Scientists on Wednesday raised the alert level for Anak Krakatoa and Tangkuban Prahu -- which regularly spew gas and rumble -- from "normal" to "warning," the middle of three alert levels.
After a week of record rises here in France in terms of the number of new coronavirus cases, two extra cities on top of the four that entered the maximum alert category on Saturday will do so from tomorrow.
France remains on its highest level of security alert as the search continues for a gunman who shot dead two people near a Christmas market in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
And the researchers say that this constant state of high alert may be why bats can carry Ebola, Nipah virus, and a whole lot of other infections with no symptoms at all.
COVID infections are up above 250 per a hundred thousand people, which means the cities hit a higher alert level and automatically new measures are going to kick in.
Philippine officials have raised the alert level for one of the country's most active volcanoes after superheated streams of gas, debris and rocks cascaded down its upper slope.