The world’s population hit the eight billion mark on Tuesday when a baby girl was born in the Philippines.
The newborn, named Vinice Mabansag, was born at 1.29 a.m. (local time) on Nov. 15 at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Tondo, Manila, local media GMA News reported.
Her birth was announced by the Philippines’ Commission on Population and Development on Facebook alongside photos of the child with her mother, welcoming Vinice as the world’s “symbolic eighth billionth baby.”
“We just witnessed the world’s eighth billionth baby in the Philippines,” Dr. Romeo Bituin, the hospital’s chief medical professional staff, told GMA News….