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Residents rush to buy food and other basic necessities Monday, August 3 after President Duterte reverted Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal to a stricter modified enhanced community quarantine starting 12:01a.m of August 4.

A motorcycle rider in fatigue uniform cruises along Juan Luna st in Tondo, Manila Monday without an acrylic barrier between him and his pillion required by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious diseases (IATF-EID). The motorcycle barrier policy took effect August 1, 2020.

Members of the PNP Highway Patrol Group and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) flag pillion riders on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City Saturday to check for compliance of barriers required by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)

“The threat of hunger is as real as the threat of Covid-19, ” the  Department of Agriculture (DA) said a month into the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) when the limited movement of agricultural workers resulted in problems in harvesting and transporting goods, wastage of crops and loss of income — and a growing fear of shortage in city centers. Thats on top of the pre-existing challenges presented by natural disasters, changing weather patterns and various forms of pests. 

Data privacy advocates in the public and private sectors, including those from the manufacturing, banking and BPO industries, have expressed full support for President Duterte’s call for safer e-commerce and e-governance spaces in his fifth State of the Nation Address last Monday. 

Mayor Francis Zamora led the opening of the temporary relocation site at the San Juan Plaza earlier today, July 29, for vendors affected by the Agora Market renovation.

These are scenes at every LRT-1 station at the end of the day as commuters endure the long lines to get home after a day’s work due to limited transportation and physical distancing measures being implemented by rail authorities that limit the entry of passengers

Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) delivered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test kits donated by SD BIOSENSOR to the Department of Health (DOH) in a ceremony held at the Department of Foreign Affairs Monday, July 27.

Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso has signed an ordinance realigning ₱40 million of the city’s budget to purchase more medical equipment and supplies to strengthen the city’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mass-testing efforts. Ordinance No. 8657 authorizes a budgetary realignment to cover COVID-19-related expenses of the city government.

In light of current public health concerns, the 2020 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting of the House of Investments will be held online via livestreaming on August 17, 2020. Voting will be conducted via remote communication or in absentia through online voting.

International Care Ministries delivers 14 million meals and 100 million seeds to ultra-poor families struggling with hunger caused by COVID-19 lockdown

Here are the latest on President Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address to be held at the Batasang Pambansa Complex today, July 27:

The renovation of Lagusnilad Underpass that connects Manila City hall and Intramuros is still in the works but it is progressing beautifully. Vertical gardens decorate the walls which were once filled with graffiti. Fresh air now pervades the tube instead of the humid, rancid smell of human activity.Warm lights now illumine the dimly-lit passage. Gone, too are the beggars and street dwellers that made the underpass their home.

These street waifs seem to enjoy the adventure as they hang precariously at the back of a passing truck on Jose Abad Santos Avenue in Manila Friday unmindful of the danger.

Motorists line up their vehicles along Taft avenue causing heavy traffic to avail of Manila City’s free drive-thru COVID-19 testing in front of the Andres Bonifacio monument near city hall. Personnel from the Manila Health Department collects blood samples that will be processed by the three newly-purchased COVID-19 serology testing machines. Another drive-thru testing center will soon be opened at the Quirino Grandstand.

A fire broke out in Baseco compound in Port area, Manila on Thursday afternoon (July 16).

Fishermen arrange freshly caught fish from the waters of Laguna de Bay at the Binangonan fish port for distribution to nearby markets.