Tag: pandemic

Authorities are imposing a two-phase lockdown of the city of about 25 million people to carry out mass testing

In many ways, our society has adjusted to the so-called “new normal.” The question is, “How did the new normal make our lives better?"

Scenes of closed neighborhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China

While the caseload is low in global terms, it is deeply alarming in China where authorities have been squashing clusters since early 2020

“I think one of the encouraging things in the Philippines is that as COVID is disappearing, numbers of Masses are returning with strength”

All activities, especially those that entail the gathering of people, will be conducted in close coordination with the local government units

In less than three months, the fifth wave's 600,000 infections have thoroughly eclipsed the 12,000 recorded in the pandemic's first two years

Hong Kong is now the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak fuelled by the extremely contagious Omicron variant

“Amid the pandemic, women continue to fight and protect their ancestral lands from land grabbing of corporations backed by state agents"

SWS noted that net personal optimism score in the survey was was +42, classified by the polling firm as "excellent"