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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the agency largely involved in the construction of temporary treatment and monitoring facilities nationwide will put up more off-site hospitals to cater the increasing number of people suffering from virus infection. DPWH Secretary and Chief Isolation Czar Mark Villar said that capacity expansion of major hospitals are ongoing […]
Marry now, have your reception with family and friends next year. This is the piece of advice of Mayor Myca Elizabeth Vergara to couples as the nation continues to battle the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “Dun sa mga ikakasal po, ikasal na lang kayo ng sampu kayo, tapos next year, dun na lang kayo […]
Senator Joel Villanueva welcomed the inclusion of media workers in the government’s revised priority list of essential workers up for vaccination, but he maintained that vaccine supply should be assured as well. “This updated priority list of essential workers is good news,” said Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee. “Those who keep the public […]
As preparations continue for the rollout of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), Senator Grace Poe urged the concerned agencies to use the platform to expand financial inclusion in the country. “In addition to identifying the legally invisible, we can use the national ID to reach out to the unbanked,” said Poe, who chairs the Senate committee […]
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 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 […]
If the government wants to relax quarantine restrictions further and inject life back to the sputtering economy, then it must speed up the vaccination of essential workers in Mega Manila, which accounts for about two-thirds of the country’s economic output, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Kung nais pong ipagpatuloy ang pagluluwag ng lockdown sa ‘NCR Plus,’ […]
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 […]
Rising infections prompted local officials in Laoag City to convert another evacuation center in Barangay Cabungaan as additional isolation rooms for mild and asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Laoag Mayor Michael Keon said that the COVID-19 situation is getting out of hand and the city government is doing its best to isolate […]
A lawmaker urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to shift to a more targeted approach of household lockdowns to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Marikina City Representative Stella Quimbo said implementing variations of community quarantines covering a wide area, such as an enhanced community quarantine […]