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A party-list lawmaker asked Congress to expedite the passage of a measure that would create a globally recognized national vaccination passport for Filipinos fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Ang Probinsyano Party-list Representative Ronnie Ong made the appeal after reports that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were denied entry in Hong Kong because immigration authorities […]
A House leader on Monday thanked his colleagues in the Committee on Ways and Means for supporting proposals to establish a national health center that specializes in the care of senior citizens––something that is long overdue given the growing number of the elderly in the country––and for approving tax exemption provisions involving the said institution. […]
When it comes to government officials, it is one’s performance in the present that matters, not one’s past. This according to Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr., who on Friday said that “leaders in government should be held accountable for their actions today––not what they did years ago––especially when it comes to dealing with the COVID-19 […]
Given the 2.5%-contraction of agriculture in the year’s first semester–the biggest output decline in five years–Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called on the Duterte administration to invest bigtime in “mega farms” across the country to attain food security even at this time of the pandemic and finally transform this underperforming yet resources-rich sector into […]
“Tinanggalan na ng pasada, pinagkaitan pa ng ayuda.” Senator Nancy Binay expressed disappointment by the lack of government effort to seriously fast track the implementation of the Service Contracting Program for public utility drivers. “Mahigit nang isang taong pinagkaitan ng ayuda ang mga kapatid nating mga namamasada. The DOTr and the LTFRB are invisible, and […]
The Department of Tourism’s vaccination program for tourism workers continued with the vaccine rollout of 2,000 anti-COVID doses covering both first and second dose of 1,000 active tourism frontliners at the city of San Fernando, Pampanga. The Department’s Region 3 office and the provincial government of Pampanga partnered with SM Pampanga to conduct the vaccine rollout, […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) asked the local government units in Metro Manila to work together in inoculating all residents in the National Capital Region as some cities have finished their vaccination in their respective areas. As some LGUs in Metro Manila like Mandaluyong, San Juan and Pateros have hit more than 100 percent […]
The city government of Bacolod kicked off its “VAX-i” mobile vaccination campaign in the three major public markets on Friday to make coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) jabs more accessible to residents. Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the “VAX-i” is part of his administration’s commitment to inoculate as many people as possible, especially those coming from the […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has re-intensified its isolation facilities in preparation for the COVID-19 surge as the Department of Health (DOH) recorded more than 8,000 new cases recently. PRC had previously turned unused classrooms at Ateneo, UP, Benilde, and Makati Science High school into isolation facilities in response to the COVID-19 surge that happened […]
More than 70% of tourism frontliners in Metro Manila working in DOT-accredited quarantine facilities, isolation facilities, multiple-use hotels, and staycation hotels, under the A1 and A4 vaccination groups have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat reported. A total of 19,315 out of 26,745 or 72% of tourism frontliners from the 16 cities and […]