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Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has called on the national government to declare March 15 as “Frontliners’ Day”.

For Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion, the plunge in new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to just 1,591 cases last Nov.3 is vindication for his controversial call for an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila last August.

The government’s task force against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has released its updated quarantine classification list for areas in the country that are not covered by the new Alert Level System (ALS).

The Philippines’s food service sector is expected to shrink further this year to $7.4 billion following a 44 percent fall in 2020, on the weight of the spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant as well as the government’s abrupt implementation of different quarantine restrictions.

The distribution of assistance given by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to Batanes will push through after the the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) is lifted around the first week of October.

State-run Social Security System (SSS) has extended the payment deadline for July contributions of regular employers due to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque told Malacañang-beat reporters Tuesday, Sept. 14 to “refrain from asking for reactions”.

Amid criticisms over so many lockdown names, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Monday, September 13, that he will recommend the use of just two classifications in containing the movement of the people as part of the effort in fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The government’s changing quarantine classifications and labels are very confusing, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, September 12, noting that small businesses are the ones suffering the most from it.

The Quezon City government has started distributing the P2,000 aid to over 28,000 workers who were displaced during the reimposition of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) from Aug. 6 to 20.

Whatever happened to Mr. #KalmaAkoLangTo?

Opposition congressmen on Friday, Sept. 11 chided presidential spokesman Harry Roque for berating doctors on the controversy surrounding government’s alleged indecisiveness on community quarantine impositions.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque explained his side on his now viral outburst during last Tuesday’s Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) meeting, saying he just took up the cudgels for “hungry and lockdown-weary” Filipinos.

With the rising number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, the government’s pandemic task force has “provisionally” approved the guidelines on the pilot implementation of the new alert levels system in the National Capital Region (NCR) that is targeted to be implemented from September 16 to 30, 2021.

Several parishes in Metro Manila maintained the suspension of public Masses as the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) deferred its decision to pilot general community quarantine (GCQ) with granular lockdowns.

An appeal in behalf of sports clubs, country clubs, and golf clubs, which are safer than government and private offices, construction companies, BPOs, and manufacturers, where the work environment is often enclosed.

The Muntinlupa City government is nearing completion in the distribution of the national government’s “ayuda,” or financial assistance, that was allotted to people in Metro Manila affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from Aug. 6 to 20.

Although she agrees with the government’s decision to impose granular lockdowns instead of community quarantine in areas with a high number of coronavirus cases, Vice President Leni Robredo highlighted the need for intensified testing, tracing, and isolation.