In a move that will make the quarantine process less tedious for returning overseas Filipinos (ROF), the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has allowed quarantine hotels to function, too, as isolation facilities for those who will test positive for the...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is currently looking at other hotels that are allegedly offering "absentee quarantine" packages, after two returning overseas Filipinos were able to skip the mandatory isolation. (FILE PHOTO) Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said the Department has so far...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday, Jan 3, to conduct random visits in quarantine hotels in the wake of reports that some hotels offer “absentee-quarantine” arrangements to Filipinos returning to the country. The...
Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), engaged in a verbal tussle with Bacoor, Cavite Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla over the supposed non-release of funds for the...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has achieved another unfortunate milestone in terms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic's impact on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Returning OFWs being interviewed at NAIA. (Ariel Fernandez/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) DOLE Information...
A Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) official has asked for the understanding of quarantine hotels that have been waiting on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) payments in connection with the services they rendered to repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid the...
President Duterte has given the Department of Health (DOH) until Thursday to assess the different testing and quarantine protocols being implemented by the province of Cebu. President Duterte delivers a public address on May 31, 2021. (Malacañang) The President issued the directive to the health...
The government is moving to increase the availability of quarantine hotels and other facilities in Cebu once its airport would temporarily stop accepting international flights starting this Saturday, May 29. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2. (Photo by Juan Carlo de Vela/ MANILA...
