An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 shook Davao del Sur province in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) reported. The institute said the quake, which struck at 12:22 pm local time, hit at a depth of 15 kilometers, about 6 kilometers southeast of Magsaysay town. […]
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Philippines to relax ban on visitors from countries with UK Covid-19 variant
The Philippines will relax travel curbs on foreigners coming from more than 30 countries that have detected cases of the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus starting from next month, the presidential spokesman said today. The move covers foreigners previously allowed to enter the Philippines, including those holding work […]
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Philippines approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use
The Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration has authorised for emergency use the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the first to be approved in the country, which has among the most coronavirus cases in Asia. FDA head Rolando Enrique Domingo said the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has shown a 95 […]