The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) may discuss on Thursday, Feb. 17, proposals to downgrade the COVID Alert Level in Metro Manila, an ranking government official disclosed. The shift of Metro Manila to Alert Level 1 could be part of the...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is now crafting a memorandum circular instructing local government units to step up the crackdown against individuals selling fake medicines. “We will support the Food and Drug Administration through a memo circular to our LGUs to have...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government warned on Sunday, Feb. 13, that charges will be filed against erring political aspirants and their supporters who would be caught violating health protocols during the campaign period. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año maintained that campaign activity...
Top officials in charge of the policies in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will meet on Monday, Feb, 14., to discuss the new alert level status in the country, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año confirmed on Sunday, Feb. 13. Año said...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Año condemned on Saturday, Feb. 12, the New People’s Army (NPA) for the encounter in Northern Samar that led to the death of two children. Año said the communist rebels opened fire at the troop of the Philippine...
The government aims to inoculate at least six million individuals against the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) as the administration continues to ramp up its vaccination campaign with the scheduled National Vaccination days on Feb. 10 and 11. In a briefing with the President on Monday night Feb....
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año rejected on Monday, Feb. 7, proposals to suspend the alert level system with the country’s steady health situation improvement in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In an interview over DzBB, Año insisted...
The list of the unvaccinated persons in 12 of the country’s 17 regions is now with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was revealed by DILG Secretary Eduardo Año as he stressed that the list will be used to refocus the vaccination strategy to the barangays that lag...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Eduardo Año opposed on Monday, Feb. 7, the proposal of Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion to require coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) booster cards in areas with high vaccine rates for added protection against the...
Presenting parents’ or guardians’ consent before allowing the vaccination of kids aged 5 to 11 against the coronavirus disease-2019 is a “requirement.’’ This was stressed by Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año on Sunday, Feb. 6, as he expressed...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered on Saturday, Jan. 29, all local government units (LGUs) to ensure that traditional cockfighting in the cockpit arenas in areas under Alert Level 2 or lower are compliant with the existing health protocols. DILG Secretary Eduardo M....
All local government units (LGUs) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) are compelled to strictly enforce the election-related provisions imposed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) during the campaign period for the national candidates in the 2022 election starting on Feb. 8, Department of...
