Carlos Yulo relinquished his FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championship floor exercise title on Saturday after placing fifth in Kitakyushu, Japan. The 21-year-old champion in Stuttgart in 2019 missed out on a podium finish after a crucial error in his landing. He stepped out of bounds while trying to keep his balance after a routine. Yulo topped the qualifying phase on Wednesday and was off to a great start in his redemption tour after a failed Tokyo Olympics bid in August. His performance was good for 14.866 points, but the 0.3-point penalty for the out-of-bound infraction pulled him down to 14.566.
The national government will be ramping up vaccination strategies by involving the private sector in achieving population protection as soon as possible. The “vax to the max” strategy will be the main focus of the government along with the private sector, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 chief Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said in a news release on Saturday. Galvez cited the private sector’s “enormous” contributions to the country’s fight against Covid-19 as they are also donating vaccines to the local government units. “It (donations) added an additional volume for our vaccination program. The private sector is also trying to
BioNTech co-founders Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci said Friday they expect there would be enough supply of Covid-19 vaccines by mid to late 2022 to immunize the global population. Speaking at a press conference here where they will later accept the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the husband and wife said all vaccines would help achieve the goal. At BioNTech, their company that worked alongside Pfizer to develop the first approved Covid-19 vaccine, they said they are currently sending 40 percent of vaccines to developing countries and are working to add production to underserved regions.
The Philippine Navy, through Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), will conduct the five-day Exercise “Pagsisikap 2021” in littoral areas and seawaters off Basilan and Sulu provinces. Lt. Chester Ross Cabaltera, NFWM information officer, said Saturday the exercise, from October 25 to 30, aims to test the readiness of the naval forces in this part of the country. “The naval exercise aims to test wartime and peacetime doctrines in the conduct of amphibious operations, maritime interdiction operations, surveillance and reconnaissance of the maritime areas, civil-military operations, and a host of other traditional and non-traditional naval operations,” Cabaltera said. He said as
