The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced that fully vaccinated passengers from 57 countries considered as low risk by health authorities are entitled to a shorter quarantine period of seven days upon their arrival in the Philippines. Vials of COVID-19 vaccines. (Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA...
Healthcare workers The P9 billion special risk allowance (SRA) for healthcare workers has already been distributed to the regional offices of the Department of Health (DOH), the agency’s spokesperson said on Tuesday, June 29. “Iyong perang binigay sa atin ng DBM (Department of Budget and...
More local government units in the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) Region are expected to benefit from the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) newly developed health index and vulnerability reduction system under its disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will launch on Tuesday, June 29, its coffee table book that highlights community resilience amid disasters and calamities. (DSWD Facebook Page) “The DSWD, through the Disaster Response Management Bureau, is inviting everyone to the digital...
Dogs coming from the Philippines and dozens of other countries from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean have been temporarily banned from entering the United States due to “high risk for dog rabies." (ELEONORE SENS / AFPTV / AFP) The United States...
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said on Tuesday, June 15, that the government will “recalibrate” and prioritize the distribution of more COVID-19 vaccines to areas under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), the Philippines’ second strictest lockdown level. Cabinet Secretary...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said there is no need to alter or revise the Currency Risk Protection Program (CRPP) which allow banks to hedge their eligible foreign currency obligations. “We have not seen the need to further update or expand the hedging facility...
Governments must make data-driven decisions to allow tested or vaccinated persons to travel while avoiding quarantine measures for the rest, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged. IATA teamed-up with Airbus and Boeing to develop data-driven risk-management models to keep...
The country's health frontliners attending to coronavirus patients will continue to receive a special risk allowance from the government. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) President Duterte has signed Administrative Order No. 42 authorizing the continued grant of COVID-19 Special...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The recent hard lockdown has again disrupted business and economic activities in Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, and Rizal. These are the country’s major economic hubs, and disruptions in these areas impact heavily on the goal of...
As a result of the government’s decision to regulate the issuance of import permits on rice, the Philippines will now end the year with slightly lower imports of the staple. Despite this, the country is still poised to retain its status as the world’s top rice importer. In its latest report on...
The Philippines and Hungary signed three memorandum of understanding and agreed to push further bilateral economic relations with targeted sectors for cooperation, particularly startups, at the recent Second Session of the Philippine-Hungarian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation held in Makati...
