Philippines records 58 coronavirus deaths, 2,241 new cases

Funeral home workers in protective suits carry a body during the start of a lockdown due to a rise in COVID cases in the city of Navotas, Manila, Philippines on Thursday, July 16, 2020. Coronavirus infections continue to rise in the country after reopening the economy that is on the brink of a recession while still struggling to combat the pandemic. The cause of death is unconfirmed. (AP)
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Updated 19 July 2020
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Philippines records 58 coronavirus deaths, 2,241 new cases

  • The Philippines recorded 162 COVID-19 deaths a week ago

MANILA: The Philippines’ health department on Sunday reported 58 deaths related to COVID-19 and 2,241 additional infections of coronavirus.
Total deaths now stand at 1,831, with 67,456 confirmed cases, it said in a bulletin.
The Philippines recorded 162 COVID-19 deaths a week ago, the highest daily rise in Southeast Asia so far.


Russia says the West should stop claiming Moscow and Beijing threaten Greenland

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Russia says the West should stop claiming Moscow and Beijing threaten Greenland

  • “First they came up with the idea that there were some aggressors,” ⁠Zakharova said
  • “We stand in solidarity with China’s position”

MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that its was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland, and said the crisis over the territory showed the inconsistency of the West’s implementation of the ⁠so-called “rules-based” order.
“First they came up with the idea that there were some aggressors, and then that they were ready to protect ⁠someone from these aggressors,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said of the West’s actions on Greenland.
The current situation, she said, “demonstrates with particular acuteness the inconsistency of the so-called ‘rules-based world order’ being built by the West,” ⁠Zakharova said.
“We stand in solidarity with China’s position on the unacceptability of references to certain activity of Russia and China around Greenland as a reason for the current escalation,” Zakharova said.