases fall sharply in recent months as […]
Ex-White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tests positive for COVID-19
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 12, 2019 US President Donald Trump sits alongside Kellyanne Conway (L), Counselor to the President, during a meeting on the opioid epidemic in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) Kellyanne Conway, a former counselor to U.S. President […]
Baby of female Indian COVID-19 patient tests positive for coronavirus
OLONGAPO CITY—A newborn baby girl here has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Thursday (Oct. 1), authorities said. Her mother, a 30-year-old Indian national, was among the new patients reported in the city last week, Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. said. ADVERTISEMENT Both were admitted to a private hospital where they were being […]
AstraZeneca Japanese COVID-19 vaccine trial back up, U.S. still paused
FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled with the Vaccine is seen in front of AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Clinical trials of AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine have resumed in Japan, almost a month after being put on hold due to an illness of a British volunteer, […]
Trump, wife test positive for COVID-19
US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 1, 2020, following campaign events in New Jersey. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said early Friday he and First Lady Melania had tested positive for the […]
Tagbilaran hospital chief says facility safe after worker infected with coronavirus
Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Leo Udtohan/Inquirer Visayas TAGBILARAN CITY—A hospital worker here has tested positive for SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a hospital advisory. The infected worker was employed at the Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH). ADVERTISEMENT In the advisory, Dr. Mutya Kismet Tirol-Macuno, GCGMH […]
Cebu’s 3-day mass coronavirus testing starts with 300 vendors in city’s biggest market
CEBU CITY—Nearly 300 vendors in the city’s biggest market had been tested for SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on Wednesday (Sept. 30), the start of a three-day mass testing program of the city government. Mayor Edgardo Labella said vendors who would test positive for the virus would be required to go on quarantine […]
More than 60 million Indians may have caught coronavirus—study
Relatives in personal protective equipment perform rituals during the cremation of a person who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. India’s confirmed coronavirus tally has reached 6 million cases, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) More than […]