The Filipino-Chinese business community in Bacolod City has sponsored a five-day coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rollout to inoculate more than 1,000 workers and their family members. Dubbed “Operation Bakuna Center”, the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc. (FFCCCII)-led initiative marked its Day 3 at the St. John’s Institute Activity Center vaccination […]
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The Department of Tourism (DOT) welcomed the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to allow children, aged five years old and above, and fully vaccinated seniors to visit outdoor areas. This is on the condition that the children are supervised by adults and that everyone adheres to […]
In an effort to ramp-up available facilities for isolation of COVID-19 infected persons in Western Mindanao, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed the conversion of the old Zamboanga Convention Center in Pasonanca, Zamboanga City. DPWH Secretary Mark Villar announced that the newly-converted Convention Center into a mega-quarantine facility with 188 beds will […]
The city government of San Juan announced that it has vaccinated more than 100 percent of its target population against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), drawing it nearer toward the goal of population protection by August. Mayor Francis Zamora said 96,610 residents and city-based workers have received at least the first dose, or about 80 […]
The significant drop in the number of families that experienced involuntary hunger in the National Capital Region (NCR) is an indicator that safely resuming economic activity can help families earn enough income in order to ensure that they have enough to eat––and should be replicated in other parts of the country to help prevent hunger. […]
The chair of the House Ways and Means Committee lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for ordering the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to include the Virology Institute of the Philippines (VIP) in the President’s budget proposal for 2022. Albay Representative Joey Salceda said Duterte’s prioritization of the VIP in the national budget will help ensure […]
Remember when everyone in the world was at the edge of the seat waiting for vaccines? Remember that time when we were confined in our homes and are unable to go to places or dine in our favorite restaurants and coffee places? Those days will soon be over, and you will be the most significant […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles took time to highlight the government’s agriculture and nutrition programs in the Zamboanga Peninsula at the time of the pandemic during the 12th holding of the Pamana: Regional Pre-SONA Series at Zamboanga City last July 8, 2021. During the event, the Cabinet Secretary was joined by PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar, CORDS for Region […]
Zumba by the beach is the fun way the municipality of Concepcion in Iloilo is boosting the immunity of its residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are quarantined in a beach resort turned off-site Isolation Facility (IF) in Malangabang Island. The municipality located in the northern part of Iloilo has 211 active cases: […]
Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat and National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and testing czar Vince Dizon led the ceremonial vaccination of tourism workers in Boracay Island recently. Romulo-Puyat said that the inoculation program targets an initial 3,000 tourism workers. Of this number, 2,178 are employed in accommodation establishments, 308 in restaurants, and […]