The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) assured on Tuesday, Sept. 14, that government assistance will be provided immediately to the families that would be affected by the two-week granular lockdowns with Alert Level 4 being imposed in Metro Manila on Sept. 16. DILG...
UPDATED: October 1, 2021 Follow the author on Twitter: @argyllcyrus_MB The government's pandemic task force has finally issued the guidelines on the pilot implementation of the Alert Levels System for coronavirus (COVID-19) response in Metro Manila in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus and...
Former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay slammed the national government's “granular lockdown experiment in Metro Manila,” describing the policy as “counter-intuitive.” Former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay Binay underscored that in other countries, granular lockdowns are...
The power to implement granular lockdowns on the streets and small communities hit with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under the "critical zones" parameters will be delegated to the local government units (LGUs), Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said on Monday, Sept. 13. Manila police used a...
An official from the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) called on the national government to implement a more targeted contact tracing during the implementation of granular lockdowns in Metro Manila. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) "More mobility means higher chance of people getting the virus, higher...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion underscored on Monday, Sept. 13 the high stakes in finding a way to "live with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)", which would in turn allow the resumption of economic activity. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship...
The implementation of the new alert system for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) should be taken by the public as simplified restrictions aimed at preventing confusion on the health and safety protocols. In an interview over GMA News, DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said that the...
Granular lockdowns and alert level restrictions should not be confused with each other as they are totally different systems aimed at slowing down the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) transmission, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Epimaco Densing III said on...
President Duterte explained that the initially planned pilot implementation of the new granular lockdowns system in the National Capital Region (NCR) was deferred because it lacked specific guidelines that would cover possible contingencies. File photos Duterte made the statement after the...
Whatever happened to Mr. #KalmaAkoLangTo? Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque explains the reason for his outburst during a virtual press briefing Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 (Screenshot from Facebook live) That's Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque's favorite hashtag, the one he uses at the end of...
A policy shift that uses "alert level" restrictions is expected to be enforced in the National Capital Region (NCR) starting Sept. 16 to 30, according to an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) DILG Undersecretary Epimaco Densing (File photo via Densing's Facebook...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque doesn't think Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso was alluding to him when the latter made comments about a "disrespectful" govenrment official that ought to be sacked. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (left) and Manila Mayor Isko Moreno (File...
