Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday, August 4, asked the Philippine National Police to "take a second look" on its plan to prohibit fetching of authorized persons outside of residence (APOR) to and from their workplaces during the hard lockdown in Metro Manila from August 6 to 20. (Mark...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Wednesday, August 4, proposed to the government to use the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) assistance program for displaced workers to augment the ranks of contact tracers amid the threat of the Delta coronavirus variant. Members of the Philippine National...
COVID-19 VIRUS ILLUSTRATION/FILE PHOTO The presence of the Delta coronavirus variant has already been seen in nine out of the 17 regions of the country, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said. “We have detected local cases of Delta in nine regions,” said DOH Epidemiology Bureau...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año is calling for unity in the fight against the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) Delta variant, saying the strength that comes from a unity and cooperation of the people is the best way to defeat the deadly virus. In a...
Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III announced the imposition of granular lockdown in several areas in Pateros due to the sharp increase in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the municipality. “You know, our COVID-19 positive cases are very high. To date, we have 197 positives and based on our...
To achieve Malacañang’s goal to make the reimposition of a two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila the country’s “last ever lockdown,” Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday, August 4, offered to help and made several recommendations. Vice President Leni Robredo...
The San Juan City local government started on Wednesday, August 4, its house to house vaccination of bedridden citizens to protect them against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo from Mayor Francis Zamora's Facebook Live) San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora witnesses the inoculation of the...
"It's a race to the unvaccinated." This was how Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion described the importance of the upcoming shift of Metro Manila to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), saying the two-week period will allow the government to get to the unvaccinated first...
It's a tall order, but it will be done. MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos gave this assurance to National Capital Region (NCR) residents Wednesday, Aug. 4 during Go Negosyo's virtual town hall...
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said the private sector made the right decision in suggesting placing the National Capital Region (NCR) under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) as something "more challenging" will face the country if the government did not decide to...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, August 3, police units and offices to run after those would be identified engaging in hoarding of oxygen tanks and other medical supplies amid the continuing threat of COVID-19, especially its Delta...
Malacañang has ordered government offices in the National Capital Region (NCR) to have at least 20 percent of their workers on-site during the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period in the region. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the pandemic task force members...
