Category: COVID-19 NEWS
Nearly half of health workers yet to get second COVID booster – DOH
MANILA — Nearly half of the country’s 1.2 million healthcare workers have yet to receive their second booster of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Department of Health. As of Dec. 12, some 603,905...
After three years, COVID ‘here to stay’
PARIS — While the World Health Organization hopes COVID-19 will soon no longer be considered a public health emergency, it has warned the virus itself is here to stay. Three years after the first...
Life with COVID-19, once taboo, goes viral in China
BEIJING — With photos of test strips, health tips and detailed symptom diaries, China’s social media is flooded with posts about catching and surviving COVID-19 as the country learns to live with the virus...
Australia will manage COVID-19 differently after Christmas. Here’s what’s changing
The way Australia deals with COVID-19 will change from 1 January. KEY POINTS Australians have been told to expect COVID-19 waves for at least two years Mental health scheme to be scaled back. Free...
‘We want freedom’: Key quotes from China’s protests
China was gripped last weekend by widespread protests not seen in decades, with hundreds taking to the streets across the country to demand an end to crippling Covid lockdowns. Originally triggered by the deaths...
China arrests BBC journalist covering COVID protests
LONDON –– The BBC said on Sunday one of its journalists in China had been arrested and beaten by police while covering protests against the country’s zero-COVID policy. Hundreds of people took to the...