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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos expressed his gratitude to the collaborative initiatives of the national government, through the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and local chief executives in Metro Manila, as the OCTA Research recently cited “downward trends” in coronavirus disease cases in all local government […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is distributing “sentinel” piglets in areas where there are no reported cases of the African swine fever (ASF) for at least 90 days, initially in eight regions, benefitting 8,000 small hog raisers. “The sentinelling is a prelude to the Duterte administration’s swine repopulation program to increase hog production, and subsequently […]
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has built additional COVID-19 treatment facilities at Batangas Medical Center in Batangas City. Secretary and Isolation Czar Mark Villar said that off-site hospital buildings completed by the DPWH Task Force to Facilitate Augmentation of Local/National Health Facilities together with Batangas 2nd District Engineering Office are being readied […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III disclosed that 67,347 beneficiaries from the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal, collectively known as the NCR Plus, have been approved to receive the one-time P5,000 financial assistance under the DOT-DOLE Cash-For-Work Program of the Bayanihan 2. Of […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) started the vaccination of its employees who are medical frontliners, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities to protect them from COVID-19. 200 personnel belonging to the A1, A2, and A3 on the priority of IATF were given their initial dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines. “Senior citizens and medical […]
The P38.2-million widening project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) along a section of Kabankalan-Bais Road in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental will speed up delivery of agricultural products and better travel to and from southwest portion of the city. Secretary Mark Villar, citing reports from DPWH Regional Office 6 (DPWH-RO6), explained that […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles shared the various government programs aimed at reducing hunger during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic during the first Regional Pre-SONA series held at Butuan City on Thursday, April 15, 2021, with local chief executives from the Caraga Region and officials from the national government in attendance. The Kasama sa Pamana: Regional Pre-SONA […]
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar recently announced the completion and opening of the new two-lane Natulongan Bridge in Kibawe, Bukidnon. Linking Barangay Talahiron with Barangay Magsaysay in Kibawe town, the 134.9-lineal meter bridge across Pulangi River in Sitio Kikipot, Talahiron is a much-needed connectivity infrastructure of the populace. “Prior to the implementation of […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that a temporary mobile hospital and a drive-thru vaccination site will soon rise at the Rizal Park in Manila. In a meeting held recently, the Board of Directors of the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC), an attached agency of the Department of Tourism, unanimously approved the proposal […]
The first-quarter report of the Department of Trade and Industry Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau (DTI-FTEB) showed that 94.7% of the business firms and establishments in the National Capital Region (NCR) comply with the government mandated Minimum Health Protocols (MHP). In response to the recent reverting of NCR and its nearby provinces from General Community Quarantine […]