Makati CBD skyline The Department of Health (DOH) is currently cold on the idea of lifting the country’s state of calamity status due to Covid-19 pandemic as several factors need to be considered first. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the lifting of the state of calamity is...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said there was no need for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to send a response team to Sri Lanka amid an ongoing economic crisis there but stressed that the DFA is ready to respond to the needs of Filipinos abroad. Anti-government demonstrators...
The Philippines has recorded its first two cases of another Omicron subvariant called BA.5, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the two cases were from Central Luzon. Vergeire said that both cases have "unknown exposure” as they did not have...
Helping students in their shift to remote learning, the Resilient Education Information Infrastructure for the New Normal (REIINN) project has started construction of the first LokaLTE in San Andres Elementary School, Tanay, Rizal. DOST Provincial Director Fernando Ablaza (from left), REIINN...
To provide a strategic roadmap to improve the delivery and quality of basic education, the Department of Education (DepEd) on June 3, Friday, launched the Basic Education Development Plan 2030 (BEDP 2030). (Image courtesy of DepEd) “BEDP is part of the administration’s efforts to ensure that...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) said that there is "little to no risk" that the virus that causes an illness called Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) can enter the country at this point in time. “The DOH sees little to no risk of the virus entering Philippine borders,” the state health...
DOH There remains no indication of a community transmission of the Omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1 and BA.4 in the country as of this time, the Department of Health (DOH) said. At present, the DOH has confirmed a total of 22 cases BA.2.12.1 and one case of BA.4 in the Philippines. The DOH only...
The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Office III to ensure the supply and delivery of 10,000 packs of Bio N in Region III. Photo from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)...
The Philippines and the Republic of Korea signed an agreement to boost the Philippines' fishery exports to the East Asian country. Photo from the Department of Agriculture The South Korean Embassy in the Philippines announced this after the two countries signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA)...
As part of the government's solid-waste management and flood control efforts, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has turned over the Automatic Trash Rake (ATR) technology to the City of Malabon. The Department of...
It is the first genetically modified rice variety developed to address a specific nutrition issue such as vitamin A deficiency (VAD). * Vitamin A is an essential micronutrient for growth, development, and keeping the body’s visual and immune systems healthy. The Filipino diet lacks vitamin A,...
With talks on renewable energy in the air, the country’s first-ever wind turbine research, development and testing laboratory has recently been launched by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) together with the Central Philippine University (CPU) in Iloilo City. The wind tunnel in the...
