The Philippine delegation to the Tokyo Olympics suffered a minor setback after Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Bambol Tolentino revealed on Saturday that an official who is supposed to join the national team contracted the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). “He will not be able to go there anymore,” Tolentino said in a talk show interview. As for the athletes, they should monitor for symptoms and log their temperature daily for two weeks in a health-reporting app before going to Tokyo. They must also fill out an “activity plan” for their first 14 days in Japan describing where they will go,

Fifty-nine vaccination sites here will hasten the Covid-19 vaccination program that has administered 403,445 doses as of July 15. Of the total inoculation hubs, 21 are managed by the City Health Office (CHO), nine by hospitals, and 29 by different sectors. The total doses administered included 112,499 second doses. In a radio interview on Friday, Davao City Covid-19 Task Force spokesperson Dr. Michelle Schlosser said the vaccination sites are focused on the A4 priority group (economic front-liners). “Since other sites perform vaccination even during weekends, essential workers can now grab the opportunity to be inoculated without disrupting their weekday work,”

The number of people who died in floods in western Germany rose to 106 on Friday, officials confirmed in Rhineland-Palatinate. At least 63 people have died due to severe flooding, the Koblenz Police Department said in a statement, while in the neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia region, officials have confirmed 43 deaths. Germany’s worst floods in more than 200 years have swept away homes, caused widespread devastation in various towns and villages in the western regions. Local officials said nearly 1,300 people were still missing in the Ahrweiler district, but the exact figure was not clear, as the floods have cut electricity

Echoing the sentiments of President Rodrigo Duterte, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go remains firm on his stand that face-to-face classes in schools must be put on hold first until more Filipinos are vaccinated to reach population protection and eventually herd immunity amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “Ang importante sa amin ni Pangulo ay ang buhay ng bawat Pilipino (What’s important to me and the President is the life of each Filipino),” Go said in a media release Saturday. Go said, in an interview at the Tondo Medical Center on Friday, during the launch of the 129th Malasakit Center, the government should first