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The Philippines has discovered its first two cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in India, its health ministry has announced as the new cases fall to a near eight-week low.
The cases confirmed in two Filipino seafarers who returned in April, Reuters reports that Alethea De Guzman, director of the ministry’s epidemiology bureau, told a news conference on Tuesday. They were both isolated and both have since recovered, she said.
Activists have blockaded the entrance to AstraZeneca’s headquarters in a call on the company to waive its Covid vaccine patent.
Two protesters chained themselves to the doors to the company’s Cambridge site, while two others climbed above to hang a banner over the entrance reading: “People’s vaccine not profit vaccine. #JoinCTAP.”
Protesters have blockaded @AstraZeneca’s cambridge hq to call for the company to waive the patent for its #coronavirus vaccine #PeoplesVaccine pic.twitter.com/Nd26h51CCB
Two protesters have climbed above the entrance to the @AstraZeneca hq and two more are chained to the doors to stop people getting in. The action comes on the day of the company’s AGM. pic.twitter.com/Q7V5SplDCi
“They could be deciding today to start profiting [from the vaccine] as thousands of people die everyday in India.”
‘Coati’ explains why he’s chained to the door at @AstraZeneca’s headquarters. pic.twitter.com/XLFhz5LpA7
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