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Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said the guidelines jointly issued by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) allowing the private sector to operate during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and general community quarantine (GCQ) will manage the risks of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission even as it opens […]
Learning from home. This is the “new normal” that Senator Win Gatchalian sees for school year (SY) 2020-2021 that will ensure the safety and continued education of the country’s more than 27 million learners amid the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and […]
Amid the need for at least 13 percent of Metro Manila’s population to be tested for the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 in order to contain the spread of the disease more effectively, Senator Dick Gordon commended local government units (LGUs) that are already testing their constituents. Several LGUs in the National Capital Region (NCR) […]
With community-based testing centers for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in each of its six districts in place, the Quezon City government anticipates an increase in the number of cases of the dreaded coronavirus disease. “Testing is a key part of the local government’s campaign of identifying, isolating and treating COVID-19 positive patients, while preventing its […]
A total of P365 million in electricity charges will be subsidized by 121 electric cooperatives (EC) in the Pantawid Liwanag Program. According to Rodrigo Sacedor, chairperson of the National Center of Electric Cooperatives Consumers, Inc. (NCECCO), this will hold the record for the ECs as they go all out to help over 3 million consumers […]
A total of 155,672 employees from 4,290 tourism-related enterprises affected by the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis have received their cash assistance under the Small Business Wage Subsidy (SBSW) program of the Department of Finance (DOF), Social Security System (SSS), and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) as of May 4. Since March, the […]
In a renewed call to expedite the delivery of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) nationwide, Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the government to use the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Law to ensure a faster and easier identification of SAP beneficiaries. The CBMS Law, which Gatchalian had co-authored, is a monitoring system that gathers information on […]
The Senate has adopted a resolution declaring October 26 and April 20 of every year as bloodletting drive days in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross in honor of former Senator Heherson Alvarez who died of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Senator Dick Gordon, who introduced and sponsored Senate Resolution 390, said Alvarez’s daughter Herxila […]
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte announced today she has joined the Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities Global Leadership Series, a weekly virtual convening of city leaders from around the world who are mobilizing their municipalities to respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Each week, mayors and public health officials come together to hear […]
31 personnel of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have completed their 14-day quarantine as part of the precautionary measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The 31 MMDA personnel went into quarantine on April 18 after being exposed to a person who showed symptoms of COVID-19. Placed under quarantine were personnel […]