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Anticipating the temptation by people to congregate during the upcoming Holy Week, Senator and Philippine Red Cross (PRC) chairman Dick Gordon warned the public against letting their guard down. “We will likely see the number of daily COVID-19 cases go down because people will probably not be testing as much during Holy Week, but we […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should explain how an unlicensed logistics company using a defective thermometer was allowed to deliver AstraZeneca vaccines causing 7,500 doses to be returned to the Department of Health, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said. Citing the law creating the FDA (Republic Act 3720) and the law strengthening and rationalizing its regulatory […]
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is mounting another food donation drive to benefit poor communities throughout Metro Manila, as government imposes stricter measures following record number of COVID-19 cases. SMC president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang said that the food donation drive has already begun, with hundreds of boxes of canned goods already sent […]
Public Works and Highways Secretary and Chief Isolation Czar Mark Villar announced that the preparedness and response of Zamboanga City against the spread of COVID-19 infection was further boosted with the availability of an additional 20-bed isolation facility. Villar said that the newly-built Zamboanga City Quarantine Facility located in Barangay Pasonanca was constructed to augment […]
Senator Joel Villanueva urged the government to start injecting vaccines into essential workers now instead of ending up throwing away vaccines that had expired. Villanueva stressed that while health workers are on top of the priority list, other frontline workers deserve and need to be vaccinated as soon as possible, too. “Vaccination should be time-on-target […]
The head of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) on Thursday appealed to the national government (NG) to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply deliveries as he acknowledged that prioritizing Metro Manila and regions with higher COVID-19 infections may help prevent the spread of the disease to the rest of the country.According to ULAP […]
Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) to declare COVID-19 as an occupational disease so that workers can avail of insurance and other benefits that are demandable under the Employees Compensation Act and Employees Compensation Program. “Workplaces and mass transportation are the new ‘hot spots’ of […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles as Task Force Yolanda Chair, the National Housing Authority, and beneficiary local governments, led the back to back distribution of free housing units in Iloilo on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, as part of the Duterte administration’s commitment to finish all Yolanda housing construction by 2022. The two successive distribution ceremonies were […]
As the number of COVID cases continue to spike on the first year of the first COVID-caused community quarantine, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said the Department of Health to empower local governments so that they can level-up in addressing the challenges of controlling the spread of the disease. “Local governments know what’s happening on the ground, […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to move teachers up in the priority list for the COVID-19 vaccination program, adding that he supports a similar call from at least 33 education, business and medical groups who […]