The Philippine Star - August 07, 2020

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August 07, 2020

More frontliners test positive for COVID

More police and health frontliners are testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, authorities said yesterday.

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Negligence eyed in Beirut blast

BEIRUT (AP) – Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials.

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Fauci expects millions of vaccine doses at start of 2021

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Drugmakers will likely have tens of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines in the early part of next year, with production ramping up to a billion doses by the end of 2021, Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases official, said in a Reuters interview on Wednesday.

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Brazil adrift as virus toll approaches 100,000

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Five months after confirming its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil is fast approaching the bleak milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a tragedy experts blame on the country’s lack of coherent response.

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The Philippine STAR is the flagship title of the country's largest and most successful print media enterprise, the Philstar Media Group. Owned and published by Philstar Daily Inc., The Philippine STAR is a vaunted pillar of Philippine journalism whose integrity is anchored on the Biblical motto, “Truth Shall Prevail”. The Philippine STAR is a two-time winner of the prestigious Newspaper of the Year award given by the Rotary Club of Manila.