The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will temporarily suspend the operations of its consular offices in Metro Manila when the capital region reverts to a two-week strict lockdown in August. Department of Foreign Affairs (via DFA website) The foreign affairs department however will have limited...
The vaccination program in the National Capital Region (NCR) will not be stopped despite the enforcement of a two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to 20 to prevent a Delta-driven spike of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Retired Major Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr.,...
A women's group prodded the national government to conduct mass testing during the two-week lockdown in Metro Manila. (ALI VICOY / MB FILE PHOTO) In a statement, Gabriela said the "heavy militaristic approach will just fail just like last year" and urged the government instead to conduct "effective...
Members of the Senate are considering suspending plenary sessions in light of the reimposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila from August 6 to 20. Senate of the Philippines' plenary hall (Senate PRIB) Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri disclosed that the chamber...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), to start the necessary preparations for the full implementation of the stricter rules under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. This, as...
HOTSPOT People have a lot of questions about the government’s Friday announcement that Metro Manila would again be placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine from August 6 to 20. ECQ is the toughest and most painful type of quarantine since 2020, and thus not easy to forget. We don’t want a...
A university-based research group first broached the idea of a “circuit-breaker lockdown” against the Delta variant that is known to be “more transmissible, potentially deadlier, and can spread quickly faster.” The Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship, speaking on behalf of the private...
While the government is yet to release guidelines on public mobility in connection with the impending reimposition of an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said it will recommend that the current supply and capacity of public transport be...
Metro Manila mayors are meeting tonight to discuss various protocols that will be implemented during the reimposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces starting August 6. Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco bared this, adding that the...
Three more dioceses in Metro Manila have suspended their public masses. Photo courtesy Diocese of Novaliches The Dioceses of Cubao, Novaliches, and Paranaque announced the suspension of public masses in all their parishes and chapels from July 31 to August 20 in separate posts on Facebook Friday,...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) A health reform advocate has urged to government to boost coronavirus testing, contact tracing, and vaccination in Metro Manila as the region will go into another round of lockdown due to the threat of the Delta variant. “While we are on ECQ (Enhance...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday, July 30, said the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) will have an impact on the ongoing voter registration for the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB "The return of NCR to a state of ECQ will...
