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Los Angeles (AFP) - Typhoon Mawar was moving away from Guam on Thursday, prompting the governor of the US territory to declare the island had "weathered the storm." Forecasters said the typhoon had blasted Guam with winds of 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour) on Wednesday when the eye of the storm passed just north of the island. Mawar was now heading towards the Philippines and Taiwan, packing stronger winds of 150 mph, the US National Weather Service said. "We now continue to focus our efforts on repairing infrastructure and restoring services to residents," Governor Lou Leon Guerr...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Typhoon Mawar made a slow and brutal pass over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, knocking out power as ferocious winds smashed windows and storm surges flooded buildings in the worst storm to hit the Pacific military outpost in decades. People on the remote speck of America hunkered down as the eye of the storm passed just north of the island with winds gusting at up to 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour. Electricity to most of the island of some 170,000 people was knocked out, the Guam Power Authority said, and it was too risky for repairs crews to venture out, leavi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Typhoon Mawar, packing potentially catastrophic winds, was on Wednesday heading for a direct hit on Guam, a US territory in the Pacific that is home to a crucial military outpost. A National Weather Service report said Mawar was intensifying into a Category Four super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour). "I am worried for the safety of our people. This is the first storm of this magnitude for 20 years," Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said. On its current trajectory, Mawar will pass directly over the island of 170,000 people,...
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Hagatna (Guam) (AFP) - The US Pacific territory of Guam has suspended a programme allowing international visitors to receive a Covid-19 vaccination while enjoying a tropical holiday due to a surge in virus cases. The Guam Visitors Bureau this week halted the "Air V&V" -- vacation and vaccination -- scheme, launched in July in a bid to restart the island's pandemic-devastated tourism industry. Infection numbers that once made Guam an attractive destination have exploded with an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant, with 910 confirmed cases in the past week. Health experts have rul...
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Taipei (AFP) - Hundreds of Taiwanese people eager to get a coronavirus vaccine have booked tours to Guam after the US Pacific territory offered jabs to foreign visitors, a travel agency said Friday. Tiny Guam, for which tourism is a major economic driver, has limited Covid-19 infections and a high vaccination rate among the local population. Dubbed "Air V&V" -- vacation and vaccination -- the new programme is primarily aimed at US expatriates in the Asia-Pacific region, although other nationalities can join. Participants can choose between the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. ...
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Hagatna (Guam) (AFP) - The US Pacific territory of Guam will offer visitors a Covid-19 vaccination with their tropical holiday, in a bid to restart its struggling tourism industry. Dubbed 'Air V&V' -- vacation and vaccination -- the programme is primarily aimed at US expatriates in the Asia-Pacific region, although other nationalities can participate. Guam has limited Covid-19 infections and a high vaccination rate among the local population thanks to one of the most effective roll-outs in the region. And that makes the island an attractive destination for vaccine tourists, said Visitors Burea...
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