A fire broke out at a commercial building in Don Mariano St Barangay Batasan, Quezon City on Monday morning. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Public Information Office, the fire reached 1st alarm at around 2:13 a.m. and was declared under control at around 4:50 a.m. (Photo courtesy...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and Task Force Disiplina on Sunday (August 8) are monitoring the situation at the Araneta Coliseum after people without appointments swarmed the vaccination site. According to a report from DZBB, people flocked to Araneta Coliseum after news circulated online...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has directed two barangay executives in Quezon City to explain their reported requirement of vaccination cards from their constituents asking for quarantine passes amid the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. ARTA orders 2 Quezon City...
The chairman of Barangay Central in Quezon City has decried the action done by a resident, who uploaded a video of a barangay officer asserting that no quarantine pass would be issued to those who are not yet vaccinated. Rosa Magpayo, head of Barangay Central, said in a statement Saturday that what...
The Quezon City government has clarified that residents do not need to be vaccinated first before being qualified to get a quarantine pass. It made the statement Friday night after an officer of Barangay Central said in a now viral video that residents getting quarantine passes should be inoculated...
The Quezon City government has already vaccinated more than half of its target 1.7 million individuals against COVID-19. This came after 1,015,256 residents and workers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine while 597,517, including those who got the single-dose Johnson & Johnson's...
Another barangay in Quezon City is requiring its residents to be vaccinated first against COVID-19 before they are issued their quarantine passes. A video posted on Twitter by a Barangay Central resident, who requested anonymity, showed a female barangay officer telling the constituents that they...
The Quezon City government has passed a measure imposing jail time and fine on those who will commit illegal acts related to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Under Ordinance No. SP-3032 S-2021, penalties await people who will be caught to be behind the fraudulent sale, distribution...
The Quezon City government’s COVID-19 vaccination drive is expected to reach the 1 million mark on Thursday, August 5 . “By tomorrow we would have hit already 1 million persons, 1 million persons in Quezon City would have already received at least one dose,” Mayor Joy Belmonte said in a...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Wednesday said COVID cases in the city have gone up to 95 percent.
“In a span of two weeks' time, the number of cases has gone up to 95 percent dito po sa Quezon city, and this is with testing, tracing, and isolation,” Belmonte said in a virtual conference....
A 36-year-old homeless man was pinned to death by an oncoming bus along the EDSA Carousel in Quezon City Tuesday morning. Juano Suarez, a “taong hamog” or a homeless person, was found dead underneath the leftmost tire at the back portion of Jell Trans Inc. bus around 8 a.m., the Inter-Agency...
Women's advocate and Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte believed empowering women by giving them training, skills, and capital is one of the solutions to hunger in the family amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. According to Belmonte, when a mother has the capacity to set up her own business and earn by...
