Peru's Health Ministry on Thursday reported the country's first fatal case of "flurona," a simultaneous infection of flu and COVID-19, involving an 87-year-old patient with comorbidities who was not vaccinated against the coronavirus.
India's COVID-19 tally rose to 35,226,386 on Friday, as 117,100 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.
Argentina saw a record number of daily cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, registering 109,608 infections in 24 hours, for a total caseload of 6,025,303, the Health Ministry said.
The Philippines on Friday (Jan. 7) recorded 21,819 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases to 2,910,664 and active case count to 77,369.
A total of 973 new recoveries and 129...
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday (Jan. 6) said he wants to raise the P5,000 Special Risk Allowance (SRA) of volunteer healthcare workers to augment the country’s medical workforce amid soaring COVID-19 infections.
A total of 14 more cities and provinces will be placed under more stringent Alert Level 3 status from Jan. 9 to 15 as the country hit a three-month high of 17,220 new COVID-19 cases, Malacañang announced on Thursday (Jan. 6).
