Moscow’s Covid-19 cases surged by 51,853 this week, having reached a record high since the start of the pandemic, according to TASS estimates based on the anti-coronavirus crisis center’s data. Last week, some 36,710 people were infected in the Russian capital. Russia recorded a total of 108,139 Covid-19 weekly cases versus 82,250 in the previous seven days (a 31.5 percent increase). It was a new high since the first week of February 2021. The number of recoveries surged by 68,637, the largest increase since March 2021. However, the share of recoveries dropped from 92.2 percent to 91.6 percent over the

This city has registered a recovery rate from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) of 89 percent as of Friday as 50 additional recoveries were recorded. Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar on Saturday said Zamboanga City registered total recoveries of 9,959 out of the 11,222 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Of the 9,959 recoveries, 8,943 are community related and the rest include locally stranded individuals, persons deprived of liberty, authorized persons outside residence, Bureau of Corrections and, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology personnel, returning overseas Filipinos, and four returning residents from Malaysia. Salazar said the active cases of Covid-19 in this city went

Brazil reached a grim milestone of half a million Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the heath minister announced. Marcelo Queiroga said on Twitter that he “works tirelessly to vaccinate all Brazilians in the shortest time possible”. He also expressed solidarity with the families. Another government official, Communications Minister Fabio Faria, lashed out at the press, criticizing the fact that “politicians, artists and journalists” lament the number. “You will never see them celebrate the 86 million [vaccine] doses given or the 18 million [Brazilians] cured,” he wrote. According to him, these people “root for the virus.” While the Senate is investigating the

Acting city health officer Dr. Lorraine Nery has relinquished her position as well as for being the vice-chairperson of the city’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Emergency Operation Center, mayor Oscar Moreno announced on Saturday. Moreno appointed Dr. William Bernardo, city health insurance office head, to concurrently lead the city health office in an acting capacity to avert any void in the leadership of the department. “I’ve known him (Bernardo) for so long when I was still a governor in 2004, and he was a consistent awardee as a hospital administrator. So some adjustments and I am hopeful that we can

The United Kingdom has recorded more than 10,000 daily cases for the third day in a row, with a top scientist warning that the country is in the grips of a third wave. The country confirmed 10,321 new cases on Saturday, bringing the overall caseload to over 4.6 million. A further 14 deaths pushed the total to 127,970. Over 42.6 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine, while over 31 million are fully vaccinated. Despite the blistering speed of the vaccination program, the rapid increase in cases has been caused

Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar assured the indigenous peoples (IPs) that they would not be cast out amid the national government’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) immunization drive. During the Cabinet Report on “The New Normal” on Friday, Andanar said President Rodrigo Duterte has a clear policy that no one will be left behind, as the government intends to vaccinate Filipinos against Covid-19. “Tama si Presidente, dapat walang maiiwan, dapat walang iwanan. Kasama na diyan ang ating kapwa Pilipinong palabas ng bansa upang maghanapbuhay, ang ating mga kapwa Pilipinong nasa indigenous cultural communities at ang ating mga kapwa