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[carousel_alt] => In a statement yesterday, he said he wrote Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III outlining his proposal to require vaccination for workers interacting directly with customers such as those involved in hospitality, tourism, restaurants, retail and personal care services, as well as those in labor-intensive work like construction, automotive, wearables and manufacturing, electronics and semiconductors and business process outsourcing.
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The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup.
"We should all be prepared, as the people in this part of Myanmar are prepared, for even more mass atrocity crimes. I desperately hope that I am wrong," said UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews.
More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in the country's bloody crackdown on dissent and more than 8,000 arrested since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.
Andrews, who was presenting the findings of an annual human rights report on Myanmar to the General Assembly, said that he had received information that tens of thousands of troops and heavy weapons were being moved into restive regions in the north and northwest. — AFP
Former senator Bongbong Marcos, a presidential aspirant, flew to Cebu to pay a courtesy visit to Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia at the capitol, The Freeman reports.
Marcos was accompanied by Rep. Duke Frasco (Cebu 5th district).
It’s time to share the spook as Krispy Kreme introduces its famous Halloween doughnuts this year, featuring its iconic Halloween Sprinkles, Jack the Pumpkin and Frankie made even spookier with the newest characters, Halloween Bride, Mr. Skelly and Skelly's Suit.
Say hello to your new favorite mix of spice to keep you company for the season. Think fall, jack-o'-lantern, and holidays. Krispy Kreme's new Pumpkin Spice Series now comes in doughnuts and coffee, ideal for whichever would fit your mood.
The Halloween doughnuts will be available until November 2 while the Pumpkin Spice Series will be until November 7, valid for dine-in, take out, curbside pickup, drive thru and delivery.
Health authorities record 5,823 new COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, bringing the total to 2,745,889.
Recoveries: 4,748 new; 2,637,531 total
Deaths: 283 new; 41,250 total
Active cases: 66,838 or 2.4% of total
Ngayong 4 PM, Oktubre 22, 2021, ang Department of Health ay nakapagtala ng 5,823 na karagdagang kaso ng COVID-19. Samantala ay mayroon namang naitalang 4,748 na gumaling at 283 na pumanaw.
Sa kabuuang bilang ng mga naitalang kaso sa bansa, 2.4% (66,838) ang aktibong kaso, pic.twitter.com/R301acZYzE
Gunmen killed at least seven people and left others wounded in an assault Friday on an Islamic seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, police said.
Four people were killed instantly in Friday's attack and three others died at a hospital in the Balukhali camp. Police did not say how many people were wounded.
"We arrested one attacker immediately after the incident," Shihab Kaisar Khan, regional chief for an armed police battalion, told reporters. — AFP
President Joe Biden says the United States would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by China, which considers it part of its territory.
"Yes," he responds when asked in a CNN town hall about defending Taiwan. "We have a commitment to that."
Biden's statement was at odds with the long-held US policy known as "strategic ambiguity," where Washington helps build Taiwan's defenses but does not explicitly promise to come to the island's help. — AFP
The new COVID-19 Delta subvariant has not yet been detected in the Philippines, the Department of Health says.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire says health authorities are monitoring 46 sublineages of the Delta variant, but “the particular Delta sublineage has not yet been detected among the COVID-19 positive samples sequenced in the country.”
Experts, however, are looking into the potential impact of the Delta AY.4.2. sublineage on transmissibility.
In a bid to stop the spread here of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, we have seen how hard lockdown and quarantine measures churned out both desirable and undesirable results more than a year and a half since then.
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