Keep Up Precautions As Restrictions Are Lifted

A second wave of COVID-19 cases is beginning to rise in Europe and the Americas, with the United States, the world’s No. 1 economy, suffering the most in the number of cases and deaths, with India on course to overtake the US.

Natural disasters of various kinds continue around the world in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a major 7.5-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska last Monday, sending off tsunami waves, only three months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the same region.

Across the ocean, the Philippines was hit by its 16th storm this year, causing landslides, heavy rains, and flooding in Northern Luzon, particularly in Aurora, Isabela, Benguet, and Ifugao provinces. The Philippines, being in the same Pacific Ring of Fire as Alaska, is also frequently hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.