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Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said a gradual lifting of enhanced community quarantine will be recommended to the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to ensure that the new norm of social distancing will be observed. During the Laging Handa briefing, Lopez said lifting the community quarantine gradually will allow essential businesses and their […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) gave the electric cooperatives (ECs) clearance to secure short-term loans from other financial institutions to mitigate the economic effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on their commercial operations. NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong recently issued Memorandum No. 2020-015, allowing the 121 ECs to avail of short-term loans from banks and […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said the government has failed to mention how it intends to help drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) who are also reeling from the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine enforced to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). PUV drivers are left with no choice but to stop operating while all […]
The “no mask, no entry” policy set by some supermarkets, pharmacies, and restaurants is not among the measures being enforced as part of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine, a Palace official said. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said these establishments should continue to allow customers to enter their places of business for as long as the […]