The Department of Tourism (DOT) has reminded accommodation establishments operating as quarantine hotels to allow room sharing for certain individuals belonging in the same household who are traveling together, especially families that brought along kids. (Photo from Pixabay) This, after the DOT...
Quezon City residents who tested positive for COVID-19 will no longer be allowed to undergo isolation inside their homes. This came after Mayor Joy Belmonte passed a measure requiring the city's asymptomatic and symptomatic patients to be isolated in authorized facilities only. "We deem it...
Those residents living in areas in Visayas and Mindanao that have been placed under lockdown can count on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DSWD said Monday, July 19, that it “is ready” to augment the resources of the local government...
After detecting two cases of the more transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant in Manila, the city government ordered Monday night the barangay units to immediately transfer all COVID-19 positive patients undergoing home quarantine to the city's quarantine facilities. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso...
With super spreader events slowly turning up anew with the easing of health protocols, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año assured on Saturday, July 17, that stricter measures will be enforced to curb mass gatherings and other health and safety practice...
Since March 2020, there have been twice-a-month announcements by the government on the quarantine classification of regions, cities and towns. The Presidential Spokesman announced that an “improving” COVID-19 scenario in the National Capital Region (NCR) prompted a downgrade to normal general...
The government's pandemic task force has escalated the risk classification of Iloilo Province and Iloilo City to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) until the end of the month. The complex of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol. (Tara Yap/Manila Bulletin) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
The government has revised the list of more than 50 "green" countries or those with low risk of coronavirus amid moves to screen vaccinated travelers arriving in the Philippines. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP) The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque explained that the National Capital Region (NCR) was placed under the normal general community quarantine (GCQ) because of the local government units' (LGUs') improvement in responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Manila Bulletin File Photo Roque made the...
President Duterte has approved placing the National Capital Region (NCR) back to the normal general community quarantine (GCQ) until the end of the month, along with 29 other areas in the country as their existing coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine classification expired on July 15. In a video...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Wednesday, July 15, called on states to follow the new World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on travel which will be presented to the WHO COVID-19 International Health Regulations Emergency Committee today (July 15). iata The guidance...
Malacañang said the recommendation of the government's pandemic task force was ready and that they were only waiting for the appeal of the metropolis's local chief executives. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement days before the existing general community...
