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COVID sets back country’s 2040 high-income goal

The Philippines nears the upper-middle-income level but is “not likely” to achieve high-income status by 2040 if its current economic growth rate persists, Department...

WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

Geneva, Switzerland—The World Health Organization's member states on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, after more than three years of...

Path cleared for WHO assembly to adopt pandemic agreement

Geneva, Switzerland—WHO's annual assembly is expected to adopt a landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics on Tuesday, after a top committee in the UN agency...

Covid-19 cases in the Philippines lower versus 2024—DOH

Covid-19 cases in the Philippines remain low, but the Department of Health (DOH) continues to monitor regional increases closely, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said...

DOH eyeing rise in covid cases in Singapore, HK

The Department of Health (DOH) has reported that it is closely observing a rise in COVID-19 cases across certain parts of Southeast Asia. While the...

PIDS study urges reforms to elevate PH higher education

College dropout rates in the Philippines nearly doubled, from 20% in 2019 to 41% in 2020, suggesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...

WHO nations strike landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics

Geneva, Switzerland—Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding...

Pandemic treaty talks inch towards accord

Geneva, Switzerland—Countries hope more than three years of negotiations on battling future pandemics will finally end Tuesday, after reaching a preliminary agreement last week. It has...

WHO pandemic agreement talks face deadline crunch

“Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and his large-scale dismantling of US health institutes is a new threat...

Fixing the country’s transportation woes is his new job

The worsening traffic on EDSA, much-delayed rail projects… are just a few of the challenges. His recent accomplishments define his resume. Will his new job...

CIA says Covid ‘more likely’ to have leaked from lab

The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from...

Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

Paris, France—Five years since Covid-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe -- though at far lower...

China says COVID information shared ‘without holding anything back’

BEIJING—Beijing insisted on Tuesday it had shared information on COVID-19 “without holding anything back,” after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more...

London wall illuminates pandemic’s enduring pain at Christmas

London, United Kingdom—UK families of some 240,000 people who died from Covid-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger...
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