The Church is on one side, asserting its right to hold religious worship, while the government is on the other side, insisting on the need to keep people from gathering in churches.
The remaining 11 days of the two-week National Capital Region (NCR)-plus Bubble Lockdown, which would include Holy Week, could prove to be a contentious period between the Church and the State.
Stories on this contentious issue and other developments on the vaccine, and the West Philippine Sea dispute are on top of our update for this Wednesday afternoon, March 24, 2021.
- PH COVID-19 Update: 6,666 new cases, 1,072 recoveries, 47 fatalities
- Looming clash between Church and State
- The country has an average of “5,644 new daily cases for the third week of March,” which is “4.4 times higher” if compared to the start of January.
- Doses of China-donate SInovac vaccines now total one million
- DOH appeals to government officials to respect vaccine prioritization framework
- There is no available data backing up Forbes’ claim that the P.3 variant, which was first detected in the Philippines, is resistant to vaccine.
- West PH Sea dispute: China, Japan exchange barbs on social media
- Immigration chief looks into involvement of 28 of his men in human trafficking scheme that sent 44 Filipinas to war-torn Syria
- A food shed allows for the growing of a variety of crops in a multi-level structure that requires less land than an open-air farm, like the now familiar “plantito-plantita” set ups in urban areas.
- From light rains to warm and humid conditions, the country to experience varying weather conditions this weekend
- Taal Volcano update