The use of quarantine passes will be implemented anew in Manila as the National Capital Region (NCR) will be under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) again starting August 6 until August 20. The Manila Barangay Bureau (MBB) ordered all the barangay officials to issue quarantine passes to their...
President Duterte urged Congress to pass two new laws that will benefit government troops as he looked back at how he improved the capability of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to help them carry out their duties to the public. President Duterte...
ROME, Italy -- The COVID Green Pass will be mandatory to enter restaurants, cafes and other eateries in Italy starting from Aug. 6, the government announced Thursday. The decision came after Prime Minister Mario Draghi's cabinet reviewed the key anti-pandemic rules late on Thursday, strengthening...
PasigPass, Pasig City's contact tracing application, as well as the contact tracing applications of three other cities, can now be used in the province of Taytay, Rizal, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto announced on Friday. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto This after the contact tracing application of...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Yes, travel outside of the NCR-Plus is now allowed but it cannot be a spontaneous act. A lot of preparation is needed to get all the travel documents together, which will depend on the requirements set by the local government unit (LGU) of your destination. We recently drove to...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has asked government stakeholders and the private sector to prepare for the “next normal,” specifically to give the vaccinated population “greater mobility” by allowing them to travel without quarantine restrictions and RT-PCR...
The government is not in a rush to seek the passage of a third stimulus package for the coronavirus response and recovery efforts since it was still spending the existing budget. Las Piñas City residents wait for their turn at a COVID vaccination site inside a mall on May 30, 2021. (Ali...
Vaccine cards could be a step closer to reopening the economy as safe and fast as possible. As more Filipinos are getting vaccinated, business leaders have proposed the establishment of a unified vaccine pass system in digital form to promote safe and greater mobility in the country. According to...
Over 1.2 million travelers have registered at the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) online travel management system or Safe, Swift and Smart Passage (S-PaSS). S-PaSS (from DOST) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said as of May 26, there has been a total of 1,250,336...
The Metro Manila Council (MMC) said it is not yet the right time to implement a vaccine pass policy that will only allow fully vaccinated individuals to enter indoor establishments. (BLOOMBERG) MMC Chairman and Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the policy will be “unfair” given that only few...
Unimplementable, discriminatory. That's how a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) official described proposals to require customers to present a "vaccine pass" before they are allowed entry to a business establishment. Essentially, a vaccine pass is proof that the person holding it has received...
The Department of Health (DOH) said it is not recommending the proposal to issue a “vaccine pass” to fully vaccinated individuals for them to have access to indoor establishments. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (Photo from PCOO/ Manila Bulletin File Photo) "Hindi po kami sang-ayon sa...
